Summary: OcularIP® 8.0 helps telecom teams turn trusted performance data into faster service assurance action with Smart Outages, Modern View, enhanced Global Search, calendar-based event visibility, Month-to-Date reporting, and expanded intelligence for SLA management, compliance, availability, analytics, and AI initiatives.
We are excited to announce the release of OcularIP 8.0. OcularIP 8.0 delivers a broad set of enhancements automatically to OcularIP customers, including:
- Smart Outages: To enhance SLA analysis and associated credit disputes
- Modern View: A fully modernized user experience with improved Global Search
- More Timely Visibility into Service Events and Performance: With calendar-based service event visibility and Month-to-Date reporting in the Modern Ticket Manager
More details of these features are below.
These new capabilities work together so teams move faster from performance data to confident service assurance action, including identifying service impacts, managing compliance, monitoring current-month results, and create more Passes while preparing data for broader analytics and AI initiatives.
The release also introduces:
- xCollect trusted data management application with extensibility-as-a-Service
- expanded bandwidth-on-demand capabilities in the Business Service Portal (BSP)
- additional eCompliance Intelligence
- advanced service-impact analysis
- expanded Supplier Management analytics and grading
- Type1+ Off-Net circuit as On-Net Synthetic Visibility enhancements
- enriched A-Z circuit visibility without an NID(!) in Synthetic NID services
OcularIP 8.0 is designed to help customers:
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Smart Outages: Enhancing SLA analysis and associated credit disputes
Advancing Availability Intelligence and further optimizing eCompliance results
One of the most significant OcularIP 8.0 enhancements is Smart Outages, an advancement within OcularIP Availability Intelligence® and eCompliance analysis. Smart Outages is designed to accelerate outage analysis and processing, including second based eCompliance SLA analysis, so teams can assess service impacts even faster while improving the efficiency of compliance reporting.
OcularIP can analyze service-impacting events and generate candidate Smart Outage recommendations for user review. Once validated, recommended Smart Outage tickets can be created with a single click. This reduces the manual effort traditionally required to identify, document, and process qualifying events while preserving user review and approval.
Business Impact of Smart Outages
| • Faster SLA impact assessment and analysis | • Reduced compliance administration |
| • Improved outage identification and processing | • Greater accuracy and improvement in availability calculations |
| • Accelerated compliance reporting | • Validated support of reporting vs. stringent carrier SLA requirements |
| • Better service-performance visibility | • Higher confidence in SLA and availability outcomes |
Modern View: A Unified Experience Across OcularIP
The most visible change in Release 8.0 is the expanded Modern View experience, now available across the platform. The updated interface is designed to be cleaner, faster, and more intuitive, helping users navigate OcularIP more efficiently while creating a consistent foundation for future innovation.
Modern View provides a unified navigation experience across Home, Circuits, Events, Reports, Tickets, Provisioning, and Administration.
Previous releases introduced Modern View capabilities in selected areas. With OcularIP 8.0, that experience extends throughout the platform, giving current customers a more consistent way to work across operational, reporting, and administrative functions. The prior legacy user experience is now officially deprecated.
Enhanced Global Search: Faster Access to the Information Teams Need
Enhanced Global Search expands how users locate information across domains, labels, services, assets, and performance data. For teams responsible for large service inventories or multiple customer environments, reducing the time spent navigating between areas of the platform can translate directly into faster investigations and more efficient daily workflows.
| • Cleaner, more intuitive navigation | • Faster access to service and performance information |
| • Consistent workflows across the platform | • Simpler user adoption and day-to-day productivity |
| • Expanded Global Search | • A modern foundation for future OcularIP innovation |
More Timely Visibility into Service Events and Performance
OcularIP 8.0 also introduces new capabilities that help service assurance and network teams understand what is happening across the service environment, and how those events may affect customer experience, availability, and SLA outcomes.
Calendar-Based Service Event Visibility
A new Calendar View within the Modern Ticket Manager presents service-impacting activity in a familiar timeline. Users can quickly identify days containing outage tickets, maintenance exclusions, and informational events without manually searching through ticket records or individual reports.
This view helps teams recognize patterns, validate maintenance activity, review historical events, and correlate periods of elevated activity with availability and compliance results. When combined with Service Intelligence, Ticket Visualization, Heat Mapping, and impact-analysis workflows, the Calendar View provides another practical layer of situational awareness.
Month-to-Date Reporting for Earlier Management Insight
Release 8.0 expands OcularIP report subscriptions beyond Daily, Weekly, and Monthly schedules with a new Month-to-Date (MTD) option. Current-month reports can now be delivered automatically, giving leaders earlier visibility into SLA attainment, service levels, availability trends, and compliance metrics before the month closes.
| Why this matters to management
Month-to-Date visibility can help teams identify developing performance or compliance issues earlier, support more timely operational discussions, and reduce reliance on month-end reporting to understand current service trends and associated SLA compliance. |
What OcularIP 8.0 Means for Network and Service Leaders
For current OcularIP customers, Release 8.0 strengthens both the user experience and the operational intelligence behind it while supporting the outcomes telecommunications leaders are measured on. Modern View simplifies how teams navigate the platform, while enhanced search, calendar-based event visibility, Month-to-Date reporting, and Smart Outages help users move faster from performance information to action.
For more information about OcularIP 8.0, contact your LB Networks representative or support@lbnetworks.co.
Frequently Asked Questions
OcularIP 8.0 is the latest release of OcularIP, delivering enhancements that help telecom teams improve service intelligence, SLA management, compliance, availability, and operational efficiency.
Smart Outages helps automate outage analysis by identifying service-impacting events and generating candidate outage recommendations for user review. Once validated, users can create Smart Outage tickets with a single click, reducing manual effort and accelerating SLA analysis.
OcularIP 8.0 introduces a unified Modern View, enhanced Global Search, Calendar View for service events, and Month-to-Date reporting. These capabilities help teams access performance information faster and identify developing SLA, availability, and compliance issues earlier.