Optical Network Design and Implementation

SONET Network Management

SONET NEs need OAM&P support to be managed by carriers and service providers. The OAM&P of an NE is the task of its EM. EMs are device-specific and vary by vendor. In a typical service provider environment, there could be multiple EMs. The integration of the various EMs (along with fault management (FM), performance management (PM), accounting management (AM), security management (SM), configuration management (CM), trouble ticketing, and billing applications) is the function of the operations support system (OSS). Multiple OSS systems that manage the data communications network (DCN) constitute the Telecommunication Management Network (TMN). The TMN has been standardized by the ITU-T under Recommendation M.3010. Telcordia ...