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WiChorus Element Management System (EMS) To fully leverage investments in WiMAX and emerging 4G wireless networks, carriers need effective tools for managing and monitoring subscribers, services and core infrastructure. Such management tools enable carriers to capitalize on new revenue generating services, streamline operational costs and ensure network availability. These capabilities are increasingly important as carriers embrace new models, such as mobile internet services, and require intelligent control of their wireless infrastructure to deliver a premium user experience and ensure profitability. The WiChorus Element Management System (EMS) provides carriers a comprehensive solution for managing their wireless core networks, exploiting the full capabilities of the WiChorus SmartCoreTM platforms. The WiChorus EMS software provides a highly scalable solution with intuitive user interface that simplifies fault management, configuration management and monitoring of network elements and subscribers. Detailed performance and statistics information are gathered providing a useful summary of network activity and subscriber behavior.

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Modular architecture for reliability and scalability Intuitive user interface ensures quick access to information, streamlining operating costs Real-time monitoring of performance and statistics information Simplified configuration of WiChorus nodes, including multimode configuration Comprehensive user security enables granular control of administrative privileges Standard SNMP and CORBA interfaces for integration with 3rd party systems Extensive visibility of subscribers and network elements Full featured fault management including color coding, custom thresholds and filters

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WiChorus network elements support robust embedded management features, including industry-standard command-line interface (ClI), SNMP and BulkStats for efficient retrieval of information. Integration with 3rd party NMS or OSS systems is facilitated through direct interfaces to the network elements or northbound CORBA or SNMP interfaces from the EMS. The WiChorus solution enables carriers to automate repetitive tasks, rapidly respond to conditions in the network, and proactively manage subscribers and services. Architecture The WiChorus EMS is a robust client/server software system that is designed to support large scale networks. The modular architecture enables the distribution of functionality across one or more servers to provide optimal performance and redundancy. For example, EMS front-end processing can be offloaded to a separate server to support a very large number of clients. Additionally, the mediation function, which aggregates information from network elements, can be distributed to regional servers, to streamline processing of overall network information.

The EMS supports multiple concurrent users leveraging Java client software supporting a rich graphical user interface. Communication with network elements is through industry standard SNMP, along with BulkStats operations to efficiently gather real time statistics and monitoring information across a range of network elements and subscribers. WiChorus accommodates interfaces to 3rd party NMS or OSS platforms through a northbound CORBA interface, along with SNMP. The EMS server can be deployed in combination with an Oracle database providing further flexibility in designing robust management solutions. . A primary and secondary EMS server can be simultaneously linked to the database server to ensure continuous operation should one of the EMS systems fail. The Oracle database server itself can also be deployed in a variety of redundant configurations to ensure maximum availability. Intuitive User Interface The WiChorus EMS provides a rich user interface with intuitive navigation to help streamline operational costs. The system supports multiple views of the network, including a convenient tree-based view along with a graphical network view showing the overall network topology. With a comprehensive view of the network, service providers can quickly navigate to find information they need and drill down for additional detail as required. The EMS maintains a comprehensive, real-time chassis view of each node displaying lED state, high availability state and CPU utilization. This enables users to view equipment in the network as if they were physically right next to the device.

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traffic. The WiChorus EMS captures this information to provide service providers a central view of key subscriber attributes, such as addressing assignments, QoS profiles, wireless state (active/idle), location and traffic statistics. In addition, service providers can configure policies, such as address assignment, traffic management or security on a per subscriber basis. Performance Management The WiChorus EMS provides graphical monitoring tools for displaying a wide range of real time statistics collected from WiChorus nodes and subscriber stations. Service providers can customize these charts to ensure they meet the needs of their day-to-day operation. In addition, intuitive Key Performance Indicator (KPI) dashboards provide a convenient tool for real-time monitoring of critical metrics, such as CPU utilization, network size, and traffic metrics. These powerful tools enable service providers to manage and deploy large scale networks, while maintaining visibility of overall performance of the network at various levels.

The WiChorus EMS leverages unique hierarchical table views with search and filtering capabilities that simplify navigation of large amounts of information, such as subscriber stations. These advanced tabular views enable operators to sift through several levels of hierarchy from a single window, enabling them to quickly zero-in on the information they are looking for without cumbersome clickthroughs. Operators are also kept abreast of the most critical network information on the top-level screen through a series of summary panes that track overall fault and performance activity. Such summary views ensure key issues are elevated to receive the attention they deserve without flooding users with excessive data. Network Configuration The WiChorus EMS provides user-friendly screens for configuring all WiChorus elements in the network. Configuration information is stored within the EMS database, as well as being pushed onto the network elements. The solution provides a built-in backup of each nodes configuration for purposes of restoration and recovery should a network failure occur. Repetitive configuration can be efficiently handled through the WiChorus system, as one nodes configuration can be used to help configure other nodes in the network when only a few pieces of information need to be changed. In addition to node specific configuration, the WiChorus EMS has user friendly screens designed to accommodate configuration of network-wide policies, such as content management, spectral management or traffic management. Subscriber Management Playing a key role in subscriber management, the WiChorus SmartCore platforms provide a wealth of information regarding individual subscribers and their associated

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Administration The WiChorus EMS provides service providers a robust solution for managing administrative access to the system. Individual user accounts can be created with varying levels of access, and the system provides extensive tracking and logging for each user. These capabilities ensure flexibility and accountability in managing user authentication. The WiChorus EMS also supports comprehensive image management, ensuring minimal disruption for service providers as they upgrade their networks. With dual image support on all WiChorus network elements, new software can be downloaded at any time while activation of the new image can be custom configured by the user. This enables proactive scheduling of network upgrades with minimal disruption to the operational network. Any failure of the image within the node will cause the system to revert to the original image, to ensure stability in the network. Fault Management The WiChorus EMS provides real time event reporting, intelligent response mechanisms, and intuitive visual indicators allowing for swift resolution of network issues. Alarms can be generated based on a single event or based on a collection of related events. They can be assigned different severity levels, and can trigger unique actions based on the defined severity level, such as initiating an email, page or executing a command. Alarms can be filtered and sorted by source, criticality, or time/date. Intuitive visual indicators at the highest-level view through the most detailed product view enable service providers to quickly identify and isolate faults in the network. Policy Management & Network Intelligence: leveraging extensive DPI capabilities in the SmartCore platforms, the WiChorus EMS allows operators to easily analyze and manage their network based on content. Policies can be defined to identify specific applications, including Peer-to-Peer traffic, and perform statistics capture, traffic policing, QoS prioritization or filtering based on this content. Policies can be configured with extensive granularity and distributed and enforced across the network. The policy management and network intelligence features of the EMS simplify network-wide monitoring and enforcement of internet traffic policies.

Features: Fault: Alarm and event collection and storage Fault and event filtering by various attributes Color coding according to fault severity Automated email, page or software command triggered upon fault detection Visual icon and lED status change based on detected faults Fault and event forwarding to northbound managers High level summary of select network-wide alarms Configuration: Comprehensive configuration of WiChorus network elements Simplified configuration of groups of network elements Inventory management Comprehensive image management for non-disruptive network upgrades Performance: Real time performance monitoring and graphing Scheduled collection of performance statistics Subscriber-based and network-based performance Security: Secure access to individual network elements (SSH) Role based access control Graphical Interface: Tree view with custom defined hierarchical grouping Network topology view with zoom to multiple levels Multi-hierarchical tables for quick navigation across several layers Detailed chassis, card and port view with real-time status updates OSS interfaces: SNMP v2c, v3 CORBA Platforms: WiChorus EMS Server: Solaris Operating System version 10 Sun Java Runtime Environment 1.5.0 WiChorus EMS Client: Windows XP or Vista or Solaris Database: MySQl version 5.0.26 or later, Oracle version 10G or later

About WiChorus WiChorus is an industry leader in Smart 4G Packet Core infrastructure products. Its purpose-built SmartCore platforms unmatched performance with integrated content and network intelligence enables operators to deploy smart HSPA, lTE and WiMAX Packet Core networks, that optimize network resources, deliver new revenue generating services and monetize the Internet. With headquarter offices in San Jose, California, WiChorus is a private company with financial backing from Accel Partners, Mayfield Fund, Redpoint Ventures and Pinnacle Ventures. For more information, please visit www.wichorus.com.

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