ECI this week announced the launch of Muse Network Planner, a next-generation planning tool for packet and optical networks.
The new tool simplifies the traditional network planning process, to achieve real-time, online iterative planning processes and near instantaneous network implementation.
ECI’s Muse Network Planner offers packet-optical optimization across layers 0-3. Additionally, advanced algorithms link with actual network data to optimize the network based on user-selectable factors including cost, latency and Optical Signal to Noise Ratio (OSNR).
Muse Network Planner also provides simulation testing to analyze the robustness of network design and to determine how services are impacted under multiple failure scenarios. This allows operators to assess the capability of the network to deliver on SLAs through applying dynamic restoration mechanisms.
Muse Network Planner’s plug and play functionality and user friendly, multi-window GUI makes it simple to use and ensure operators control what is happening in their networks at all times, said ECI.
Erez Zelokovitz, Head of SDN and NFV Line of Business, ECI
Muse Network Planner aims to echo in a new era of network planning, moving from static, manual means of network deployment, to become increasingly flexible, adaptable and simplified in order to meet with shifting network demands and real time scenarios.
