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AUSPICE® ANNOUNCES REAL-TIME MONITORING AND TESTING SOLUTION FOR DOCSIS HMS TRANSPONDER-ENABLED POWER SUPPLIES

Proactively Monitors Power Supply Performance, Alarms and Events in Real Time

Waltham, MA – January 18, 2006 –Auspice Corporation, the industry’s leading provider of real-time operations automation solutions for communications service providers, today introduced its latest product innovation, Auspice OpsLogic® PowerSense™.  Auspice PowerSense is an automated power supply maintenance, testing, performance power outage event monitoring and reporting solution that uses DOCSIS HMS Transponders to quickly integrate a cable operator’s power supply management with their existing management and trouble ticketing systems. This enables cable operators to detect any outages and proactively monitor power supply performance, alarms and events in real time. PowerSense also utilizes DOCSIS HMS Transponders to test power supplies, and to schedule standard tests as well as on-demand tests of groups of transponders.

“With the majority of their delivery challenges related directly to the health of the HFC plant, cable operators recognize that a key aspect to ensuring Quality of Service is the ability to effectively manage their plant’s power resources,” explains Gary Cunha, Auspice Director of Products. “DOCSIS-based HMS Transponders provide a way for cable operators to do this by monitoring power supplies affecting their HFC plants. PowerSense enhances this ability by providing remote monitoring capabilities via the DOCSIS HMS Transponder to proactively manage the outages, alarms and events that affect the HFC plant’s power supplies.”

Proactive Responses to Most Common HFC Plant Power Monitoring and Reporting Problems

PowerSense enables cable operators to proactively address many of their HFC Plant power monitoring and reporting challenges, including:

• Providing a common interface for monitoring and testing power supplies with DOCSIS HMS Transponders from major vendors, including AM Communications, Tollgrade, Electroline, and Phoenix Broadband, ensuring Element Management System and DOCSIS HMS Transponder interoperability.
• Testing the power supply in the event of an AC power failure to ensure there is sufficient voltage, current and duration to operate the HFC plant until AC power is restored or a generator is added to continue operation.  The power supplies can be tested individually or in groups by upstream, node or CMTS.
• Eliminating the tedious manual process for entering power supplies into a monitoring system. PowerSense has three methods for discovering DOCSIS HMS Transponders on power supplies and then monitors them for outages, switching to batteries, and other events. These events can result in NMS notification by SNMP traps, a trouble ticket, or they can be included in higher level HFC event correlation.

PowerSense Features

• Centralized monitoring of power supplies with DOCSIS HMS Transponders for performance and outages
• Automated scheduled testing
• On-demand testing
• Configuration driven
• Well-defined integration options
• Automatic alarm management
• Automatic trouble ticket management
• Historical event information
• Web-based report generation and ability to export
• Rules-based performance monitoring and alarm generation.
• Password protected web-based administration GUI

Key PowerSense Functions

Transponder Inventory

• Up-to-date inventory of HMS Transponders by polling on a daily basis or on-demand

Event Monitoring

• Power supply status monitoring and event-based performance monitoring; Actively monitors for configurable events from DOCSIS HMS Transponders-enabled power supplies

Transponder Events

• Event-based performance data is captured and displayed in the On-Demand Power Supply Status Report

Performance Monitoring

• Configurable, periodic logging, threshold monitoring and reporting of power supply performance data

Web-based GUI

• Transponder Status
• Current Node P/S Status
• Power Supply Performance Details Report
• Performance Exceptions Report
• Power Supply Exceptions and Events
• Current Power Supply Alarms
• Power Supply Alarm Event History
• Power Supply Test Status
• On Demand Test Results

Testing

• Test report generation; notification via an E-mail
• Automatic testing schedules using a password-protected web-based UI.
• Manual testing on groups of power supplies
• Web-based UI reports; Ability to abort or cancel scheduled/in progress tests.
• Trouble tickets on any failed tests using custom extensions
• Ability to exclude specific transponders from testing

Historical Plots

• Historical Plots can be generated using a custom extension.

About Auspice

Auspice provides service assurance solutions that automate manual operation support processes for North America’s leading MSOs and communications service providers. Auspice solutions monitor, integrate and correlate events across the entire infrastructure, and enable real-time integration and automation of customers’ Network Operations Center (NOC), Customer Support, and Field Service operations to proactively manage all their IP-based broadband services. Through the intelligent automation Auspice solutions deliver, customers realize tangible, documented business benefits that include increased reliability and operational efficiencies that deliver superior customer experiences and a fast, high, and continuous return on investment.

Founded in 1997, Auspice (www.auspicecorp.com) corporate headquarters are located in
Waltham, MA.

For more information, contact:
Laura Burke                
Auspice Corporation                                         
781-398-3212
lburke@auspicecorp.com

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