See every alarm, every link, every service. Before your customers do.
Network Management Experts LLC helps enterprises, data centers and service providers design, deploy and automate the systems that watch over their networks, from fault and performance monitoring with Spectrum, SevOne, Splunk and Grafana to multi-domain service orchestration.
What we do
Hands-on, senior-level consulting for the full network management lifecycle: architecture, deployment, integration, automation and ongoing operations.
Network Observability & Monitoring
Fault, performance and event monitoring for data-center and carrier networks that operators trust: device onboarding, alarm mapping, SNMP trap processing, event correlation, dashboards and alert policies.
Service Orchestration & Inventory
Deployment, upgrade and customization of Ciena Blue Planet MDSO, BPI, MCP and OneControl, plus HLD/LLD authoring, MOPs and UAT for production rollouts.
OSS/BSS Integration & Architecture
Northbound and southbound integration patterns, API contracts and data models aligned with TM Forum Open APIs, SID and eTOM for service activation and inventory feeds.
Monitoring Automation
Automated device onboarding, configuration and event-management workflows using Python, shell, Ansible and REST API integration, cutting manual effort and human error.
Network & NMS Security
Security architecture and hardening for management platforms, vulnerability scanning, fuzz testing and remediation plans, and technical responses to security RFPs and audits.
Test Automation & Validation
Automated test suites and CI pipelines for NMS and orchestration platforms, device certification, user acceptance testing and customer training.
Monitoring for data centers that can't go dark
Enterprise data-center networks carry trading, payments and customer-facing workloads, where an unnoticed link or device fault quickly becomes a business incident. We help operations teams build monitoring and event management they can trust across large multi-vendor estates.
- Fault management & event correlation. Alarm mapping, SNMP trap processing and root-cause correlation that cut noise and speed triage.
- Performance & capacity. Interface, device and flow telemetry to spot congestion early and plan capacity with data.
- Device onboarding at scale. Scripted, API-driven onboarding so new switches and routers are monitored from day one.
- Dashboards & alerting. Real-time views for the NOC, engineering and leadership, with alert policies and escalation procedures.
- Monitoring standards & upgrades. Consistent standards across teams, and planned, low-risk upgrades of monitoring platforms.
From the network element to the business system
We work across every layer of the management stack, so data flows cleanly from devices in the field to the dashboards, orchestrators and OSS/BSS systems your teams rely on.
Network
Optical, Ethernet and IP devices from Ciena, Cisco, Juniper, ADVA and others
Collection
SNMP, Syslog, NetFlow/sFlow, TL1 and streaming telemetry
Observability
Fault, performance and event correlation in Broadcom Spectrum, IBM SevOne, Cisco Splunk and Grafana
Orchestration
Service activation and inventory with Blue Planet MDSO, BPI and MCP
OSS / BSS
Ticketing, assurance and billing through TM Forum Open APIs
How an engagement runs
A single senior practitioner from assessment through handover, so nothing is lost between the architect and the person doing the work.
Assess
Review your current tools, coverage gaps, alarm noise and integration points with your operations team.
Design
Deliver a clear architecture: HLD/LLD, integration patterns, monitoring policies and a phased rollout plan.
Deliver
Deploy, configure and automate in lab and production, backed by MOPs, UAT and change control.
Operate & hand over
Tune thresholds and dashboards, document runbooks, and train your team to run it with confidence.
Deep, hands-on tool experience
Two decades of work across multi-vendor optical, Ethernet and IP networks and the systems that manage them.
- Data-center monitoring
- Broadcom Spectrum (fault & event), IBM SevOne Data Insight (performance & telemetry), Cisco Splunk (log & event analytics), Grafana (dashboards), Nagios
- Data-center networking
- Cisco, Arista and Juniper switching and routing; SNMP trap and alarm policy design; device onboarding; event management and escalation procedures
- Carrier NMS
- Ciena OneControl, NCS, ON-Center, MCP
- Orchestration & inventory
- Ciena Blue Planet MDSO, BPI, MCP, Blue Planet Analytics; SDN/NFV and multi-domain orchestration
- Network equipment
- Ciena 6500, 8700, 4200, 54xx, 39xx, CN3000; Cisco ASR; Juniper MX; Arista; ADVA FSP; Huawei
- Protocols
- SNMP v1/v2c/v3, Syslog, NetFlow, sFlow, TL1, OSPF, MPLS, SD-WAN, OTN, SONET/SDH, DWDM/CWDM, LDAP, RADIUS
- Automation & DevOps
- Python, Shell, Ansible, REST APIs, Postman/Newman, Cucumber, Jenkins, TeamCity, Git
- Cloud & platforms
- Kubernetes, GKE, Red Hat OpenShift, Docker, Red Hat Linux
- Standards
- TM Forum Open APIs, SID, eTOM; FCAPS; SDLC; ISO 9001 / TL 9000
Senior expertise, delivered directly
Network Management Experts LLC is a Georgia-based consultancy built on more than 22 years of hands-on network management work, much of it inside a leading optical networking vendor's network management division, designing, deploying and supporting Blue Planet and OneControl solutions for global Tier-1 service providers.
That experience spans the full lifecycle: requirements and architecture, customer design workshops, production deployments and upgrades, OSS/BSS integration, security hardening and test automation. More recently it extends to enterprise data-center monitoring and observability automation in financial services.
- Senior hands on every engagement. The person who designs your solution also builds it.
- Vendor-neutral advice. Recommendations based on your network, not a product quota.
- Security built in. CISSP-trained, with years of NMS security architecture work.
- Documentation your team can use. HLD/LLD, MOPs, runbooks and training at handover.
Let's talk about your network
Planning a monitoring overhaul, an orchestration rollout, or need an experienced hand on a project already underway? Reach out for a no-obligation conversation.
Serving clients from the Atlanta metro area. Available for remote engagements worldwide and on-site in the Southeast.