AT&T’s data communications arm AT&T Paradyne has announced that it will be marketing in Europe AT&T’s Accumaster Integrator network management system, first introduced in the US back in April last year (CI No 1,174). The Accumaster has been described as the jewel in the crown of AT&T’s Unified Network Management Architecture, UNMA, which is designed to integrate the various network management systems that exist on a complex private network, including those that do not support AT&T’s Network Management Protocol. Accumaster can access information and testing capabilities from non-AT&T element management systems such as Systems Center’s Net/Master and IBM’s NetView. Options also exist to interface to SNA environments, enabling an SNA host to transmit the data and alarms of logical networks to Accumaster, which then combines that data and displays it graphically with the rest of the information received from the element management systems. Alarm correlation is provided so that as alarms are received, secondary alarms are automatically suppressed, allowing the route cause of the problem to be pin-pointed more quickly. AT&T Paradyne says that over 50 vendors are planning to develop products that interface to the Accumaster Integrator. In its basic configuration, the Accumaster comes with one AT&T 3B2/600 computer, a Sun Unix workstation, connections to two element management systems, software, and peripherals. Pricing starts at UKP175,000 with an average configuration of three element management systems, three workstations, a 3B2/600, applications software and the SNA management application option costing around UKP250,000. Accumaster Integrator will be available in the fourth quarter 1990.
