DALLAS -- Nakina Systems Inc. ("Nakina"), an independent software vendor delivering innovative management solutions to communication service providers worldwide, today announced the launch of Nakina Network OS 6, the next version of the company's flagship product.

Among many of the significant additions, Nakina Network OS 6 introduces three critical breakthroughs: The ability to facilitate the elimination of stranded bandwidth in a service provider's network. Industry estimates in recent years suggest that 20 percent to 40 percent of a service provider's assets remain stranded.

This is especially prevalent in older networks, representing hundreds of billions of dollars of infrastructure, where many years of use have resulted in operations support systems (OSSs) that are substantially out-of-sync with what is in the network. Nakina Network OS 6 fully discovers the physical and logical network constructs, in addition to alarms and events from multi-vendor networks. By correlating network operational state with accurate inventory, Nakina Network OS 6 provides a powerful tool to detect and recover stranded assets, allowing service providers to generate revenues on them while significantly reducing unnecessary CAPEX.

The ability for OSS developers - including service provider information technology groups or independent software vendors - to extend Nakina Network OS 6 in support of vendor-specific, differentiating features. In addition to providing a powerful, generic management platform, Nakina Network OS 6 now provides the added ability for developers to extend the platform so as to leverage unique features available through each vendor's networking equipment, without the need for Nakina to intervene with changes to its framework.

The ability for network equipment vendors to extend Nakina Network OS 6 to handle all functionality provided by their network elements. Through previous versions of Nakina Network OS, network equipment vendors have been able to instantly acquire a carrier-grade element and network management system (EMS/NMS) solution for their hardware that scales to tens of thousands of network elements. This was achieved by building a simple device driver (network adapter) to interface the Nakina Network OS with their hardware. Nakina Network OS 6 provides yet another innovation in allowing equipment vendors to extend the management system to manage all of their specialized functionality, allowing their development teams to focus on the creation of value-added, differentiating features rather than re-inventing basic fault, configuration, accounting, performance and security management (FCAPS) features.

Nakina Systems Inc.