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Why Should You Choose ILOG JViews Telecom Graphic Objects (TGO)?
Creating and deploying Operations Support System (OSS) front-ends and other network visualization applications can be difficult. Most solutions in the marketplace offer a small subset of the necessary functionality, forcing development teams to mix solutions from a variety of sources and add a lot of custom code to fill the gaps. JViews TGO offers an alternative—the most complete solution to building custom telecom and datacom displays on the market.
Every approach to creating these displays has some key attributes which set them apart, so why should you choose JViews TGO?
From a company dedicated to your success
Don’t underestimate the effort required to deliver your application’s user interface. The expertise required goes beyond rendering objects on a screen. It may include connections to the back end data and state models, synchronization across displays, graphic design work, human factors knowledge, expertise in graph layout, mapping, Web deployment and more. For this reason, many telecom and datacom vendors turn to ILOG for help. The long track record and wide breadth of features in JViews products make it a safe, proven choice.
The choice of leaders
JViews TGO is the choice of telecom and datacom industry leaders. It is used by:
- 18 of the top 20 service providers
- 18 of the top 20 equipment manufacturers
- 25 of the top 40 optical equipment vendors
The TGO look-and-feel , adopted by many companies and used in several applications, is the industry standard.
Reduce development costs and risks
JViews TGO offers out-of-the-shelf software components and tools to quickly reach objectives without expert knowledge of network visualization. Projects can be delivered with reduced investments during conception, development and testing phases. Customers conservatively estimate that JTGO saves them a minimum of 50 percent of user interface development efforts.
The widest set of features for building displays
In the past, generating full-featured, sophisticated network management systems (NMS) and equipment management systems (EMS) front-ends required the use of low-level function libraries and primitive graphics. JViews TGO has changed that by providing access to high-level components and classes for creating rich, high-quality presentation layers that can be quickly and easily tailored to customer requirements. Through flexible styling, telecom visual languages, and custom user interfaces, the most complex design requirements are quickly fulfilled.
JViews TGO is packaged with JViews Maps for building physical network displays, and JViews Diagrammer, for building logical views with automatic graph layouts.
See all the benefits that Maps and Diagrammer have to offers.
Compliance to standards
JViews TGO is based on international and industry standards, including:
- TeleManagement Forum user interface design standards
- Operations Support System Through Java Initiative (OSS/J) Quality of Service
- State models: Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), Open Systems Interconnection (OSI), Bellcore, Synchronous Optical Network Technologies (SONET), and more
- Java, Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE), DHTML and Asynchroneous JavaScript and XML (AJAX)
JViews TGO allows programmers to leverage their existing experiences instead of having to learn new design schemes. The documentation covers different but complementary approaches to help architects and developers quickly meet their deadlines.
Built-in human factors
Architecture and implementation are key elements of a good user interface, but JViews TGO raises the level of user interface design with aesthetics and ergonomics. JViews TGO displays have always placed a premium on good user interface. Examples include:
- Consistent display of objects and alarms across all tabular or graphical views of data
- Intuitive display of multiple parameters on all graphical objects
- “Redundant coding” of alarms, to ensure that color-blind operators have multiple cues
- Effective use of color
- Propagation of alarms “up” the network hierarchy
- Pre-built algorithms to rearrange logical views of the network, for maximum operator comprehension
- Dozens of pre-built graphical components and the ability to create new components
- The ability to easily change the user interface on displays, while still maintaining good ergonometric traits
- Promotion of human factors industry standards , such as TeleManagement Forum
Ease of integration.
JViews TGO’s component-based approach guarantees easy integration with virtually any kind of architecture and third party products, middleware, and database, or legacy code. JViews TGO frequently uses tools and technologies such as J2EE, Java Database Connectivity (JDBC), Java Remote Method Invocation (RMI), Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA), XML, TCP/IP sockets, HTTP/HTTPS, OSS/J and SNMP. JViews products are compliant with JavaBeans and JavaServer Faces technologies and can be used in popular Java-based integrated development environments (IDE).
Continual Improvement
ILOG customers have provided valuable feedback on JViews TGO, and ILOG has incorporated much
of this feedback into the product. Strong relationships with customers including Nortel, Deutsche
Telekom, NTT, Hewlett-Packard, InfoVista and IBM have helped ILOG design and develop a product
to give maximum efficiency to operators.
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