Pipeline Publishing Pipeline News Center 5/07/2009 Verizon and Nakina showcase CEMS Strategy   Management World 2009 - Nice, France.    In a packed meeting room in Nice (a number of people were refused admittance, as the room was at capacity with around a hundred or so attendees present), Verizon's Director of Network Management and Security Testing, Robert Ormsby, reported that the North American giant has saved millions thanks to the implementation of a common element management system (CEMS) from Nakina Systems.   The CEMS in question has managed to integrate the Metro Ethernet, packet-based backhaul, and ultra-long-haul optical infrastructures across multiple continents. This single-vendor approach is a notable one for Verizon, as it serves as an example of the unwieldy nature of attempting to use multiple EMSs across numerous hardware platforms from over a dozen vendors. Indeed, element management is often an afterthought for hardware vendors, and Verizon has confirmed that corralling their elements together under a CEMS has been a source of substantial savings.   Verizon is managing 10,000 network elements, at present, with the Nakina system, and Nakina has reported that Verizon Business’s CEMS is being expanded to over 40,000 network elements through the end of 2009. Verizon cited benefits to their use of Nakina's CEMS that included significant reduced time-to-market, purchase avoidance of other EMSs, and both a single interface and single point of integration between the CEMS and other B/OSSs within Verizon.   The project was of specific relevance to TM Forum's Management World due to the use of TMF854 (MTOSI) as a key northbound interface.    Those interested in downloading a white paper on the Nakina/Verizon work can do so directly from Pipeline here: http://www.pipelinepub.com/0509/nakina_excl.html , or from Nakina's homepage (www.nakinasystems.com).   by Tim Young, Pipeline Editor-in-Chief

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