Chapter 6. Network Management and Service Provisioning

This chapter covers the following key topics:

  • Service Provisioning — The service-provisioning model today is manual and requires a lot of truck rolls to provision a DSL circuit. It takes a service technician approximately more than an hour to provision a DSL circuit, therefore slowing down the DSL deployment rate.

  • Flow-Through Service Provisioning — With the right interface to the existing service provisioning systems, Cisco Element Managers can interface with the DSL elements and configure them with just a few mouse clicks.

  • Accounting and Billing — Even though most DSL service offering are based on flat rate billing as the ISP starts providing multiple services, they might need to start billing ...

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