OAM&P stands for Operations, Administration, Maintenance & Provisioning. The OAM refers to managing and maintaining a network device. The Provisioning has been added for the telecommunications industry as a term for setting up services creating the acronym OAM&P. OmniVox3D was designed from the ground up with OAM&P in mind. Its components connect in ways that allow Service Providers and Enterprises alike to manage, maintain and provision their services and network devices from a centralized browser based environment.

OmniVox3D's OAM&P capabilities handle the important daily tasks that leads to a successful deployment and effectively aids decision making teams in assessing key performance indicators to make the most accurate businesses decisions. In addition to providing the right information to decision makers, the requirement for a powerful OAM&P component is to also provide service managers with a powerful and easy to use Service Creation Environment for developing and deploying applications.

OmniVox3D addresses these requirements with OmniView®, a complete, centralized, browser-based OAM&P window into the complete world of the APEX Multi-Service Platform (MSP).

The OmniVox3D OAM&P Module provides key functionalities for the APEX MSP and OmniVox3D Application Server Software. These key operational processes lead to rapid and successful implementation and deployment while providing ongoing real-time monitoring and operations for enhanced services.

The OAM&P Module functionality is broken down into the following key areas...

• Configuration Management
• Network Management
• Service Creation
• Fault Management
• Performance Management

The OAM&P capabilities built into OmniVox3D are designed and architected to provide Service Providers the necessary tools and flexibility to maintain and monitor APEX MSPs.

The flexibility and feature rich capabilities of OmniVox3D's OAM&P component stem from key factors such as:

• Easy of use of its web-based design and intuitive set of menus and commands
• Centralized OAM&P for multiple local or geographically distant MSPs.
• An integrated OAM&P interface for all Administration, Maintenance, Provisioning and Service Creation
• XML Support
• SOAP Support

The OAM&P capabilities of OmniVox3D provides Service Providers the necessary tools and features to perform important tasks involved in administering and maintaining APEX Multi-Service Platforms. This creates successful deployments while ongoing information gathering support successful operating decisions concerning various aspects of the APEX MSP and the services it provides.