@ dwx The Alcatel-Lucent 5650 CPAM is developed solely by Alcatel-Lucent and is not “built off of Cariden MATE”. Integration with third-party products such as Cariden MATE or OPNET SP Guru Network Planner use open interfaces and are certified as part of Alcatel-Lucent’s OSS Connected Partner program.
The ALU CPAM tool integrated into their 5620 SAM NMS is built off of Cariden MATE so it will certainly be interesting to see how things play out. It's completely seamless in the NMS so I'm sure there are some proprietary mechansisms Cariden and ALU are using between eachother.
When we spoke earlier this year, we were talking about *customers* (not vendors) as partners.
Cariden collects (from live customer networks) relevant equipment, topology, and traffic information, and then models it over time so that these networks can be better managed and orchestrated by engineering and operations groups.
Cariden has only used published, generally available interfaces without relying on any "back doors" from other vendors; in any case, there is no vendor lab where one can replicate the issues we solved in the varied, multiplatform, worldwide service provider space.
Cisco says Cariden hasn't had to work closely with other vendors in order to tap their equipment, that it's just been arm's length.
But I could swear Cariden told me they worked hard to develop deep, involved partnerships with all the major equipment vendors, in order to 'read' their equipment.
It's possible the latter is more related to Cariden's analytics functions, which are relatively new. In any event, I'm still doubting Cariden will be able to keep offering its normal business for very long. Fwiw, Cisco says I'm wrong about that.
Shukla told me service providers need the coordination of 3 things never coordinated together before:
* Cross-layer provisioning (Layer 1 through Layer 3) * Faster service delivery * Optimized placement of caches i.e. CDN nodes
The first two are SDN no-brainers. The third one makes sense -- I mean, it certainly sounds useful -- but isn't something I've heard mentioned as a key SDN component or application.
Cariden and its network planning could certainly be useful there. It's something to watch.
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