Silicon Strategy - National Network of Research Management

Ipê Network Management

From 2006 to 2008, Silicon Strategy was in charge of developing the failure management system to the Ipê network, an IP network administered by the National Education and Research Network (RNP).

RNP is the Brazilian infrastructure of advanced network for collaboration and communication in the fields of teaching and research. Besides connecting all federal institutions of higher education and research, this infrastructure provides a testbed for the experimental development of new applications and network services for the benefit of its users.

One of the biggest RNP's challenges at that time was the organization and automatization of the manual procedures designed to manage network failures and recovery, identifying the root cause of problems and acting effectivelly and efficiently. Lynx Enterprise project, led by Silicon Strategy, measured it up and was their choice.

Lynx Enterprise is a platform developed by Silicon Strategy's development team to help the network consultancy projects provided by the company. It is focused on automating network management procedures. It is not sold separately, but as part of the services offered by Silicon Strategy.

Lynx provides automatic mechanisms to manage IT and network infrastructure. Its main characteristcs are:

Business Goal: alignment between business processes view and the IT infrastructure needed to it works properly;
Flexibility: each environment is managed accordingly to its peculiarities;
Evolution: it evolves as the company evolves, in terms of business processes or technologies applied;
Productivity Gains: it is focused on the efficiency. Repetitive works are automated by mapped procedures;
Knowledge Maintenance: the use of the platform forces the documentation of every work done regularly by the network management team, what means to describe intelligibly every piece of knowledge in the network management matters.

These functionalities were considered very important to a critical environment such as the RNP's network, whose services are provided for approximately 600 research institutions and governmental agencies around Brazil. Some of them works 24x7, ininterruptely.