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TNAS™ functionality has two modules:
	Core Modules
	Auxiliary Modules

Core Modules

TNAS has following modules under the core functionality:

• Network Build
• Provisioning
• Inventory Management
• Capacity Management

Network Build

TNAS allows the Network Build to be managed and administered. The design engineers design their Network additions, moves or changes on TNAS. TNAS produces the Work Orders for the field staff that allow the Network additions, moves or changes to be administered and managed. The Work Orders produced by TNAS are detailed and contain all the relevant information needed by the field Engineers to carry out the Network additions, moves or changes.

Provisioning

The provisioning engineers provision Customer and Network demands on TNAS. TNAS allows the User to search the network for the optimum routes and equipment through the network for the demands. TNAS produces Work Orders for the field staff that allow the provisioning to be administered and managed. TNAS also allows moves and changes to existing demands to be managed and administered. The Work Orders produced by TNAS are detailed and contain all the information needed by the field Engineers to carry out these additions, moves and changes. TNAS includes a rules engine to allow users to filter the solutions offered by the capacity search function.
The AlTion product set consists of a set of modules for the planning and assignment of transport and mobile networks. It also allows the modelling for any networks such as IP, SDH / ATM, DWDM, DSL and Mobile Networks.

Inventory Management

TNAS manages inventory in telecommunications networks. It removes the manual processes and spreadsheets associated with tracking and ordering network inventory. It provides Network Design and Engineering with functions to track equipment from stores through deployment to decommissioning when planning and designing networks.
As a designer designs his network on TNAS, TNAS produces Work Orders to instruct field staff to deploy, rearrange and decommission if necessary this equipment in the field.
TNAS models a very wide range of Network Equipment including SDH, PDH, Optical Radio, ATM, ISDN, PSTN, Customer Premises Equipment and Distribution Frame Equipment. There is also a capability to support Power and Environmental equipment and associated usage reports.

TNAS Inventory Management Benefits

Inventory Management in TNAS delivers the following benefits.

• Central on-line data source for planning and design information.
• Reduced time spent on documentation maintenance.
• Reduced document circulation overhead.
• Reduced time spent on document approval procedures.
• Reduced time spent processing Design Documents.
• Reduction in duplication of documentation.
• Schematic views for build process.
• Reservation of physical equipment & logical capacity / timeslots on a per project basis.

Capacity Management

TNAS offers users layered network schematic views and at a glance network utilisation. It allows users to cut operational costs and to optimise network asset usage. Planners can anticipate network shortages and be proactive in network planning.

Auxiliary Modules

In addition to core functionality TNAS has the following auxiliary modules.

• Flow through Provisioning Module
• Data Synchronisation Module
• Fault Management Interface Module
• Work Orders Module
• Reporting Module
• Data Load Module

Flow through Provisioning Module

This module allows the user to route and configure circuits on TNAS. These routes and configurations can then be applied to the network's element managers via this module.

Data Synchronisation Module

This module compares the data contained in TNAS with the configuration data contained in the network's element managers. Any differences in data can be detected and corrected. This ensures that accurate and real time information is available to the Planning, Design, Provisioning and Network Management business areas.

Fault Management Interfaces Module

• FENs Interface
  TNAS has an interface to FENs (Fujitsu's Expandable Network Management System) which is a PDH event management system. FENs monitors all the PDH alarms in the network and retrieves information from TNAS allowing the FENS operator to make sense of the alarms received.
• Micromuse Netcool - Interface
  This is an interface for SDH fault correlation with NetCool (product from Micromuse). The interface provides the following functionality:
• NetCool is able to retrieve customer information associated with SDH element faults from TNAS and display this information in its UI.
• NetCool is able to automatically select a number of SDH events and submit to TNAS to perform root cause analysis.

TNAS Work Orders Module

All planned changes to the network generate Work Order instructions. A Work Order is generated to either instruct field personnel to perform the physical installation or, in the case of electronically controlled paths, to provide path set-up instructions to the mediation layer. Work orders can be configured further to tailor the orders to the needs of customers.
TNAS supports the following types of Work Orders.

• Cable Work Order
• Equipment Work Order
• Transmission Media Layer Work Order
• Path Work Orders
• Circuit Orders

TNAS Reporting Module

This module contains a set of reports that can be run from TNAS Reports. These reports allow the information in the TNAS database to be interrogated by the users. Examples include usage reports that allow the fill on the network to be monitored and tracked. Also included are fault reports that give users access to network information in a user-defined way in the case of network outages.

Data Load Module

This module allows bulk quantities of network information to be quickly and easily loaded in to TNAS. This module removes the need to key bulk quantities of data into TNAS through the User Interface. This is particularly helpful when commissioning TNAS.

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