Millennium Networks' partnership with SolarWinds and Customization of their Orion NPM Product stems from the need to help our customers with the SNMP managed WAN equipment.  Manufacturers today are consistently throwing the ball over the fence into the lap of their customers and saying their SONET, DWDM, and Microwave products are easily SNMP managed.  Most of the time this is not true unless you buy their very expensive proprietary management systems.  In addition, much of the SNMP management software on the market today is intended to manage PCs, switches and routers, and has very little flexibility to meet the needs of managing SONET, DWDM, WiMAX, or Microwave.  Customization, network map overlays, alarm management, historical reports and graphs are difficult to implement and doing so with most SNMP management software often feels like driving a 60s Ford Falcon.  Orion NPM from SolarWinds is like getting into a new Corvette.  Though designed and intended to manage PCs, switches and routers, nearly everything is customizable, from layered maps to alarms, to charts and graphs, to reports.  With an entry software fee of under $2500, the software can run on a Windows laptop and provides everything you need to manage a small number of network nodes.  For reliability and support of a medium sized network, we are delivering a fully customized turn-key system to your specifications for around $18K that also includes a server with multiple processors, redundant power, and drives.  If you would like a look at screen shots of the customization done for Cielo Networks’ Microwave Systems, please click here.