As competitive pressures increase for improved, more efficient performance and interoperability among networks, your ability to accurately specify equipment and network applications becomes more critical than ever before. Meet that challenge by better understanding, relating and applying two key model-based methods for specifying transport equipment, interoperability, and management. With this new book, you can combine these two methods for a holistic approach to supporting today's complex networks. This new guide is a major step forward for communication systems engineers and managers integrating multiple technologies and accomodating emergent services, and for vendors and operators needing to ensure compliance with ATM, SDH, and WDM global specifications. The authors provide a disciplined, standards-based tool for engineers and architects of telecommunications systems, hardware, software, and equipment designers, as well as university professors and graduate-level students. This book enables you to: Learn the Functional Modeling approach used for specification of telecommunications networks and equipment and the Open Distributed Processing (ODP) approach for specification of TC network management; Gain an overview of important Unified Modeling Language (UML) contructs used to express ODP-based management specifications; Tackle issues associated with inter-domain management arising from the inherent complexity of management applications and networks, adminstrative drivers, and the advent of new technologies.
Role and Impact of Network Modeling. Unification of Services, Network, and Equipment Requirements. Integration of Transport and Management Requirements. Requirements Capture Drivers and Criteria. Diversity of Customer and Market Needs. Integration of Data Networking and Telecommunications Domains. Advances in Technology. Initial Network Infrastructure and Management Specification Approaches. Network Infrastructure Specification Approach. Traditional Management Specifications. OSI Systems Management. TMN. SNMP - Principles and Specification Techniques. Control Domain. Model-Based Description of Network Infrastructure Functionality and Requirements. Open Distributed Processing Based Architectural Framework. Model-Based Description of Management Functionality Requirements. Unification of Transport and Management Modeling Approaches. Examples of Network Model-Based Specifications. SDH Networking. Optical Networking. Data Networking. Inter-Domain Management. EMergent Management Protocols. Internetworking Between Management Systems Based Upon Different Technologies. Relevant Standards. From Specification to Development. Conclusions. Bibliography. Glossary. Appendices.
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Jean-Michel Cornily
Jean-Michel Cornily is a research engineer with France Telecom/CNET and received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Rennes I. He is a delegate to ITU-T, ETSI, and a member of OMG.
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Dennis K. Doherty
Dennis K. Doherty is a product manager with Lucent Technologies and received his M.S.E. in Computer Science from Princeton University. He is a member of the IEEE.
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George Newsome
George W. Newsome is a distinguished member of the technical staff at Lucent Technologies and received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from University College in London, England. He is a member of IEEE and IEE.
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Christine Pageot-Millet
Christine Pageot-Millet is a research engineer with France Telecom BD/CNET and received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Universite de Rennes I, France. She is a member of ETSI, TMF, and AFNOR.
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Antonio Rodriguez-Moral
Antonio Rodrigues-Moral is a member of the technical staff at Lucent Technologies and received his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Madrid, Spain. He is a member of the IEEE.
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Thierry Stephant
Thierry Stephant is a technical manager with France Telecom and received his engineering degree from the Institut National des Telecommunications. He is a member of both ETSI and ITU-T.
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Eve L. Varma
Eve L. Varma is a technical manager with Lucent Technologies and received an M.A. in Physics from the City University of New York. She is a delegate to both T1X1 and ITU-T.