<<< Optical Network Management Concepts -1 Optical Network Structure and Terminology An Optical Network (Fig. B) is formed by one or more Subnetworks connected by network Links, providing end-to-end service to one or more Customers. Each subnetwork is administered by an Element Management System (EMS) and the network is administered by a Service provider. A [...]
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<<<Optical Network Management This technical report serves as a short introduction to the terminology and concepts behind practical optical network management. It defines terminology like EMS, ME, PTP, CTP, Subnetwork, Subnetwork connection, Topological Link, PGP, Equipment, Equipment Holder, Route, Cross-Connect etc.. This report is written based on practical experience and various articles/documents available on the [...]
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The Optical Network Management System should provide ‘seamless,end-to-end network management of an entire transport network and should reduce the need for manual intervention in managing global networks. Circuits should be provisioned from a single-seat management location, without complex manual provisioning tasks.’ One of the most important issues involved with the optical network is network management. [...]
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Billing – Retail Billing Systems Billing is the process responsible for the production of timely and accurate bills. But billing systems also process customer payments and collections, handle customer inquiries about bills, resolve billing problems, provide information about billing status, and support pre- and post- Billing – Billing Mediation Systems Billing mediation products assemble information [...]
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NGOSS (New Generation Operations Systems and Software): 1) The NGOSS program has focused on the business and systems aspects of OSS-solution delivery (essentially the problem and solution statement) 2) The NGOSS initiative has delivered business-process and system frameworks, methodologies, UML information models, and resources to help members in the development of NGOSS-compliant components 3) NGOSS [...]
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By Gero Vermaas Source:http://blog.xebia.com/2007/04/19/java-in-telecommunications-–-telemangement-forum-and-ossj/comment-page-1/#comment-8950 As promised in the first post in this series, we’ll now zoom in on the Telemanagement Forum (TMF) and OSS/J. This post will be a bit theoretical, but I promise that the next one will be more practical Telemanagement Forum is an organization that strives to improve the interoperability in the [...]
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By Gero Vermaas Source:http://blog.xebia.com/2007/03/30/java-in-telecommunications-introduction/ Why a blog on Java and telecommunications? There is no other industry for which the Java Community Process hosts so many specifications and I wonder if people are aware of this. Additionally, in May I’ll be doing a session on both JavaOne and Telemanagement World conferences. A nice trigger for a [...]
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Customer – an entity to which the service provider provides network services. EMS (Element Management System) – typically provided by a network element supplier and capable of managing multiple network elements of that supplier. An EMS may communicate with one or more NE(s) on an individual or collective basis (e.g., individually to a switch or [...]
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