Clear joins HP OpenView Solution Alliance Program.

Clear, a supplier of optical, broadband and digital performance management software, has announced it has joined the Hewlett-Packard OpenView Solution Alliance Program as a Solution Level partner. The company plans to deliver a solution, integrated with HP OpenView management software, to monitor the transport layer (layer one) of the network. The solution will be designed to enable real-time performance-based service assurance and end-to-end service management for both service providers and the enterprise market. With 60 percent of service-affecting problems occurring at the transport layer of the network, which impacts all protocols (layers one through seven), Clear helps provide HP OpenView software with the functionality to monitor mission-critical transport technologies including SONET/SDH, DWDM and T/E-carrier. Additionally, as part of Clear's real-time performance-based service assurance offerings, service providers and enterprises receive customer-centric circuit status, historical performance reporting, trends, SLA compliance reporting and threshold violation alerts. Clear's software module is easily integrated into HP's clients' existing OSS frameworks (inventory, provisioning, fault, customer care, etc.) and key HP OpenView modules including: Service Information Portal, TeMIP, Service Quality Manager, Performance Insight, Operations and Network Node Manager. www.clear.com/www.openview.hp.com