Alcatel Lucent

Alcatel Canada Inc.

Lay Been Tan

Felix M Landry

Lui Chu Yeung

Satvinder Singh Bawa

Fan Mo

Ivaylo Tanouchev

Neeraj Chandra

Justin Newcomb

Patricia Michaud

Kirby Koster

Stephen Rosenberger

A method for storing configuration information for a network node in a network management system, the method comprising: installing a node type package for the node in the system, the node type package corresponding to a node type of the node, the node type package being a pluggable software module containing the configuration information; receiving a signal from a user to instantiate the node type for the node; presenting one or more items of the configuration information to a user in a configuration form displayed on a display screen of the system; and, receiving one or more signals from a user for adjusting one or more of the items.

Method and system for storing configuration information for network nodes in a network management system

A method and apparatus are provided for allowing a single platform to recognize and process both Diameter messages and Radius messages. A gateway is provided for translating Radius messages received from a wireline device into NASReq messages. A Diameter Proxy Agent receives both Diameter messages from a wireless device and the NASReq messages from the gateway. The Diameter Proxy Agent selects a PCRF to which to pass a NASReq message, and upon receipt of a NASReq message the PCRF either creates or updates a NASReq session object. By recognizing and processing Radius messages, wireline services can be offered at the same time as wireless services without requiring the use of a second platform. In addition, use of the PCRF server to support wireline services offers much better scalability than that offered by traditional AAA servers.

Radius gateway on policy charging and rules function (PCRF) for wireline/wireless converged solution

A multiple endpoint path for providing endpoint redundancy is described. Selected active end nodes in a digital communications network are configured by a network management system to have compatible alternate endpoint paths. When one of the selected active endpoint paths fails, the network management system automatically switches the endpath from the previously active endpoint to the alternate end point path.

Multiple endpoint paths

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Kanata, Canada

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