Vulcan Overview Vulcan Overview Information Sources Analysis Outcomes Vulcan Overview Vulcan is a network performance monitoring system for broadband services. The system integrates information gathered from various sources and presents one coherent view of the network's performance and the quality of service provided to the users. Vulcan's analysis provides practical and meaningful information rather than flooding the user with raw performance data. The raw data is filtered and summarized according to the user's needs.
Information is expressed based on the customer's terms and business objectives.
Vulcan integrates information from various sources that may include network nodes, management systems and probes. The information gathered contains statistics on network usage, performance levels, circuit connectivity and element status. Vulcan collects information gathered by other systems, and also actively invokes performance monitoring sessions and retrieves their results. A report is an analyzed summary of specific performance information, produced periodically. An event is an alert about a network malfunction or a major change in performance.