Ceon IAS is a product within Ceon’s product management and service fulfillment software platform. IAS supports service activation for traditional and advanced services, such as High Speed Data, VoIP, Video, IP-Centrex, Hosted PBX and IP-TV. IAS accepts activation requests using a Java API and web services interfaces. The IAS application is a single point-of-control for automated flow-through activation, manual provisioning and configuration. IAS optimizes provisioning tasks by prioritizing requests, managing the flow of requests, managing connections and providing low latency and high throughput activation.

Processing Provisioning Requests
A client application such as order management systems can send provisioning commands directly to an IAS node, which adds requested work to the queue. An available IAS node processes the work and returns the result to the client application. IAS is de-coupled from the request payload, which allows flexibility in format of requests sent to adapters and decreased serialization costs.

Flow Control
IAS allows configurable control of the number of simultaneous requests that can be made of any device, preventing them becoming flooded with requests.

Connection Management
IAS can be configured to maintain a number of open connections to devices. This reduces the per-order overhead involved in setting up and tearing down connections to those devices. The maximum lifetime of those connections can be controlled on a per-device basis, and connections can be configured to close early if there is little traffic for a particular device.

Work Queue Management
IAS manages queues on a per-device, per-priority basis. A variety of queue persistence options are used to optimize performance, including in memory queue. The queue is replicated across the cluster for reliability, and the queue size can be capped by the number of messages or capped by size (KB).

Centralized Administration
IAS has JMX instrumentation and data/statistics capture capability for integration with common NMS tools. It provides automatic database management which eliminates long term database growth, and automatic log file management with automatic roll-over and deletion.