Incumbent carriers, mobile and fixed service providers and verticals wish to capture revenues by providing broadband services. Network equipment manufactures have developed a wide range of innovative technological approaches to deliver these services, so the challenge for service providers becomes managing a mixed set of services over a non-homogeneous installed base. A unified method of management is required.

The Alcatel-Lucent 1353 Network Manager (NM) provides this unified management by offering industry-leading auto discovery of network elements (NEs) and network links; provisioning; monitoring; proactive maintenance and capacity and inventory planning. In addition, it offers a range of easy-to-interpret tools, allowing non-experts to visualize network capacities and future needs.