Nortel has unveiled a new network management platform, by embedding IBM’s Tivoli Netcool software as the foundation. The Common Management Platform claims to deliver network control capabilities with a common feature set across the entire family of Nortel’s Service Provider solutions.

"Nortel’s enhanced management platform brings a new approach to delivering network management solutions for service providers," said Craig Farrell, CTO, Tivoli Netcool for IBM.

The platform features a hardened security framework, a common set of network management applications, and a common service assurance suite. It claims to provide consistency and a standard operational model across Nortel’s Carrier Networks and Metro Ethernet Networks portfolios.

"We are enabling significant operational expense savings for our service provider customers as they migrate to Ethernet, while bringing the best of the circuit-based operational model they are accustomed to with Nortel management solutions," said Scott McFeely, Metro Ethernet Networks business leader for Nortel.