User manual ALCATEL-LUCENT DATA GRID SUITE BROCHURE

[. . . ] Alcatel-Lucent Data Grid Suite The Alcatel-Lucent Data Grid Suite (DGS) streamlines the data-management process for network operators, reducing operational and integration costs and enabling faster time-to-market for new revenue-generating services. Benefits · Reduce application integration costs by federating multiple data sources · Faster time-to-market for new revenue-generating services · Lower operational costs · Preservation of legacy technology investments as well as minimizing the impacts of future migration costs · Enhances delivery of loyalty management, content aggregation, mobile advertising and other value-added services The Alcatel-Lucent Data Grid Suite (DGS) is one of the key components of the Alcatel-Lucent Subscriber Data Management Solution. As part of the solution, the Alcatel-Lucent DGS provides a more unified approach to managing data from multiple data sources across different domains by giving network operators a single point of access to network data such as subscriber profiles and application data (see Figure 1). [. . . ] This protocol hides underlying data schema complexities from the applications and provides access to the data without a significant performance loss thus enabling mastered data management. Features The Alcatel-Lucent DGS offers network operators the following capabilities: · Universalview­ Enables a dramatic reduction in integration cycle time and time-to-market for new applications that need access to one or more real-time network and IT data repositories · Datavirtualization­ Blends and combines data from intranetwork data sources (real-time network data and IT data) while maintaining legacy data stores · Datafederation­ Federates data from the operator's network with partner data external to the operator's network ¬ Enables a single sign-on access for multiple networks, services and applications, as well as third-party domains · Highlyscalablearchitecture ¬ Single serving node consolidates data from all data producers and provides access to all data consumers ¬ Easy increase in the number of nodes as data size and workload increase · Index-servertechnology­ Supports "self-healing" when data is shifted from one resource to another · Highavailability­ For data sources that do not support automatic-failover capabilities · Supportforprovisioning/write capabilitiestointegrateddatasources ¬ Data mediation and transformation between the legacy schemas from data sources and the consolidated, global-view schema ¬ Metadata management to manage the data repository for design information, including schemas, mappings and data placement ¬ Built-in query management, data transformation, access and throttling controls, eliminating unnecessary programming and "wrapper" development ¬ Modeling tool to design the generic user-profile schema (see figure 2) In addition, the Alcatel-Lucent DGS can minimize or eliminate impacts to applications resulting from data migration of legacy to next-generation repositories. · Enhances loyalty-management programs, content aggregation, mobile advertising, identitymanagement and other value-added services. Personalization of those services is easily enabled through the combination of key data sources. Pre-integrated products · Alcatel-Lucent8650Subscriber DataManager(SDM)­ Manages the subscriber-profile data needed for Home Location Register (HLR), Home Subscriber Server (HSS), Equipment Identify Register (EIR), Mobile Number Portability (MNP), and Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) requirements for mobile, fixed and converged networks · Alcatel-Lucent8661Directory Server(DS)­ State-of-the-art, high-performance Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) directory server ¬ Stores and maintains applicationbased subscriber data to provide simultaneous support for multiple real-time applications as well as other data elements, such as preferences and identity information · Alcatel-Lucent8620SurePay ®Suite­ Complete, end-to-end convergentpayment solution ¬ Supports real-time rating, charging and billing for wireline, wireless, data and video, plus associated value-added services for prepaid and postpaid subscribers · Alcatel-Lucent5410XMLDocument ManagementServer(XDMS)­ Allows end-users to manage their contact information and group memberships in a unified list that is stored in the operator's network. Detailed benefits · Reduces application integration costs by federating multiple data sources. As a result, the Alcatel-Lucent DGS provides a unified, single point of access for value-added services for all data across the network. · Enables faster time-to-market for new revenue-generating services targeted for multiple networks, markets and domains. By providing a single, virtual layer for application integration, it dramatically reduces the cycle-time typically required for an application to access two or more data sources. · Lowers operational costs of customer service. In facilitating a single view of multiple data sources, the Alcatel-Lucent DGS has been able to eliminate the challenges of customer service representatives needing to access multiple screens to troubleshoot service issues of a subscriber. · Preserves investments in older technology with seamless integration based on Bell Labs technology. Recognizing that critical information for value-added services and customer support functions may reside in purpose-built repositories, the Alcatel-Lucent DGS can merge/join in real-time data from those repositories as well as next-generation elements. Alcatel-Lucent Value · UniqueAlcatel-LucentBellLabs techniques­ Simplify and streamline the data-collection process ¬ Logical data view for simultaneously querying and updating the global view ¬ Data models defined with datadesign capabilities that provide a consolidated schema to create the logical view, and support legacy schemas and mappings between the Alcatel-Lucent DGS-defined global view and individual data sources 2 Alcatel-Lucent Data Grid Suite | Data Sheet Figure 1. [. . . ] The information presented is subject to change without notice. Alcatel-Lucent assumes no responsibility for inaccuracies contained herein. [. . . ]