Emperative Shows Optical's Future

WALTHAM, MA -- Emperative, the leading provider of on-demand, network and service provisioning software, today announced the completion and public demonstration of a project with Williams Communications to show end-to-end intelligent management of a production optical network.The Emperative project with Williams Communications is one of the first commercial examples of automated network discovery, activation, path management, and real-time recovery and restoration of high-capacity optical connections in a multi-vendor network. Theseare steps in the service fulfillment process that have held back carriers from delivering to their customers the unlimited potential of optical services quickly, reliably and profitably. With a unified solution for eliminating these hurdles and injecting intelligenceinto optical networks, carriers will differentiate their offerings and realize the economic and technical efficiencies needed to maximize revenue generation from their legacy and next generation networks.“Automating fulfillment of high-capacity, high-valueservices is a competitive and economic mandate,” saysPaul Savill, vice president of enhanced data servicesfor Williams Communications. “The technologies areavailable. The required advances in OSS and networkmanagement have been made. Today we’ve shown that itis a technical reality. Emperative and WilliamsCommunications have given the industry a view oftelecommunications’ future on-demand model forbusiness."In a separate release:Emperative, the leading provider of on-demand network and serviceprovisioning software, today unveiled its Meta-Control Plane strategy. This approach delivers dynamic service fulfillment of intelligent services across complex, multi-layer optical networks, incorporating today's existing management systems and new developments in optical signaling as they become available."The reason pricing pressure has crushed the telecom industry is that too often, price is the only competitive differentiator between providers," said Randy Fuller, Emperative Vice President of Marketing. "An instantly configurable, intelligent network gives a provider negotiating flexibility to find new revenue streams from short-term or pre-scheduled services instead of through simple price concessions for static commodity bandwidth. Emperative's Meta-Control Plane strategy delivers this dynamic intelligence across multi-domain, multi-vendor networks using the current management systems and delivers this intelligence today."Emperative's Meta-Control Plane strategy, based on its ProvEn Optical 2.0 optical provisioning application, gives carriers the ability to unify the service fulfillment process and automate device discovery, provisioning, and inventory management across legacy and next generation networks. The strategy provides an economic and technical roadmap for transition to dynamic service fulfillment.Emperative Inc.Williams Communications Group