OcularIP is LB Networks’ performance intelligence platform for carrier grade networks. OcularIP is a platform that helps telecom carriers prove, optimize, and monetize their network performance, while avoiding SLA penalties.
OcularIP connects technical performance to financial outcomes, giving you the insight needed to protect revenue and confidently manage your network.
The Business Service Portal (BSP) is an optional add-on to OcularIP that extends network performance insights to your customers, suppliers/members and other departments such as sales teams.
It leverages the optimized performance measurements in OcularIP with a modern user-friendly interface to share visibility, reporting, and graphics externally. It allows carriers to differentiate their services while building trust reducing calls and winning more business.
Type1+ is an optional add-on to OcularIP that enables “Off-Net as On-Net” visibility. It builds on the OcularIP foundation to provide full analytics and reporting of off-net circuits. Through its unique Synthetic Services engine you can measure and manage third-party network performance with the same level of insight as your own network.
With Type1+, operators will reduce the costs, MTTR, enable scaling and improve customer experience.
Type1+ works by combining synthetic monitoring with multi-source network data to create a complete, accurate view of off-net performance.
Using OcularIP Synthetic Services, it measures, monitors, and analyzes performance across third-party circuits, then applies advanced analytics and Availability Intelligence® to validate results. Then as with any circuit in OcularIP it can take advantage of OcularIP’s full suite of analytics, optimization, reporting and visualization.
This allows you to see, manage, and report on off-net performance as if it were on-net.
OcularIP Synthetic Services are the underlying technology that actively measures network performance, especially across off-net circuits where traditional monitoring is limited.
By generating and analyzing synthetic traffic, these services provide consistent, independent performance data that powers Type1+ and enables accurate visibility, reporting, and SLA validation across your entire network.
Supplier Management is a capability within OcularIP that helps you track, compare, and manage the performance of your network suppliers.
It provides visibility into availability, outages, and SLA compliance across providers, allowing you to identify trends, hold suppliers accountable, and make more informed sourcing and negotiation decisions.
Advanced analytics refers to the use of correlated network data, performance metrics, and modeling to identify issues, validate service levels, and predict risk across your network.
In OcularIP, advanced analytics go beyond basic monitoring by connecting performance data to real business outcomes like SLA compliance, penalties, and revenue impact.
Availability Intelligence® is OcularIP’s suite of analytics that encompasses network performance with operational aspects, force majeure, power, proven across hundreds of networks to provide the best true availability reporting. Minimizing SLA costs, and improving customer experience, operational efficiencies and financial outcomes.
It ensures that availability is calculated accurately and defensibly, helping you reduce penalties, recover credits, and confidently stand behind your performance data.
vCollector is a virtual data collection engine application that gathers real-time performance data from your network.
It enables continuous visibility into circuit performance by collecting, validating and standardizing data from multiple sources, forming the foundation for accurate analytics and reporting in OcularIP.
xCollect is an extended data collection capability that fill gaps where traditional monitoring tools fall short, allowing you to capture and analyze performance data across your entire network footprint, including supplier-managed circuits.
Service assurance is the process of continuously monitoring and validating network and service performance to ensure reliability and SLA compliance.
In telecom, service assurance tracks key metrics such as availability, latency, jitter, packet loss, utilization as well as Mean Time to Repair statistics so that carriers can verify contracted service levels, quickly identify issues, and maintain customer satisfaction. It also provides reliable data for reporting performance and protecting revenue.
Network assurance is focused measuring key performance indicators that determine network infrastructure health to ensure uptime, performance, and availability.
It provides granular insight into how your service is being delivered by leveraging information from network elements are performing, helping carriers detect outages early, optimize operations, and maintain a reliable backbone that supports services such as backhaul and enterprise connectivity.
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Service assurance in telecom ensures connectivity services meet agreed SLA performance metrics like uptime, latency, and packet loss.
This includes collecting instrumentation data, reporting actual performance versus contractual obligations, identifying issues before customers notice, and defending against inaccurate penalty claims using validated performance proof.
A backhaul network is the high-capacity transport path that carries traffic from access points like cell sites to the core network.
It moves voice, data, and internet traffic from distributed endpoints back to central processing or routing systems, impacting overall network performance, capacity, and latency. Backhaul can use fiber, microwave, satellite, or other transport technologies depending on deployment needs.
OcularIP: Delivering Backhaul Assurance & Network Visibility
Backhaul in networking is the transport segment that connects distributed access nodes back to a network’s central backbone.
It serves as the middle link between end users and core network systems, aggregating traffic from multiple sources and supporting scalable, efficient delivery of services like mobile, broadband, and enterprise connectivity.
OcularIP: Delivering Backhaul Assurance & Network Visibility
Backhaul in telecom refers to the critical transport layer that moves traffic between cell towers or local networks and the operator’s core network.
This high-capacity layer supports connectivity quality, scalability, and adherence to stringent SLA requirements, enabling mobile carriers and fiber providers to deliver consistent performance across their footprint.
OcularIP: Delivering Backhaul Assurance & Network Visibility
Network backhaul is the infrastructure that carries aggregated data from edge access points back to the core network.
Network backhaul refers to the connection infrastructure used to carry aggregated network traffic from access nodes back to the core network. It directly impacts network performance, speeds, latency, and service availability.
Types of connection infrastructure:
Each option provides a way to move large amounts of traffic from the edge of the network back to the core.
A backhaul network is the transport system that carries data from cell sites and other access points back to the main network backbone.
A backhaul network is what moves user traffic from the edge of the network to the core so it can be routed, processed, and delivered. The transport system is the high-capacity connection that moves this data. It can be built using fiber, microwave, satellite, or other wired and wireless links designed to handle large volumes of traffic reliably.
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Backhaul in 5G is the transport layer that connects 5G radio sites to the core network with higher capacity and lower latency.
Because 5G demands greater bandwidth and real-time performance, 5G backhaul employs advanced transport technologies like high-capacity fiber or high-speed microwave and ties into precise SLA tracking to support peak speeds and low-latency service requirements.
Cellular backhaul is the network transport that carries mobile traffic from cell towers to the core network.
High-quality cellular backhaul enables carriers to meet performance SLAs, support cloud applications, optimize coverage and capacity planning, and reduce costly penalty exposure through reliable reporting and analytics.