OmniVista Cirrus

Alcatel-Lucent OmniVista® Cirrus release 10, a new cloud SaaS Network Management solution offers advanced centralized visibility and configuration for Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Portfolio. Offered as a subscription service, it provides is a scalable, resilient, secure, native, cloud-based network management system for unified access. Relying on state-of-the-art microservices architecture and developed with the latest Cloud methodologies and tools, OmniVista Cirrus Release 10 facilitates your digital transformation. It features intuitive configuration workflows, comprehensive troubleshooting for LAN & WLAN, real-time and historical monitoring. With advanced zero trust access policies for visibility and, OmniVista Cirrus 10 offers total enablement for Internet of Things (IoT) with micro-segmentation, and advanced identification of networkconnected devices.

OmniVista Cirrus provides an easy-to-deploy, effective way to provide Orchestration over the cloud and monitor Alcatel-Lucent OmniAccess® Stellar Access Point infrastructure and OmniSwitch devices. It provides a single point of management for advanced analytics and proactive service assurance. Unified Policies Access Manager (UPAM), a Network Access Control (NAC) embedded module includes enterprise-wide authentication, role management, policy capabilities for guest access, and BYOD. OmniVista Cirrus is designed to improve wireless user insights by providing detailed user Quality of Experience (QoE) and behavior analytics.

OmniVista Cirrus is a subscription-based service that facilitates alignment with your new business and budget imperatives. Ease of purchasing, provisioning and ongoing daily operations are at the core of OmniVista Cirrus. Shifting to a cloud-based network management solution with OmniVista Cirrus simplifies digital transformation by reducing cost and administrative IT burden. 

OmniVista Cirrus protects your network infrastructure investment by adapting to changing business needs without the expense of “rip and replace.”

OmniVista Cirrus sets a new IT experience standard for simple yet powerful capabilities. It can scale and adapt to your business requirements. It offers advanced visibility and control over users and applications. 

By focusing on core IT operations, the comprehensive management OmniVista Cirrus solution makes it easy to improve
application performance and troubleshoot issues in deployments with distributed locations and limited IT staff..

OmniVista Cirrus, as a native cloud-based network management platform backed with a microservices architecture, delivers valuable outcomes such as continuous improvement without downtime, always up to date, scalability, and security. The automatic software update, including critical security patches, improves security and Vulnerability fixes and best practices compliance.

Investment protection
• Minimal device reconfiguration when migrating from on-prems to Cloud based deployment with Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise devices
• Full Solution support for Alcatel -Lucent Enterprise portfolio operating either as Capex devices or under Network as A Service (NaaS) Opex operating models for optimal cost flexibility

Flexible Offer Model
• Flexible consumption options aligned with financial requirements
• Available in Full Opex Model (Flexible Pay) for specific payment and duration terms or Prepaid/Upfront payment
• Option to bundle device hardware and maintenance support with their Network Management cloud Service
• Simplified Subscription operations for maximum flexibility maximizing the use and value of Platform over their contracted terms

Simplified IT
• Cloud Hosted service removing Infrastructure management and costs, providing data security and constant protection, and security updates.
• Continuous delivery of innovations without service disruption Multi-site management • Provides centralized management of multiple organizations or physical sites.
• Consolidates critical management information from across the entire network for a global and consistent network experience.

Multi-tenancy services 
• Multi-client level with simplified network administration
• Easily control who has access to which client network and tenant with the appropriate role-based network. administration credentials
• See all relevant management statuses, all-important network events and alerts from a single dashboard

Highly scalable 
• Subscription model designed to scale and adapt to your business transformation imperatives and new business model
• Cloud elasticity to support small to large cloud scalability, from small to large network deployments without reconfiguration 

Highly available 
• Hosted in multiple regional data centers with best-in-class availability and resiliency
• Maximum availability is ensured with backup and redundant services and disaster recovery provided by each data center

Highly secure 
• Software as a Service (SaaS) application hosted in SOC1 and SOC2 data centres
• OmniVista Cirrus with separation of out-of-band control plane (management traffic) and user data
• Secure communications with the highest level of protection using certificates ranging from a mutual cloud to device authentication
• Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) to secure network administration

Simplified onboarding and provisioning
• Lower costs by enabling the deployment of new devices in minutes and without on-site support visits, eliminating repetitive tasks and on-site support visit
• Simplified devices onboarding process with Zero-touch provisioning for Stellar access points and for OmniSwitch through template automation
• Minimal network expertise is required for initial enterprise network setup and daily operations, offloading IT resources.

Advanced monitoring and troubleshooting
• Comprehensive unified wired and wireless dashboard for pro-active monitoring and simplified troubleshooting for pro-active monitoring and simplified troubleshooting
• Network health and Wired and Wireless assurance provide global network-wide visibility into key Key Performances Indicators (KPI) for troubleshooting process and resolution.
• Troubleshooting with alarm and event lists with historical and real-time data view
• Quickly identify potential Wi-Fi connectivity issues related to DHCP, DNS, authentication failures through Quality of Experience (QoE) measurements
• Gain visibility on wireless client health performances 

Integrated NAC 
• Alcatel-Lucent Unified Policy Access Manager (UPAM) integrates identity, policies and user/device roles in a single user interface, reducing the learning curve and minimizing IT resources
• Enterprise 802.1x authentication with internal or external sources including RADIUS, AD, LDAP, Microsoft Entra AD (Microsoft Azure AD)
• Extensive guest access and BYOD support for onboarding and managing visitor and employee personal devices
• Fully customizable captive portal with integrated credentials management for email, SMS, and social Login (Facebook, Microsoft 365, Rainbow™ by Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise)

IoT enablement 
• Seamless discovery and categorizing of network IoT devices
• Automatic enforcement, with Access Role Profiles, providing micro-segmentation for Operational Technology (OT) networks.

Device software compliance
• Optimal OmniAccess Stellar AP firmware update, for security compliance and vulnerability management
• Device software version upgrade based on Scheduling, (best software version and AP group selection) reducing maintenance window