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Reduce cost and increase HFC and IP Network Service Assurance Platform
performance with proactive Cheetah Technologies next generation enterprise service assurance platform CheetahXD is
a cross domain network management and operational support platform that is based on proven
maintenance
industry standards, and offers a suite of applications for the status and performance monitoring of
CheetahXD builds upon a framework HFC, DOCSIS, IP and VoIP networks.
that includes applications with The built-in suite of applications help pro-actively monitor, manage, and test Hybrid Management
functions such as Provisioning/ Sub-layer (HMS), DOCSIS, and legacy devices in Broadband HFC distribution systems. CheetahXD
applications offer an enhanced experience when used in conjunction with the multi layered Cheetah
Configuration, Fault Management,
Technologies DOCSIS and standard HMS transponders. A full range of optional VoIP test suites
Performance Management and and metrics are supported. CheetahXD also supports HMS based network elements from other
System Administration/Diagnostics. vendors that span these HFC and DOCSIS domains. A northbound SNMP interface enables
forwarding of all CheetahXD alarms into registered external systems.

Primary Applications
Configuration & Provisioning
CheetahXD provides an auto discovery engine allowing operators to selectively auto discover
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particular types of devices. Custom alarm profiles for various devices types can be setup to be
automatically downloaded to the devices upon discovery, dramatically reducing provisioning times
through minimized user input.

Fault Management
The Notifier application in CheetahXD offers real time visibility into impairments that occur in the
system and based on an operators configured alarm criteria. The interactive and flexible application
enables users to customize layouts, create dynamic filters, perform sorts and also launch third
party applications based on the details of an alert. This enables operators to quickly integrate other
systems such as trouble ticketing system into the CheetahXD framework. CheetahXD is also
available with an Enterprise Fault Management System (EFS) that enables the system to be deployed
at corporate or divisional centers to provide visibility into the alerts at regional systems.

Performance Management
CheetahXD provides a suite of performance management applications through its near real time
Data Display, Scheduled Measurements and Reporting functions. These applications allow operators
to initiate on demand and scheduled data collection and displaying of crucial parameters and offer
various formats to export and present the data collected. Both Data Display and the Scheduled
capabilities of CheetahXD offer a unique mix of applications to proactively measure and provides
the operator the opportunity to take corrective action prior to service affecting degradation.

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Power Supply Testing

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Battery Analyst, an automated background power supply testing application enables
operators to define the time periods to selectively test the power supplies and
batteries. The application dynamically performs standby testing on these supplies
and presents the operator an analysis report based on the pass/fail criteria. Summary
reports (available in PDF and CSV formats) reveal trends that enable targeted
maintenance repairs and benefit operators by reducing maintenance costs for routine
battery testing, as well as pinpoint potential problems before a commercial outage
occurs.

IP Service Assurance
CheetahXD offers a collection of integrated HFC and IP test applications that allow
operators to accurately pre qualify an HFC segments readiness to provide Digital
voice service. The VoIP test applications provide information on call setup and
teardown as well as progress and statistics from the signaling plane. Near-end metrics
from the calling client provide results for delay, loss, jitter and are summarized in
a uniform mean opinion score (MOS). Bidirectional results are obtained where
supported through RTCP-XR reporting.

The test results obtained during service turn could be benchmarked and used for
comparative purposes as the number of subscribers increase. Through accurate
remote trouble isolation, operators can continue to reduce their maintenance and
operational costs

As part of its IP service assurance solution, the QAM constellation application available
on all 3349-based DOCSIS transponders enables operators to quickly identify and
diagnose symbol modulation performance issues in the RF plant. The IP sevice
assurance application displays Upstream/Downstream frequency and power, RX MER,
EVM and Rx Error Rate on Code words for Pre/Post FEC.

Motorola OmniStar GX2 Optical Broadband Transmission Platform

This feature enables the user to utilize all existing CheetahXD applications (Tree
Viewer, Notifier, Template Admin, etc) for the Motorola GX2 equipment as well as
provide a generic ability to communicate with the devices via SNMP, including reading
from and writing data to the devices when possible. Custom Auto-Discovery and Trap
Filters utilize basic device modeling and alarming capabilities to provide monitoring and
control of the GX2 modules. Supported modules include:

Module Name Model Name

Control Module for GX2 Chassis GX2-CM100B-R
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Power Supply for GX2 GX2-PSAC10*, GX2-PSDC10*

1310 nm Optical Transmitter GX2-LM1000B
1310 nm Optical Transmitter GX2-LM1000E
Dual Optical Receiver GX2-RX200BX2
Quad Optical Receiver GX2-RX200BX4
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1310 nm Optical Transmitter GX2-LC1000E

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Greentree Commons
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