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TMN:
The Standard, The Practice, The Markets
1998-2003
a market research report
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Insight’s survey of service providers conducted for this study asked for their general opinions on the usage of telecommunications management network (TMN), the standard for network carrier management. The consensus? Among all carriers, big and small, the adoption of TMN in the US and abroad will be steadily increasing over the next five years––nearly 10% annually across all categories, and more than 50% in specific
segments
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In the longer term, however, TMN may become another casualty in the rush to meet competitive demands. In start-up situations, the importance of standards typically gives way to cash flow concerns, and the least costly alternative is deemed “good enough.” Even for established carriers, the TMN standards are often expensive to build to, and the compromise of near-compliance has become the modus operandi.
Despite its inherent complexity, TMN is better than the alternative. The confusing alternative of multiple proprietary solutions is simply unacceptable in a multi-vendor, multi-technology, competitive market environment.
TMN will not, on the other hand, be the all encompassing panacea originally envisioned by its initial definers. Other technologies, such as CORBA, SNMP, DCOM, and Java, will attract adherents as these technologies mature and are championed. TMN will become one of many standards available to the telecommunications industry for the implementation of its operations support sytems
(OSS).
The adoption and deployment of TMN applications will increase over the next five years in all geographic regions and for both wireline and wireless services. Usage will be strongest for element management and network management applications. This report forecasts sales revenue for TMN/OSS from 1998 thru 2003––segmented by region, TMN/OSS type, system component, wireless, wireline, and professional services. Vendor profiles provide details of product portfolios, customers, alliances, and recent developments. This study is the most comprehensive examination of TMN to date available anywhere.
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Report Excerpt
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Overview
The telecommunications management network, or TMN, is a
very detailed series of standards first specified in 1988
to provide a framework for carriers to achieve
inter-connectivity and communications across
heterogeneous networks and systems. And while the
standards documents do indeed, as the industry intended,
“provide an organized architecture to achieve the
interconnection between various Operations Systems and/or
telecommunications equipment for the exchange of
management information,” the question confronting
telecom carriers and their vendors today is--is TMN worth
the hassle?
Insight conducted a primary survey of a wide range of
service providers, asking for their general opinions on
the usage of TMN worldwide and within their companies.
The consensus among all carriers, big and small, is that
the adoption of TMN in the US and worldwide will be
increasing over the next five years. Yet though the
concept of TMN is held in high regard, when they purchase
new network elements, TMN compliance often takes a back
seat to price and corporate strategy considerations.
Though TMN growth will continue over the forecast period,
in the longer term it may become another casualty in the
rush to meet competitive demands. In start-up situations,
the importance of standards typically gives way to cash
flow concerns, and the least costly alternative is deemed
“good enough.” Even for established carriers,
the TMN standards are often expensive to build to, and
the compromise of near-compliance has become the modus
operandi.
Despite its inherent complexity, TMN is better than the
alternative. The confusing alternative of multiple
proprietary solutions is simply unacceptable in a
multi-vendor, multi-technology, competitive market
environment. An acknowledged strength of TMN today is
that it can be used by network equipment vendors to
shield their proprietary interfaces of their Element
Management Systems (EMS) from higher level network
management standards requirements. As a framework, TMN
helps service providers understand how and where a
vendor’s OSSes fit into their telecom management
architecture.
TMN defines standard ways of performing network
management tasks. Inter-connectivity is achieved via the
TMN standard interfaces that view all managed network
resources (switches, transmission systems, etc.) as
objects.
The TMN framework is defined using the following
interdependent components:
- TMN Business Model: this model categorizes management
functionality and tasks related to planning and operating
a telecommunications network as a layered hierarchy. The
business model defines the following four layers:
- Business Management Layer (BML)
- Service Management Layer (SML)
- Network Management Layer (NML)
- Element Management Layer (EML)
- TMN Functional Model: this model describes the six
generic building block components of a TMN network. These
include the:
- Workstation
- Operations Support System
- Data Communications Network
- Mediation Device
- Q-Adapter
- Network Element
- TMN Standard Interfaces: the TMN standard interfaces
formally specify how the six TMN functional building
blocks communicate with one another.
TMN today is a maturing technology. We can see this in
the many way that the TMN model allows equipment vendors
to build standard TMN interfaces. They have the option of
incorporating the interface directly into the network
element (NE), providing a mediation device (MD) to
convert a proprietary interface into a TMN-compliant Q3
interface, or offering an element management system (EMS)
for their products, again shielding the NMS from
proprietary interfaces. TMN has had its greatest impact
on OSS applications resident in the EML and NML. Whether
TMN will be equally successful at the SML and BML remains
to be seen.
TMN greatest success has been in interfacing network
management applications to network elements. This
connection between the NML and NEL relies on the
successful implementation of Q3 and Qx interfaces in the
North-South direction.
Yet the entire nature of telecom operations is being
driven by the customer-centric orientation. If one
examines the telecommunications industry throughout the
world the trends of privatization, deregulation, and free
trade are repeated in market after market. If your end
customer has a choice of service providers, service and
business management drive all network operational
concerns and is forcing the service providers to assume
an East-West orientation. Interconnection between service
providers, retail/wholesale agreements, and customer
service has an East-West orientation, often with
interaction between different applications distributed on
heterogeneous computing platforms.
Both CORBA and DCOM were developed to address the
specific needs of this East-West environment, and are
thus will be playing an increasingly important role in
carrier network management. Insight expects to see CORBA
and DCOM used increasingly at the SML and BML layer. For
example, in early 1999, Allegiance Telecom and Bell
Atlantic announced that they had used DSETís CORBA/TMN
gateway product to provide the first complete
flow-through of service orders between a CLEC and an ILEC. DSET provides the CORBA gateway functionality while
MetaSolv Softwareís Telecom Business Solutions provides
ordering, provisioning, work management, and other OSS
applications required for the complete solution. The
gateway enables the North-South-to-East-West connectivity
required for complete flow-through.
Insight’s analysis suggests that CORBA is being
considered as the platform of choice for implementing
connectivity between service providers or between
customers and service providers. This is an East-West
orientation whereby service requests are processed,
trouble reports are submitted, and bills are presented;
it takes place at the SML of the TMN model.
Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM), which started
life in 1990 as Microsoft’s Dynamic Data Exchange
(DDE), follows a design that mirrors the distributed
computing environment (DCE) architecture established by
the Open Software Foundation (now the Open Group). In
essence, there are many architectural similarities
between CORBA and DCOM, with both providing programming
language independence. However, DCOM is supported only in
a Windows 95/98/NT and is tuned for both development and
operation in that environment.
Nonetheless, Microsoft is endorsing a series of
initiatives to make its DCOM architecture interoperable
with CORBA. To do so, the company must port COM to other
operating systems, in particular the UNIX variants. To
date, COM has been ported by Microsoft to Solaris, and
other vendors such as Hewlett-Packard are looking to port
COM to their environments. Microsoft is also working with
IONA and other CORBA companies to develop software that
maps the different COM functions to CORBA functions and
vice-versa.
Once interoperability is achieved, software vendors,
systems integrators, and service providers will be free
to pursue interoperability in either a UNIX, NT, or mixed
distributed processing environment. The success of ActiveOSS, Microsoftís framework for developing and
deploying OSSes based on DCOM, Microsoft Windows NT
Server and Microsoftís Distributed InterNet Applications
(DNA), will be largely dependent on its ability to work
with CORBA-based systems through its DCOM foundation.
Also, as NT becomes more reliable, scalable, and robust
(key goals of Windows 2000), more service providers are
likely to consider a DCOM DCE solution.
TMN is being widely used for OSS applications resident in
the EML and NML, but its strength in the SML and BML
remains to be seen:
- First, the BML has been particularly resistant to
interfacing with the SML, not only in telecommunications,
but in most industries. The Workflow Management Coalition
has been wrestling with the intersection of business
rules with operations since its founding. This lack of
intersection was one of the primary causes of the failure
of many re-engineering projects in the late 1980s and the
first half of the 1990s.
- Second, at the SML the customer-to-service provider and
service provider-to-service provider relationships are
growing in importance because of resale/wholesale
arrangements and customer network management. These
East-West relationships between independent entities
place added emphasis on interfacing diverse IT
environments. Other standards such as CORBA and DCOM have
been developed to address these complex relationships for
all industry segments. Within telecommunications TINA-C
relies on CORBA to provide the structure and connectivity
for these relationships.
It is Insight’s belief that TMN implementations will
continue to take an increasing portion of the OSS
marketplace. However, this growth will be at the expense
of proprietary solutions and will eventually end up
battling CORBA, DCOM, and SNMP for primacy.
Market Summary
Insight Research analyzes the global TMN application
market by service domain, geography, and TMN logical
layer type. The services are broken into the wireline and
wireless domains. The geographic regions defined are
North America, Europe and the Middle East, Asia Pacific,
and Latin America and the Caribbean. The TMN logical
layer types analyzed include the EML, NML, and SML. (For
all intensive purposes, there are currently no sales at
the BML using TMN technology, and none are forecast.) The
forecast for professional services associated with TMN
applications is also included in the analysis.
The relationship between the TMN management level sales
and traditional OSS categories used by Insight is
complex. In previous OSS reports, Insight defined OSS
functional categories of Customer Care and Billing,
Planning and Engineering, Provisioning and Inventory
Management, Trouble and Repair, Network Management,
Business Management, and Work Force Management. While
these do not align with the levels of management defined
by the TMN model, they do represent the functional
components that comprise OSS solutions offered by OSS
vendors. For example, new entrant service providers are
probably most interested in a start-up solution, i.e.,
customer care and billing plus provisioning and inventory
management (order management), so they can sign up
customers and bill for services. TMN business management,
service management, network management, and element
management layer functionality would all be involve in
implementing this solution.
Insight’s global forecast projections include
expenditures on hardware, operating systems and
middleware, application software, maintenance for
hardware and software, and the revenues for professional
services, e.g., systems integration or process
engineering, associated with TMN applications.
TMN application revenues are growing more than twice as
fast as telecommunications service revenues. This should
not be surprising as service providers are only now
beginning to reap the benefits of the last 5+ years of
TMN research and development. OSSes with functionality in
the NML expect to be shielded from the intricacies of
network equipment by EMSs, MDs and Q-Adapters using a Q3
interface towards the NML. Likewise, network equipment
vendors are also putting Q3 interfaces directly into
network equipment when it is demanded by the marketplace.
The shift to a customer centric focus for OSSes can be
seen in the change of the distribution over time. SML
applications that interface the customer to the service
provider or service provider to service provider are
growing faster than either element or network management
applications. Even at the end of the forecast period,
however, service management provides only 15.1 percent of
the market. Insight predicts that other technologies,
such as CORBA, DCOM, and Java will be better suited for
these applications. Industry standards organization, such
as TeleManagement Forum (previously Network Management
Forum), are already incorporating the shift to these
technologies in their work programs.
Insight also forecasts the market for TMN tools and
platforms. Insight’s definitions for tools and
platforms are:
- TMN tools: TMN tools are used to develop TMN
applications. For example, management and agent tools are
used to build elements that are executed in run-time, but
are not involved in the run-time environment itself.
- TMN platforms: TMN platforms are middleware on which
software developers develop run-time environments for TMN-compliant applications.
To analyze the market further, Insight has also defined
different customer segments for forecasting these tools
and platforms. The segments are based on defining those
customers who would be the primary users of the tools and
platforms, not necessarily the end users. Therefore, this
analysis tracks the initial sale to either systems
integrators (SIs), service providers (SPs), TMN
applications and platform vendors (APVs), or equipment
vendors (EVs).
The Outlook
The adoption and deployment of TMN applications will
steadily increase over the next five years, within all
geographic regions and for both wireline and wireless
services. Service providers will continue to include TMN
compliance on their Request for Proposal check lists,
stimulating the use of TMN by systems integrators,
equipment providers, and application vendors. Usage will
be strongest for element management and network
management applications.
TMN will not, on the other hand, be the all encompassing
panacea originally envisioned by its initial definers.
Other technologies, such as CORBA, SNMP, DCOM, and Java,
will attract adherents as these technologies mature and
are championed. TMN will become one of many standards
available to the telecommunications industry for the
implementation of its OSSes.
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Table of Contents
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Chapter I
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
1.1 TMN Today
1.2 TMN Standards
1.2.1 Other Network Management Standards
1.3 Market Summary
1.3 The Outlook
Chapter II
CURRENT MARKET STATUS
2.1 Market Drivers
2.1.1 New Infrastructure
2.1.1.1 Network Management Vision
2.1.2 Global Competition
2.1.3 Customer-Focused Operations
2.1.4 Legacy System Problems
2.1.5 Greenfield Opportunities
2.1.5.1 Service Providers
2.1.5.2 Vendors
2.1.5.3 Systems Integrators
2.1.6 Integration of Voice, Data, Graphics, and Video
2.2 TMN Products and Services
2.2.1 TMN Platforms and Tools
2.2.2 TMN Applications
2.2.3 Systems Integration and Professional Services
2.2.4 State of TMN Compliance
Chapter III
TELECOM NETWORK MANAGEMENT OVERVIEW
3.1 Historical Perspective
3.1.1 The Problem TMN Solves
3.1.2 Standards Bodies that Contributed to TMN
Development
3.1.2.1 International Standards Bodies
3.1.2.2 Regional Standards Bodies
3.1.2.3 Industry Standards Bodies
3.1.2.4 Technology/Domain Standards Bodies
3.2 TMN Primer
3.2.1 TMN Business Model
3.2.2 TMN Functional Model
3.2.3 TMN Standard Interfaces
3.3 Network Management Functions
3.3.1 Fault Management
3.3.1.1 Network Trouble Tickets
3.3.1.2 Network Testing
3.3.2 Performance Management
3.3.2.1 Traffic Management
3.3.3 Configuration Management
3.3.4 Security Management
3.3.5 Account Management
3.3.6 Work Management
3.3.6.1 Customer Trouble Reporting
3.3.7 Customer Network Management
3.4 Operational Requirements
3.4.1 Integration
3.4.2 Connectivity to Network Elements
3.4.2.1 Existing Protocols and Contact Closures
3.4.2.2 Transmission Systems
3.4.3 Performance
3.4.4 Portability
3.4.5 Distributed Processing
3.4.6 Fault Tolerance/High Availability
3.4.7 Standards Compliance
3.4.8 Graphical User Interface
3.5 Management Trends
3.5.1 Customer-Centric Management
3.5.2 Service Level Management
3.5.3 Proactive Management
Chapter IV
RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER MANAGEMENT STANDARDS
4.1 Standards of Interest
4.2 SNMP
4.2.1 SNMP Architecture
4.2.2 Objects and Commands
4.2.3 Later Versions of SNMP
4.3 Distributed Processing Environments
4.3.1 SNMP Meets TMN
4.4 CORBA
4.4.1 Architecture
4.4.2 Using CORBA
4.5 DCOM
Chapter V
TMN OFFERINGS AND SUPPLIERS
5.1 Introduction
5.1.1 Summary of TMN Vendors
5.2 ADC Metrica
5.2.1 Product Portfolio
5.2.2 Customers
5.2.3 Alliances
5.3 Alcatel
5.3.1 Product Portfolio
5.4 Applied Innovation, Inc.
5.4.1 Product Portfolio
5.4.1.1 Mediator
5.4.1.2 AISwitch
5.4.1.3 AI 4800
5.5 Architel Systems Corporation
5.5.1 Product Portfolio
5.6 Bull HN Information Systems, Inc.
5.6.1 Product Portfolio
5.6.1.1 OpenMaster
5.6.1.2 TMN Master
5.6.1.3 Building Agents
5.6.2 Alliances
5.6.3 Customers
5.7 Clear Communications Corp.
5.7.1 Product Portfolio
5.7.2 Markets and Customers
5.8 Compaq Computer Corp. (Digital Equipment Corp.)
5.8.1 Product Portfolio
5.8.1.1 TeMIP
5.8.2 Alliances and Partners
5.8.3 Customers
5.9 CrossKeys Systems Corporation
5.9.1 Product Portfolio
5.9.1.1 Resolve
5.9.1.2 Altus
5.9.1.3 CrossControl
5.9.2 Alliances
5.10 EHPT AB
5.10.1 Product Portfolio
5.10.2 Customers
5.11 Hekimian Laboratories, Inc.
5.11.1 Product Portfolio
5.12 Hewlett-Packard Company
5.12.1 Product Portfolio
5.12.1.1 Distributed Management TMN
5.12.2 Customers and Markets
5.12.3 Alliances
5.13 IBM Corporation
5.13.1 Product Portfolio
5.13.1.1 IBM TMN Support Facility
5.13.1.2 IBM TMN WorkBench
5.13.2 Alliances and Partners
5.14 ISR Global Telecom
5.14.1 Product Portfolio
5.14.2 Alliances
5.14.3 Customers
5.15 Lucent Technologies, Inc.
5.15.1 Product Portfolio
5.16 Lumos Technologies, Inc.
5.16.1 Product Portfolio
5.16.2 Alliances
5.16.3 Recent Developments
5.17 MetaSolv Software, Inc.
5.17.1 Product Portfolio
5.17.2 Alliances
5.18 Microsoft Corp.
5.18.1 Product Portfolio
5.18.2 Alliances
5.19 NETMANSYS, Inc.
5.19.1 Product Portfolio
5.19.2 Alliances
5.20 Nokia Corp.
5.20.1 Product Profile
5.21 Northern Telecom Ltd.
5.21.1 Product Portfolio
5.21.2 Alliances and Customers
5.22 Objective Systems Integrators, Inc.
5.22.1 Product Portfolio
5.22.2 Markets and Customers Served
5.22.3 Alliances
5.23 ObjectStream, Inc.
5.23.1 Product Portfolio
5.23.2 Customers
5.23.3 Alliances
5.24 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
5.24.1 Product Portfolio
5.24.1.1 Solstice TMN Agent Toolkit
5.24.1.2 Solstice TMN Agent Tester
5.24.1.3 Solstice TMN/SNMP Q-Adapter
5.24.1.4 TMNscript
5.25 TCSI Corporation
5.25.1 Product Portfolio
5.26 Telcordia Technologies, Inc.
5.26.1 Product Portfolio
5.26.1.1 MediaVantage
5.26.1.2 Service Assurance Suite
5.26.1.3 Customer Network Management Suite
5.26.2 Customers
5.27 Vertel Corporation
5.27.1 Product Portfolio
Chapter VI
TMN User Strategies
6.1 Description of Primary Survey
6.2 Interexchange Carriers
6.2.1 AT&T Corporation
6.2.1.1 Network Technologies
6.2.1.2 TMN Projects
6.2.2 MCI WorldCom
6.2.2.1 Network Technologies
6.2.2.2 TMN Projects
6.2.3 Qwest Communications Corporation
6.2.3.1 Network Technologies
6.2.3.2 TMN Projects
6.2.4 Sprint Corporation
6.2.4.1 Network Technologies
6.2.4.2 TMN Projects
6.2.5 Williams Communications Group
6.2.5.1 Network Technologies
6.2.5.2 TMN Projects
6.3 LECs/RBOCs
6.3.1 Ameritech Corporation
6.3.1.1 Network Technologies
6.3.1.2 TMN Projects
6.3.2 Bell Atlantic Corporation
6.3.2.1 Network Technologies/TMN Projects
6.3.3 BellSouth Corp.
6.3.3.1 Network Technologies
6.3.3.2 TMN Projects
6.3.4 Frontier Corporation
6.3.4.1 Network Technologies
6.3.4.2 TMN Projects
6.3.5 SBC Communications, Inc.
6.3.5.1 Network Technologies
6.3.5.2 TMN Projects
6.3.6 US West, Inc.
6.3.6.1 Network Technologies
6.3.6.2 TMN Projects
6.4 CLECs/Other Service Providers
6.4.1 BCT.TELUS Communications, Inc.
6.4.2 GST Telecommunications, Inc.
6.4.3 ICO Global Communications
6.4.3.1 Network Technologies
6.4.3.2 TMN Projects
6.4.4 Intermedia Communications, Inc.
6.4.4.1 TMN Projects
6.4.5 International Digital Communications, Inc.
6.4.6 ITALTEL S.p.A.
6.4.7 Long Distance International, Inc.
6.4.8 Southern California Edison
Chapter VII
MARKET FORECAST
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Methodology of TMN Market Forecasts
7.2.1 Market Analysis Structure
7.2.2 TMN Application Categories
7.2.3 Addressable Market Methodology
7.2.4 Methodology Algorithm
7.3 Worldwide Carrier Revenue Forecasts
7.3.1 Forecast of TMN Applications and Associated
Professional Services for the Global Market
7.4 North American TMN Applications and Associated
Professional Services Forecast
7.4.1 North American Wireline TMN Forecast
7.4.1.1 North American Wireline TMN Market Segment
Forecast
7.4.2 North American Wireless TMN Forecast
7.4.3 North American Professional TMN Services
7.5 International TMN Applications and Associated
Professional Services
7.5.1 International Wireline TMN Forecast
7.5.2 International Wireless TMN Forecast
7.5.3 International Professional TMN Services Forecast
7.5.3.1 International Professional TMN Services Forecast
by Market Segment
7.6 European/Middle Eastern TMN Applications and
Associated Professional Services
7.6.1 European/Middle Eastern Wireline TMN Forecast
7.6.2 European/Middle Eastern Wireless TMN Forecast
7.6.3 European/Middle Eastern Professional TMN Services
Forecast
7.7 Asia/Pacific TMN Applications and Associated
Professional Services Forecast
7.7.1 Asian/Pacific Wireline TMN Forecast
7.7.2 Asian/Pacific Wireless TMN Forecast
7.7.3 Asian/Pacific Professional TMN Services Forecast
7.8 Latin American/Caribbean TMN Applications and
Associated Professional Services
7.8.1 Latin American/Caribbean Wireline TMN Forecast
7.8.2 Latin American/Caribbean Wireless TMN Forecast
7.8.3 Latin American/Caribbean Professional TMN Services
Forecast
7.9 Tools and Platforms and Associated Professional
Services Forecast
7.9.1 Tools and Associated Professional TMN Services
Forecast
7.9.2 Platforms and Associated Professional TMN Services
Forecast
Appendix A
NETWORK MANAGEMENT STANDARDS TUTORIAL
A.1 Introduction
A.2 ITU Management Advantages
A.2.1 Aggregate Cost Savings
A.2.2 Customizable Network Management Operations
A.2.3 Advanced Application Functionality
A.2.4 Support For Management Between Administrative
Domains
A.2.5 Real Time Control of Management
A.2.6 Flexible Distribution of Management Functionality
A.2.7 Real Time Problem Detection
A.2.8 Efficient Search and Selection Capabilities
A.2.9 Highly Reliable Network Management Operations
A.2.10 Reusable and Extensible Network Management
Applications
A.2.11 Alternative Configurations
A.3 Overview of ITU Management Technology
A.3.1 Concepts and Terminology
A.3.2 Object-Oriented Technology Overview
A.3.3 ITU Management Model
A.3.3.2 Profiles and Definitions
A.3.4 Internet Management
A.3.4.1 Historical Perspective
A.3.4.2 Internet Management Specifications
A.3.4.3 Internet Management Model
A.3.4.4 Internet Management Protocol
A.3.4.5 Internet Management Information Model
A.3.4.6 Internet Management Future Developments
A.3.5 ITU Management
A.3.5.1 Historical Perspective
A.3.5.2 ITU Management Specifications
A.3.5.3 ITU Management Model
A.3.5.4 ITU Management Protocol
A.3.5.5 ITU Management Information Model
A.3.5.6 TMN Architecture
A.3.5.7 ITU Management Future Developments
A.3.5.8 ITU Management Summary
A.4 Comparison of Network Management Technologies
A.4.1 Efficiency
A.4.1.1 Polling versus Event-Driven Systems
A.4.1.2 Operations on Multiple Objects
A.4.1.3 Impact of Underlying Protocol Stack
A.4.2 Robustness
A.4.2.1 Reliable Delivery
A.4.2.2 Synchronization and Atomicity
A.4.2.3 Granularity of Functions
A.4.2.4 End-to-End Application Confirmation
A.4.3 Flexibility and Extensibility
A.4.3.1 Information Modeling Aspects
A.4.3.2 Protocol Considerations
A.4.4 Security
A.4.4.1 Management Protocol Security
A.4.4.2 Underlying Security Services
A.4.5 Application Functionality
A.4.5.1 Configuration Management
A.4.5.2 Performance and Accounting Management
A.4.5.3 Problem Management
A.4.5.4 Security Management
A.4.6 Cost Considerations
A.4.6.1 Technology and Application Domains
A.4.7 Comparison Summary
A.5 Coexistence and Interworking Strategies
A.5.1 Coexistence Strategies
A.5.1.1 Mixed Protocol Stacks
A.5.1.2 Common APIs
A.5.1.3 Pass-Through Integration
A.5.2 Interworking
A.5.2.1 Protocol Translation
A.5.2.2 MIB Translation
A.5.2.3 Service Emulation
Appendix B
GLOSSARY
List of Terms
Table of Figures
Chapter I
I-1 North-South Network Management Applications
I-2 Worldwide TMN OSS Sales Revenue Forecast by TMN OSS
Type, 1998-2003 ($Millions)
I-3 TMN Tools and Platforms Product Market, 1998-2003
($Millions)
Chapter II
II-1 Manageable Elements per Thousand Subscriber Lines,
1970-2000
II-2 TMN Logical Layer Architecture
II-3 Decrease in the Average Number of Employees to
Maintain 1,000 Access Lines, 1955-2000
II-4 Spending Shift from Legacy Systems to New NMSes,
1980-2000
II-5 Typical Client/Server Architecture with Distributed
Objects Interacting in a Legacy Environment
II-6 Comparative Worldwide Bandwidth Demands, Voice
versus Internet, 1998-2003 (Gbit/s)
Chapter III
III-1 TMF’s SMART TMN
III-2 Functions Handled by TMN Layers
III-3 Traffic Management Example
III-4 Expert System and Network Management Framework
Relationships
Chapter IV
IV-1 Main SNMP Elements
IV-2 North-South Network Management Applications
IV-3 CORBA Architecture
IV-4 Generic CORBA-Based TMN Gateway
Chapter VII
VII-1 Worldwide TMN Applications Market, 1998-2003
($Millions)
VII-2 Components of 1998 IT Budget
VII-3 Comparison of System Components, 1998 and 2003
VII-4 Wireline Revenue Base and Growth by Region,
1998-2003 ($Millions)
VII-5 Wireless Revenue Base and Growth by Region,
1998-2003 ($Millions)
VII-6 Worldwide TMN Software Expenditures, 1998 and 2003
VII-7 Total Worldwide Carrier Revenues, 1998-2003
($Millions)
VII-8 Worldwide Carrier Revenues by Region, 1998-2003
($Millions)
VII-9 Worldwide Carrier Revenue Distribution by Region,
1998 and 2003
VII-10 Global Carrier Revenues Distribution, Wireline and
Wireless, 1998 and 2003
VII-11 Worldwide TMN Application Forecast 1998-2003
($Millions)
VII-12 Worldwide TMN OSS Sales by Region, 1998-2003
($Millions)
VII-13 Worldwide Distribution of TMN OSS Sales Revenue,
1998 and 2003
VII-14 Worldwide TMN OSS Sales Revenue Forecast, Wireline
and Wireless, 1998 and 2003 ($Millions)
VII-15 Worldwide TMN OSS Sales Revenue Forecast by TMN
OSS Type, 1998-2003 ($Millions)
VII-16 Worldwide TMN OSS Sales Revenue Forecast by TMN
OSS Type, 1998 and 2003
VII-17 Worldwide Professional Service Revenue Forecast by
Region, 1998-2003 ($Millions)
VII-18 Worldwide Professional Service Revenue Forecast by
TMN OSS Type, 1998-2003 ($Millions)
VII-19 North American Total TMN OSS Sales Revenue
Forecast, 1998-2003 ($Millions)
VII-20 North American TMN OSS Sales Revenue Forecast,
Wireline and Wireless, 1998 and 2003 ($Millions)
VII-21 North American Wireline TMN OSS Sales Revenue
Forecast by TMN OSS Type, 1998-2003 ($Millions)
VII-22 North American Wireline TMN OSS Sales
Distribution, 1998 and 2003
VII-23 North American Wireline OSS Sales by Market
Segment, 1998 and 2003
VII-24 North America Wireless TMN OSS Sales Revenue
Forecast by TMN OSS Type, 1998-2003
VII-25 North American Professional Service Revenue
Forecast, Wireline and Wireless, 1998-2003 ($Millions)
VII-26 North American Professional Services Related to
TMN OSS Sales, by TMN OSS Type, 1998-2003 ($Millions)
VII-27 International Total TMN OSS Sales Revenue
Forecast, 1998-2003 ($Millions)
VII-28 Total International Wireline TMN OSS Sales by
Region, 1998 and 2003
VII-29 Total International Wireless TMN OSS Sales by
Region, 1998 and 2003
VII-30 International Professional Service Revenue
Forecast by Region, 1998-2003 ($Millions)
VII-31 International Professional Service Revenue
Forecast, Wireline and Wireless, 1998-2003 ($Millions)
VII-32 International Professional Service Revenue
Forecast, Wireline and Wireless, 1998 and 2003
VII-33 International Professional Services related to TMN
OSS Sales, by TMN OSS Type, 1998-2003 ($Millions)
VII-34 European/Middle Eastern Total TMN OSS Sales
Revenue Forecast, 1998-2003 ($Millions)
VII-35 European/Middle Eastern TMN OSS Sales Revenue
Forecast, Wireline and Wireless, 1998 and 2003
VII-36 European/Middle Eastern Professional Service
Revenue Forecast, 1998-2003 ($Millions)
VII-37 Asian/Pacific Total TMN OSS Sales Revenue
Forecast, 1998-2003 ($Millions)
VII-38 Asian/Pacific TMN OSS Sales Revenue Forecast,
Wireline and Wireless, 1998 and 2003 ($Millions)
VII-39 Asian/Pacific Wireline TMN OSS Sales Distribution,
1998 and 2003
VII-40 Asian/Pacific Wireless Sales Revenue Forecast by
TMN OSS Type, 1998-2003 ($Millions)
VII-41 Asian/Pacific Professional Service Revenue
Forecast, by Wireline and Wireless TMN OSS, 1998-2003
($Millions)
VII-42 Asian/Pacific Professional Services Related to TMN
OSS Sales, by TMN OSS Type, 1998-2003 ($Millions)
VII-43 Latin American/Caribbean Total TMN OSS Sales
Revenue Forecast, 1998-2003 ($Millions)
VII-44 Latin American/Caribbean TMN OSS Sales Revenue
Forecast, Wireline and Wireless, 1998-2003
VIII-45 Latin American/Caribbean Wireline TMN OSS Sales
Revenue Forecast by TMN OSS Type, 1998-2003 ($Millions)
VIII-46 Latin American/Caribbean Wireless TMN OSS Sales
Revenue Forecast by TMN OSS Type, 1998-2003 ($Millions)
VII-47 Latin America/Caribbean Professional Service
Revenue Forecast, Wireline and Wireless, 1998-2003
($Millions)
VII-48 Latin American/Caribbean Professional Services
Related to TMN OSS Sales, by TMN OSS Type, 1998-2003
($Millions)
VII-49 Summary of TMN Tools and Platforms Product Market
Worldwide, 1998-2003 ($Millions)
VII-50 Summary of TMN Tools and Platforms Professional
Services Worldwide, 1998-2003 ($Millions)
VII-51 Market Segment Distribution for TMN Tools
(Products), 1998-2003 ($Millions)
VII-52 Market Segment Distribution for TMN Tools
(Products) by Region, 1998-2003 ($Millions)
VII-53 Market Segment Distribution for TMN Tools
(Professional Services), 1998-2003 ($Millions)
VII-54 Market Segment Distribution for TMN Platforms
(Products), 1998-2003 ($Millions)
VII-55 Market Segment Distribution for TMN Platforms
(Products) by Region, 1998-2003 ($Millions)
VII-56 Market Segment Distribution for TMN Platforms
(Professional Services), 1998-2003 ($Millions)
VII-57 Market Segment Distribution for TMN Platforms
(Professional Services), by Region, 1998-2003 ($Millions)
Appendix
A-1 OSI Systems Management Model
A-2 Management System Model
A-3 Management Information Base Usage
A-4 Internet Management Roles
A-5 ITU Management Roles
A-6 TMN Architecture
Table of
Tables
Chapter II
II-1 Network-Centric Compared with Customer-Centric
Metrics
Chapter III
III-1 Installed Base of Switching Systems by Geographic
Location
Chapter IV
IV-1 Primary SNMPv1 Requests for Comments
Chapter V
V-1 Summary of Offerings by TMN Vendors
Chapter VII
VII-1 Worldwide TMN Applications Market, 1998-2003
($Millions)
VII-2 Components of TMN Applications
VII-3 Market Segments for TMN Applications
VII-4 All Telecom Market Segments: Revenue Base and
Growth, 1998-2003 ($Millions)
VII-5 Worldwide Carrier Revenues by Region, 1998 to 2003
($Millions)
VII-6 Worldwide TMN OSS Sales by Region, 1998-2003
($Millions)
VII-7 Worldwide TMN OSS Sales Revenue Forecast, Wireline
and Wireless, 1998-2003 ($Millions)
VII-8 Worldwide TMN OSS Sales Revenue Forecast by TMN OSS
Type, 1998-2003 ($Millions)
VII-9 Worldwide Professional Service Revenue Forecast by
Region, 1998-2003 ($Millions)
VII-10 Worldwide Professional Service Revenue Forecast by
TMN OSS Type, 1998-2003 ($Millions)
VII-11 North American TMN OSS Sales Revenue Forecast,
Wireline and Wireless, 1998-2003 ($Millions)
VII-12 North American Wireline TMN OSS Sales Revenue
Forecast by TMN OSS Type, 1998-2003 ($Millions)
VII-13 North America Wireless TMN OSS Sales Revenue
Forecast by TMN OSS Type, 1998-2003 ($Millions)
VII-14 North American Professional Service Revenue
Forecast, Wireline and Wireless, 1998-2003 ($Millions)
VII-15 North American Professional Services Related to
TMN OSS Sales, by TMN OSS Type, 1998-2003 ($Millions)
VII-14 International TMN OSS Sales Revenue Forecast,
Wireline and Wireless, 1998-2003 ($Millions)
VII-15 International Professional Service Revenue
Forecast by Region, 1998-2003 ($Millions)
VII-16 International Professional Service Revenue
Forecast, Wireline and Wireless, 1998-2003 ($Millions)
VII-17 International Professional Services Related to TMN
OSS Sales, by TMN OSS Type, 1998-2003 ($Millions)
VII-18 European/Middle Eastern TMN OSS Sales Revenue
Forecast, Wireline and Wireless, 1998-2003 ($Millions)
VII-19 European/Middle Eastern Professional Service
Revenue Forecast, 1998-2003 ($Millions)
VII-20 European/Middle Eastern Professional Services
Related to TMN OSS Sales, by TMN OSS Type, 1998-2003
($Millions)
VII-21 Asian/Pacific TMN OSS Sales Revenue Forecast,
Wireline and Wireless, 1998-2003 ($Millions)
VII-22 Asian/Pacific Professional Service Revenue
Forecast, by Wireline and Wireless TMN OSS, 1998-2003
($Millions)
VII-23 Asian/Pacific Professional Services Related to TMN
OSS Sales, by TMN OSS Type, 1998-2003 ($Millions)
VII-24 Latin American/Caribbean TMN OSS Sales Revenue
Forecast, Wireline and Wireless, 1998-2003
VII-25 Latin America/Caribbean Professional Service
Revenue Forecast, Wireline and Wireless, 1998-2003
($Millions)
VII-26 Latin American/Caribbean Professional Services
Related to TMN OSS Sales, by TMN OSS Type, 1998-2003
($Millions)
VII-27 Summary of TMN Tools and Platforms Product Market
Worldwide, 1998-2003 ($Millions)
VII-28 Summary of TMN Tools and Platforms Professional
Services Worldwide, 1998-2003 ($Millions)
VII-29 Market Segment Distribution for TMN Tools
(Products), 1998-2003 ($Millions)
VII-30 Market Segment Distribution for TMN Tools
(Professional Services), 1998-2003 ($Millions)
VII-31 Market Segment Distribution for TMN Platforms
(Products), 1998-2003 ($Millions)
VII-32 Market Segment Distribution for TMN Platforms
(Professional Services), 1998-2003 ($Millions)
Appendix
A-1 Comparison of ITU and Internet Management Terminology
A-2 ITU Management Specifications
A-3 Comparison of Information Models
A-4 Comparison of Data Type Support
A-5 Existing Model Definitions
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