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Network Management

CSC, a leader in managing large, complex systems for more than four decades, can help you whether you are installing a new network or maintaining an existing one. If you are installing a new network, we can help ensure that your network and its management tools are tailored to your needs. If you have existing networks, we can optimize them for you and keep them running smoothly using an integrated "manager of managers."

We can also help you redesign networks to perform at their best. Whether you have proprietary voice networks, inter-connected private branch exchanges, local area networks (LANs), wide area networks (WANs), or a combination of these, we can design a reliable, flexible, secure, and self-sustaining management system for you.

We are constantly improving our network management capabilities. Currently, we are developing two enterprise-wide network management systems. Our Enterprise Management System is one of the first systems to integrate a variety of network management products so that they can be managed by one "manager of managers." The Network Management Operations Center (NMOC) Internal Development (ID) provides network management services for a variety of government and commercial contracts.

With our extensive investment in state-of-the-art facilities and tools, and with our experience, we have the means to serve your most complex network management needs.

For more information, please contact
Kumait Jawdat,
Business Development.

What We Offer || Success Stories

What We Offer

Management Design
CSC designs complete, customized network management systems using commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products. Our approach allows us to offer low-risk and cost-effective plug-and-play solutions. Whether you are managing legacy systems or new Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) and Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) equipment, we can provide a standards-based, enterprise-wide system that meets your needs. Our solutions are designed so that COTS network management products can be added, replaced, or removed easily, when you need them.

Network Designs
CSC provides architecture services to help you build or expand your network, so that your infrastructure continues to support your business strategy and processes. Our services include network planning, detailed designs, security and performance audits, configuration baselines, and tuning of existing networks. We assess the physical and logical connections of your desktop systems to the LANs. We evaluate your network backbone and determine whether your LANs are properly connected to WANs. We increase access to critical data and computing facilities, and we ensure that your access to the Internet, intranets, and extranets is safe. We evaluate your system security plan and mechanisms to determine whether your network is sufficiently robust for your needs, and whether your infrastructure, traffic, network nodes, and data are adequately protected.

Network Management Services
CSC also can manage your organization's networks. We can provide service engineering and implementation plans; fault management, performance management, configuration management, account management, and security management for voice or data networks; billing collection and processing; database updates and management; and other management services.

Success Stories

CSC's Enterprise Management System Internal Development - sponsored by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) for its Defense Switched Network (DSN) - is one of the first systems to integrate a variety of network management products so that they work together. Organized hierarchically and managed by one "manager of managers," the system allows you to manage the most widespread networks from one place. CSC has already applied the system to several other programs. For example, CSC engineers used the system to help migrate DISA's telephony management system from the DSN Integrated Management Support System (DIMSS) to the Advanced DSN Integrated Management Support System (ADIMSS). Using the HP OpenView platform, the Gensys G2 expert system, and Application Builder products, the proof-of-concept work completed under the Enterprise Management System ID project allowed DISA to move from a specially developed network management system to a COTS-based system with very low risk and lower costs.

CSC's Network Management Operations Center (NMOC) regularly implements Internal Development (ID) projects to update its network management platform, integrating legacy and newer technologies through standards-based COTS products. NMOC ID is unique for its ability to collect feedback from customers on several systems, analyze the data, and develop new procedures. These have allowed us to provide better quality and more cost-effective service for such projects as Direct User Access Terminal System (DUATS), Social Security Administration in Puerto Rico (SSA-PR), Department of State Telephone Equipment Contract (DOSTEC), and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Weather Wire Service (NWWS).