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CONTACT FOR ALL APPLICATIONS: Raanan Peleg - (408) 447-4515
CUSTOMER: US WEST
APPLICATION: Adjunct Processor TYPE: Advanced Intelligent Networks
(AIN)
CUSTOMER OVERVIEW
US West is one of the seven Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs) in the
US, covering 14 mountain states including Oregon, Washington, Colorado, and
others. US West supports over 13 million access lines, and is involved in
businesses in the US as well as Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Soviet
Union.
APPLICATION OVERVIEW
US West Advanced Technologies launched an Advanced Intelligent Network trial
involving major telephone switch vendors, including AT&T's 5ESS, NT's DMS 100,
and Ericsson's 5AX, and an adjunct platform from HP, the Model 1245. The
Adjunct Processor application, provided by NEC America Inc., the prime
contractor on the trial, allowed US West to configure advanced services using
hardware and software from diverse vendors. The services included five
services, including cancel call waiting, transfer to voice messaging, automatic
call back, improved three-way calling, and customer usage information. The
trial was limited to internal testing and had no actual customers
involved.
SYSTEM OVERVIEW
The Adjunct Processor is a 6 Processor (MC68040 25MHz) system, configured with
128MB of shadowed main memory and 5GB of mirrored disk storage. The application
used initially the Oracle 6.0, and then later 6.2 Parallel Server database.
Connectivity to the switch was initally provided over X.25 lines, and later
across TCP/IP Ethernet for higher throughput.
HP also provided US WEST with the TCAP (TeleCommunications Access Protocol)
program interface to the network, whether across X.25 or Ethernet. NEC, US
WEST's partner in software development, provided US WEST with a SLEE (Service
Logic Execution Environment) upon which the Feature Manager application would
execute. The application was developed using a trial Service Creation
Environment (SCE) in the lab at US West's Advanced Technology facility.
CUSTOMER STATED BENEFITS
. Highly-expandable Fault Tolerant System
. High-performance Symmetrical Multi-processing UNIX Operating System
. Support for Industry Standard Databases
CUSTOMERS: Bell Communications Research (Bellcore)
US Regional Bell Operating Companies
APPLICATION: LINC Longterm Intelligent TYPE: Operations Support System
Network Controller
CUSTOMER OVERVIEW
Bell Communications Research (Bellcore) is the R&D arm for the Regional Bell
Operating Companies (RBOCs). Bellcore is a $2B organization, owned by the RBOCs
to provide value-added services to phone company customers. There are seven
RBOCs in the United States, each operating in its own geographic area. The
RBOCs offer services to phone and data users, based on solutions from Bellcore
or other application suppliers.
APPLICATION OVERVIEW
LINC is the enhanced version of Flexcom, an application initially offered by
Bellcore on IBM mainframe equipment. It provides users with centralized control
over a network of facilities leased from the local exchange carriers (or
RBOCs). LINC includes capabilities for managing DS0, DS1 and DS3 digital
transmission links, as well as the capacity to accomodate network elements and
equipment from many different manufacturers.
Users can use LINC directly through terminal access from customer premises, or
they can request that their telephone company does it for them. Terminal access
is initially based on ASCII terminals, and later on a graphical user interface
using X-Teminals or UNIX workstations.
To meet the need for bandwidth on demand, LINC customers can send
reconfiguration commands over the LINC system to digital cross-connect systems
in the network. These systems will quickly reconfigure the voice or data
service during, for instance, peak traffic periods within the customer's
network. This is a significant improvement over the time when a
reconfiguration was manual and could take several days.
One of the main uses of the application is disaster recovery. In the event of a
disaster, a customer can immediately redirect all data and voice lines to
back-up sites, and keep the company network in service.
SYSTEM OVERVIEW
Bellcore and the RBOCs are using HP 9000 Model 1245 systems to perform the LINC
functions. The system is connected to users via modem lines and Ethernet LAN
bridges and via synchronous lines to the network elements and equipment. The
application uses the Informix Online database engine for storing all customer
network information.
The LINC application is currently in service at US WEST in Denver, Colorado.
It is expected to be deployed into five of the seven RBOCs by the end of
1992.
CUSTOMER-STATED BENEFITS
. Standards based (UNIX) fault tolerant systems
. High performance with Symmetric Multi-Processing
. Easy expandability of processors, memory and IO
CUSTOMERS: Bell Atlantic, C&P Telephone
APPLICATION: ESAC TYPE: Operations Support System
CUSTOMER OVERVIEW
Bell Atlantic is one of the seven Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs) in
the US, covering the states of Virginia, Pensylvania and New Jersey among
others. C&P Telephone is the local exchange carrier in Virginia. It offers
voice and data services on AT&T, NT and Siemens switch equipment.
APPLICATION OVERVIEW
The ESAC application provides operations support for the network of telephone
switches. It handles the distribution of software revisions and patches,
trouble ticketing and provides online access to equipment documentation.
The main element of the ESAC applications is the maintenance of the switch
software revisions and updates to the network of telephone switches. All
patches and new software revisions are loaded to the ESAC system directly from
the switch manufacturers' facilities. Maintenance engineers access the ESAC
system remotely and issue commands to distribute software revisions and
patches.
The ESAC system is also used for trouble ticketing. Maintenance engineers
log-on remotely to update trouble reports and retrieve new trouble tickets.
This system also provides online manual pages of the switch documentation, so
that the engineers do not have to carry hardcopy manuals at each
location.
SYSTEM OVERVIEW
The ESAC application initially ran on AT&T 3B2 computers, however, these
systems lacked the expandability in processors and IO required by C&P
Telephone. The application is gradually migrating to the HP 9000 Model 1240
system, to ease the transition for the user community.
The system uses UUCP connections over modem lines for access to the switch
manufacturer and for software distribution. It also uses Datakit and BX.25
connections for distributing software to the AT&T 5ESS switches. The
maintenance engineers log-on to the system via modem dial-up lines from remote
terminals.
CUSTOMER-STATED BENEFITS
. Easy expandability of processors and IO
. High performance transaction processing
. UNIX operating system
CUSTOMER: NIPPON Telephone & Telegraph, NTT
APPLICATION: MHS, Message Handling TYPE: Enhanced Services
System
CUSTOMER OVERVIEW
NTT is one of the worlds largest companies, with revenues of in excess of $50B.
It includes all the telecommunications services offered within Japan, while the
international operations being handled by KDD.
The Telecommunications environment is being deregulated in Japan, and the once
restriction on NTT's rights to market value-added services is being lifted. NTT
has invested in many new such services, including mail messaging, to be
introduced in the coming year.
APPLICATION OVERVIEW
The Message Handling System is a public electronic mail messaging application.
It will allow private and corporate subscribers to use a public service
available throughout Japan for electronic mail. MHS also provides system and
network management capabilities, so that service administrators can configure,
monitor and troubleshoot the services. MHS is fully developed by the NTT
Software entity, and is based on the X.400 messaging protocol, and a
proprietary high performance database.
The application will initially be centralized in Tokyo, with access through
NTT's public X.25 network. As the number of subscribers exceed 20,000, it may
also be deployed in other geographic areas.
SYSTEM OVERVIEW
NTT uses four HP 9000 Model 1240 systems, with up to four Processor Elements.
The four systems are connected to a local area network and use a series of high
performance X.25 gateways to buffer incoming traffic and route to the
appropriate 1240 system.
NTT's on-site developers access the system via asynchronous direct connect
lines, or over the Ethernet LAN with X-Terminals. NTT also has a large number
of remote developers who dial into the system via modem lines.
CUSTOMER -STATED BENEFITS
. High performance transaction processing engine
. Strong local HP support organization
. Standards-based operating environment
CUSTOMER: A Large US Telecom Service Provider
APPLICATION: Messaging Services TYPE: Enhanced Services
APPLICATION OVERVIEW
The application provides messaging services, such as electronic mail and fax
store & forward, to subscribers with national coverage. Each application server
will initially handle up to 250,000 accounts and will be operating at a very
high transaction throughput to serve up to 1,000 concurrent user sessions. The
application is fully developed in-house and relies on a custom-built file
system to handle the message storing and retrieval.
The messaging service needs to be continuously available to users, potentially
for international deployment at a later stage. Although fault tolerance was
chosen for that reason, it did not address disaster recovery. Consequently,
each application server is duplicated to another site, allowing all user
traffic to be redirected to the alternate site in the event of a
disaster.
SYSTEM OVERVIEW
The application will be deployed on very large HP 9000 Model 1245Plus systems,
with up to 8 Processor Elements and 256MB of shadowed memory. It uses a
synchronous and fiber-based network to transport user data, and connects to a
LAN based network to interface with gateway servers for fax and related
traffic.
The application is developed in a S/700 workstation environment, using the
SoftBench framework to target compile and debug jobs to the S/1200 systems.
OpenView was chosen as a platform for managing the network of systems and other
equipment involved in providing the service. It will use the OpenView
Extensible Agents on the Series 1200 systems to perform these
functions.
CUSTOMER-STATED BENEFITS
. Open Systems based Operating System & UNIX SVR4 strategy
. High performance transaction processing
. Expandability to very large configurations
. HP Added Value with products such as SoftBench and OpenView
. Strong local HP support
CUSTOMER: A Large Equipment Manufacturer
& Software Supplier
APPLICATION: Railroad Control System TYPE: Transportation/Control
APPLICATION OVERVIEW
The HP 9000 Series 1200 Fault Tolerant Computers are used as railroad
management systems. A complete system is capable of managing and optimizing
all railrad operations, such as track signalling and switching, locomotive
and train monitoring and directing, switch yard operations, track and rolling
stock maintenance, and administration. The application is developed
in-house and uses the Informix Online database as the data repository.
This system consists of stationary and mobile hardware, and software components
including trackside, locomotive, off track transmission, and office. A
significant portion of these various devices have been designed and are being
built by the customer.
HP's systems are used in two different applications: Cluster Controllers, and
Front End Processor. The Cluster Controller helps the communication switching
between office based systems and physical railroad operations, over X.25. The
Front End Processor is a repository of all railroad databases critical to
operations. It also helps optimizing the operations, and used as a server for
the control center work stations (over Ethernet).
The application is sold to Railway companies and is currently in use in the
US.
SYSTEM OVERVIEW
At present, the application runs on HP's high-end fault tolerant system, Model
1245. In the future, a significant portion of the application could be handled
by the low-end system, Model 1210.
The systems are generally 2 processor systems with 64MB shadowed memory, 5GB of
disk storage, Ethernet and X.25 networking. The developers of the application
used X-terminals, UNIX workstations or direct connect terminals to access the
system.
CUSTOMER-STATED BENEFITS
. Open Systems based Fault Tolerance (UNIX & Industry standard databases)
. High performance transaction processing
. Networking capabilities (X.25 and Ethernet)
CUSTOMER: Hong Kong Government
APPLICATION: Library Automation TYPE: Local Government/Public Service
Systems
CUSTOMER OVERVIEW
The Regional Council is responsible for the policy making and administration of
the cultural, environmental and hygienic issues of the new territories and
outlying islands of Hong Kong, which in fact covers almost half of the
population in Hong Kong. Regional Services Department directly reports to
Regional Council to carry out the daily works. With this infrastructure, RSD
is responsible for the running of the libraries in their responsible
area.
APPLICATION OVERVIEW
The Hong Kong Regional Council (Regco) has selected a single HP 9000 Model 1245
for its library automation project. Regco will use Pick-based software from
Dynex (US), distributed in Hong Kong by SCS Computer Systems. The Hong Kong
library has over 1.6 million library materials, including books, videos, and
cassettes; 75 per cent of these are in Chinese. Apart from English, and
simplified and traditional Chinese characters, the system S/W must also be able
to process the Hong Kong Immigration Department's Chinese Character Code (CCC)
system.
SYSTEM OVERVIEW
The three-processor system, installed in October 1992, can handle a projected
volume of 11 million circulation transaction per year. The current volume of
transactions is about 5.8 million per year, with peak volume at 13,000
transactions per day. Using the X.25 network, terminals and printers will be
attached to the Model 1245 system in a wide area network configuration.
CUSTOMER-STATED BENEFITS
. Good support of Chinese Characters
. High performance System
. Extremely Reliable System
. Important system expandability capabilities
. Cost-Effective High-Quality Solution
S/1200 REFERENCE SITES
OCTOBER, 1992
HP's FAULT TOLERANT PROGRAM