OcularIP’s Type1+ Synthetic Services App Series
Revolutionary applications that transform off-net services into on-net.
For decades, delivering off-net services has required a physical Network Interface Device (NID) to achieve end-to-end visibility. While effective, NIDs introduce additional expense, deployment delays, complexity, and operational friction that slow service delivery, marginalize operational effectiveness and increase cost.
Type1+ Synthetic NID fundamentally changes this model.
As part of the Type1+ Application Series, LB Networks’ Type1+ Synthetic NID application uses innovative OcularIP analytics to deliver true A-Z performance visibility without deploying hardware, allowing carriers to scale off-net services with the same speed, consistency, and discipline as on-net Type 1 services.
The Challenge with Traditional Off-Net Architectures
In a typical off-net deployment:
- Circuit A runs from your on-net infrastructure to an NNI
- Circuit B runs from the NNI through an off-net carrier to the customer
- You sell and support the combined A-Z service
To bridge visibility gaps, carriers deploy NIDs, adding cost, delay, and operational burden while introducing new failure points. What if carriers didn’t have to?
What Is Type1+ Synthetic NID?
Type1+ Synthetic NID is an analytics intelligence driven service that creates a virtual end-to-end circuit by combining performance data from Circuit A and Circuit B into a single synthetic Circuit C, without requiring any physical device.
No hardware.
No installation.
No operational drag.
How It Works
- OcularIP collects PMR data from your on-net circuit (Carrier A)
- OcularIP collects PMR data from your off-net carrier (Carrier B)
- Data is exchanged securely via the OcularIP Digital Exchange (see below)
- The Type1+ Synthetic Service Engine calculates an A-Z circuit with full KPIs
The result behaves accurately as a physical NID-based circuit for analytics, visibility and reporting perspective.
Operational Capabilities
Synthetic circuits support:
- Full performance analytics and visualization
- SLA reporting, exclusion and optimization
- Root-cause analysis and supplier grading
- Hierarchical service “treeing”
Anything you can do with a physical circuit; you can do with a synthetic one.
Proven at Carrier Scale
Type1+ Synthetic NID has been deployed in production networks with nearly one million circuit-months of operational data and accuracy exceeding 99.999999% (nine nines).
Technology-Agnostic by Design
Supporting over 500 network technologies, OcularIP’s xCollect architecture normalizes data across vendors, collection methods, and intervals, so operators focus on outcomes, not data mechanics.
Why Network Teams Deploy Type1+ Synthetic NID
- Eliminate NID capital and lifecycle cost
- Accelerate off-net service turn-up
- Standardize off-net operations
- Reduce inter-carrier troubleshooting friction
Part of the OcularIP Type1+ Application Series
Type1+ is a family of advanced analytics applications built on OcularIP’s federated xCollect architecture. Each Type1+ application addresses a specific off-net operational challenge while sharing a common data model, analytics engine, and visualization framework.
Together, Type1+ applications enable carriers to scale off-net services with on-net discipline; reducing cost, enhancing operations, and restoring accountability across complex multi-carrier environments.
Ready to Eliminate NIDs?
- Schedule a Type1+ demo
- See how Synthetic NID fits your architecture
- Quantify savings and operational impact
Contact LB Networks today to start the conversation.
Frequently Asked Questions About Synthetic NIDs and End-to-End Network Visibility
With OcularIP’s unique synthetic services engine, telecom carriers can achieve end-to-end, on-net, and off-net circuit visibility without deploying hardware. OcularIP combines performance data from multiple network segments to calculate a virtual A-to-Z circuit with full KPI visibility.
A synthetic NID creates a virtual end-to-end circuit using performance data from multiple network segments. OcularIP enables carriers to monitor, measure, report and visualize service performance without installing a physical NID!
OcularIP eliminates the need for hardware by generating a virtual end-to-end circuit from performance data. This reduces costs, complexities, troubleshooting, MTTR, reduces installation delays and challenges, all the while simplifying network operations.