Integrated Customer-Focused Network Management: Architectural Perspectives
L. Feldkhun, Michele Marini, Sandro Borioni · 1997
The industry-wide trend to decouple telecommunications services from the underlying network technology, together with increasing complexity of high-speed hybrid customer networks, has created the need for a new generation of integrated network management systems, dedicated to managing advanced heterogeneous customer networks as a service. This paper presents business drivers for Integrated Customer-Focused Network Management (ICFNM) systems and introduces a number of key architectural perspectives for ICFNM implementation including: i) the position of ICFNM systems in the overall network management context, ii) the functional scope, and iii) the practical experience gained in designing and developing ICFNM using Object Oriented methodology and advanced commercial technologies (i.e., CORBA).