Management and Control for Giant Gigabit Networks - are we ready for B-ISDN?
L.A. Crutcher, Aurel A. Lazar · 2007
We outline challenges faced in the management and control of broadband networks, describe some typical network management scenarios in this environment, and outline the technical advances required for its realization. We describe the work of the COMET group at Columbia University that deals with these challenges and describe the characteristics of the type of system necessary to enable effective management of these networks. The main feature of the system allows the manager to interact with the network through primitives of a much higher semantic level than those provided by existing management services. 1 Introduction Research, development and implementation of network management systems has progressed to the point where we are now seeing the availability of standards-based management software from commercial vendors, and the deployment of these products in operational networks. Similarly, hardware vendors for network components such as switches, bridges, and routers, are incorporat...