12.7. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
Flow-through provisioning enables service provider efficiency, time and cost saving, a foolproof method of provisioning, and increased revenue generation. for the day is not far when service providers mandate flow-through provisioning as the way to do business [1].
Flow-through provisioning is an approach to automate provisioning of new bundled services in a cost-effective manner and with less manual intervention. Flow-through provisioning affords great benefits to the service providers as well as the network operators since it can be implemented over the TMN model of network management. To implement flow-through provisioning, the TMN model can be abstracted into two layers: business and network [1].
Finally, this chapter provides an approach for the implementation of flow-through provisioning in the network layer, specifically with optical network configurations. Different network configurations are considered (such as single optical network domain and multiple optical network domains) in this approach [1].
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