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This article is about the IT company Infosim GmbH & Co. KG with the network and services management software StableNet.

Infosim, GmbH & Co. KG is a German company that develops management software solutions for automated Service Fulfillment, Service Assurance, and Provisioning for Telcos, ISPs, Managed Service Providers, Cloud-SPs and Corporations [58]. Infosim® develops StableNet®, with the key focus on a unified software solution for Fault, Automated Root Cause Analysis, Performance and Configuration Management. Infosim company corporate headquarter is based in Wuerzburg, Germany, with regional headquarters in Austin, Texas, USA, Zervex, Singapore and a regional site (anaptis GmbH) in Muenster, Germany. Infosim was founded in 2003 as Spin-off of the university of Wuerzburg, Germany. The key founders Dr. Stefan Koehler, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Phuoc Tran Gia, Marius Heuler, Matthias Schmid, Joerg Haslbeck did design and implement a unified network management software to ease network operations. The goal was to overcome the deficiencies of split network management software composed of separate fault, performance, root cause and configuration management software and the hard to achieve consistent operations of the individual management solution components.

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Targeted challenges

History

Research Projects

Awards

References

Key network and services management challenges focus
Key network and services management challenges experienced by network and services operators to be addressed by network and services management solution designs:


 * 1) Ensuring consistent management data across Fault Management (FM), Performance Management (PM) , Automated Root Cause Analysis (RCA) , Configuration Management (CM), and Security Management (SM) , Experience on designing, implementing and deploying management solutions across several decades did reveal key challenges Telco, MSP and larger Enterprise operations did face. Over time the “Zoo of Management systems” kept steadily growing, as the operating organizations had to cope with adding dedicated management solutions for basically every new service and vendor solution they did roll out.  Having separate functional management modules in place did even make the situation worse, when the different modules would not work on the same consistent data base.   For the operators staff it does frequently lead to a very tedious, repeated and almost impossible to handle daily workload, keeping different management data base content consistent, across separate functional management modules and management systems - e.g. to have all data in a “repository” does not automatically imply that the management data is consistent. Even when considering simple location identifiers like using Munich as a location name with FM, using Muenchen in PM and using München in the Inventory data base as an identifier, it end up with 3 different location IDs for the same city! These challenges then do go further on with inconsistent device, link and termination (end) point identifiers.
 * 2) Support of Multi-Vendor, Multi-technology, Cross-Silo scenarios is required to avoid “Zoo of Management Systems” scenarios e.g. a separate management solution for every technology or new service.
 * 3) Operations Security support of Multi-client Managed Service Provider MSP / SaaS operations is required cross-technology for Industrial IoT and Cloud type management operations e.g. supporting distributed network and system domains, secure device access, and secure customer management data separation, multitenancy support, and secure IoT device onboarding (SDO), to name some examples.
 * 4) Management Automation support is required to reduce the daily workload to an economical level which operations staff can handle:
 * 5) * Discovery/ auto-inventory (multiple, automatable methods, based on RFC “standards” ,
 * 6) * Auto topology / connectivity / services recognition [Network topology] ,
 * 7) * Auto monitoring startup using commonly used KPI[Key Performance Indicator], derived KQI (Key Quality Indicator) [53] and QoS (Quality of Service parameters) ,
 * 8) * Automation of repeated jobs e.g. to react on events like alarm, execute a provisioning job, or send out automated and scheduled reports to dedicated users, and
 * 9) * Network Configuration and Change Management.
 * 10) Solution, architecture scalability and systems security is a key requirement for mult-client environments and e.g. to support and operate industrial IoT for thousands up to millions of IoT devices
 * 11) Visualization of the management information in a way to ease operations e.g. via user friendly and workflow dedicated operations and client dashboards is a key requirement for an efficient operation.
 * 12) Zero touch provisioning e.g. support of Zero Touch deployment support for large numbers of user attached new network, systems and IoT devices to keep deployment processes short, and to match with Customer (Experience ) expectations.
 * 13) Constant and flexible adaptability and openness is required to integrate within Operating Support System environments (OSS), Element Management Systems (EMS) , and to support existing and new technologies and standards within hybrid environments. e.g. TMF Business Process Framework (eToM) , 3GPP , ETSI-MANO , [SDN /NFV , MQTT / IoT , Virtual System /Virtual Machine technologies, aligned with the support for the commonly used management interworking technologies like SNMP , Syslog , Netflow , XML , RESTful Web service , CORBA , MTOSI.

History
2003: Infosim had been founded in 2003 as Spin-off of the university of Wuerzburg, Germany.

2004 – Infosim Singapore – Opening regional HQ in Singapore

2013 – Infosim US – Opening regional HQ

2016 Q2: Infosim joints Intel Network Builders Alliance with StableNet as a management solution for SDN/NFV and hybrid network management solutions.

2017 Q1: Infosim joins Intel IOT Group with StableNet as a management solution for secure, multi-client management of industrial IoT devices, networks and systems.

2018 Jan: Infosim is sponsoring handball sports team “DjK Rimpar Wolfes in the 2nd handball national league, Rimpar/Wuerzburg/Germany”.

2018-10-30: IoT Solutions World Congress: Intel, ARM, Hitachi and Infosim present integrated solution for Industrial IoT Device management with Intel Secure Device Onboard (SDO) and Infosim StableNet at IoT World congress Barcelona / Spain and win the TestBed Award “secure Device Provisioning – Intel and ARM Devices”.

2018-06-22 Infosim moves into its new HQ building in Wuerzburg / Germany.

2019-02-21: Infosim Anaptis Dynamics NAV/Navision.

Research Projects
Infosim cooperates with various national and international scientific institutions. These collaborations include the joint interworking on scientific projects with universities , as well as joint national and European research projects (currently on five ongoing projects: SarDiNe, SDN-Perf, Sendate, ROBOTOP and DiHP as outlined below).


 * CORDIS, European Commission (2003-2006), European centre of excellence in Next Generation Internet design.
 * German Lab, BMBF, (2008- 2012), German Lab „Germany-wide research and experimental facility; Investigate interworking of new technologies and emerging applications”.
 * SENDATE, EUREKA / Celtic-Plus, (2017, 2018, ff),  SENDATE “Secure Networking for a Data Center Cloud in Europe”.
 * SarDiNe, BMBF (2015,16,17, ff), „SDN based network security for corporations and government acencies”, „Netzsicherheit in Unternehmen und Behörden basierend auf Software Defined Networking.“
 * SIMPL, (2018-2021), Infosim, Hahn Schickard, MixedMode, Uni Würzburg, “Secure Internet of Things Management Platform”.
 * Robotop Konfigurator, BMWi, (2017, 2018, 2019, ff), “Modular,open and internet based platform for robotic applications for industry and services”.
 * DIHP, BMBF, Uni Wuerzburg (2017,2018, 2019,ff), Services Systems Innovation, „Dienstleistung für den integrierten Handel mit Produktionskapazitäten“.
 * PIMKoWe, Uni Wuerzburg, (2018, 2019), Research on Platforms for Digital Transformation to support small and mid sized enterprises, „Plattform für das integrierte Management von Kollaborationen in Wertschöpfungsnetzwerken“.
 * 5MART, UNI Wuerzburg, Infosim (2019-2022), 5G-capable Management of All Regional acTivities, “5G-capable Management of All Regional acTivities (5MART)”.
 * SDN-Perf, Uni Wuerzburg, Infosim, (2019-2021), (Bayerisches Förderprogramm IKT) .
 * ETSI's Zero-Touch Group, ETSI (2018), ETSI's Zero-Touch Group Launches First PoC, Focused on 5G Slicing, Carol Wilson, (2018-06-06), ETSI's Zero-Touch Group, ETSI's Zero-Touch Group Launches First PoC, Focused on 5G Slicing.

Awards

 * 2016 Infosim TMforum Catalyst Award, TM Forum Live! 2016, Nice/France, Smart Industrial Manufacturing: Robots-as-a-Service.
 * 2017 Infosim TMforum Catalyst Award, Digital Transformation World 2017, Nice/France, Logical Factory: Virtualizing Manufacturing for Agility..
 * 2018 Infosim TMforum Catalyst Award, Digital Transformation World 2018, Nice/France, Connected Citizens: The Smart City Accelerator – Phase II.
 * 2018, IoT Testbed Award, Intel, ARM, Hitachi, Infosim, (2018, Oct.), IoT Solutions Congress in Barcelona 2018, Infosim® wins Testbed Award on “Secure Device Provisioning – Intel and Arm Devices” at the IoT Solutions Congress in Barcelona 2018.