The ClearView Surveillance System is a powerful quality improvement and reporting system, running on a UNIX RISC workstation, designed to enable telecommunications carriers and their most important customers to obtain: virtually error-free transmission statistical proof of network quality. The ClearView system has been in use since 1990 by carriers and large private corporate networks to predict and avoid t1/t3 outages and to provide detailed documentation of network performance. Working in collaboration with Bellcore's Network Monitoring and Analysis (NMA) system, ClearView acquires performance data from intelligent network elements, processes that data, and turns it into graphically formatted information, such as run charts, Pareto graphs, histograms, and pie charts. This information makes it easy to plan and execute effective management activities. It also automates the development of credible performance reports increasingly required by interchange carriers and major corporations.
ClearView is built on a client/server architecture and is sufficiently scalable to acquire data from over 100,000 monitoring points on a single server. Clear view's partitioning feature makes it easy to develop complete sets of reports for different customers, services, equipment vendors, and operations centers. The system's flexible graphical user interface permits multiple simultaneous users of the system; each user can be assigned appropriate feature authority restrictions as well as limitations on the portion of the network he or she is allowed to view.
ClearView effectively marries principles of Total Quality Management (TQM) and network performance management by replacing sole reliance on after-the-fact correction of problems with a predictive and preventive approach. Carriers can use ClearView to: Alert network managers to degrading performance trends which signal impending disruptions, long before critical data and voice applications are lost. Identify the few (typically, 3-5%) chronic circuits responsible for most network disruptions and transmission errors. Convert the mountains of T1/T3/E1/E3/SONET performance data available from intelligent monitoring devices into easily understood graphical reports that can be used immediately to report and diagnose problems.
Track actual transmission performance against carrier contractual guarantees and objectives. Dramatically enhance communications about the network; free up time otherwise spent in the drudgery of report generation; reduce arguments; and promote IXC/LEC/customer teamwork directed at improving quality and reducing costs.
Clear Communications has established itself as the market leader for automated performance reporting, and ClearView is quickly becoming a new de facto standard for performance management in communications networks.
Clear Communications is the only telecommunications systems company dedicated to providing software for Total Quality Management (TQM) of communications networks. The company's products enable network managers to attain their goals of zero defects, fault-free transmission and 100 percent availability in strategically crucial digital facilities leased from common carriers.
The company's first product, the ClearView Surveillance System, provides real-time monitoring, testing and reporting on the performance of high-bandwidth digital T1 facilities. The ClearView System delivers decision support for continuous improvement through proactive prevention of problems, replacing after-the-fact remedies which are more expensive and substantially less effective. ClearView Systems are currently helping major corporations such as AT&T, Boeing, Fidelity Investments, GTE, MasterCard and Northern Telecom improve communications for "mission critical" business applications.
Clear Communications supports SunNet Manger with its ClearView application for wide- area network surveillance and performance management.
Solaris version: 2.3 and 2.4 (6-95)
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