the tmn and oss programme in eurescom

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Inter-Operator TMN & OSS Workshop

Prague, 23-24 March 1999

The TMN and OSS programme in EURESCOM

Luc Mathan

EURESCOM

[email protected]




Once upon a time ...

• A long time ago, CN and TN decided they must live together• CN assures TN he is moving soon to a posh new address: OSI !• TN diligently starts the long journey to OSI and almost gets there• In reality CN could not afford to live in such an expensive place

and moved to another, cheaper, place: SNMP• TN moves in with CN but dreams of OSI and is fundamentally

unhappy, even after CN’s attempts to renovate SNMP• After some time CN starts thinking about moving again, to a new

promising address: CORBA !• TN diligently starts again the long journey to CORBA • Meanwhile CN makes other plans, because he really wants to live

in a lot of nice places at the same time: JAVA, DCOM, etc...• ...• Not an easy love story, but CN and TN stay together !




Projects from 1991 to 1994 : Shaping TMN

Projects from 1994 to 1998 : Implementing TMN

Projects from 1998 onwards : Building OSS

Programme history




FINAL RESULTS

FIRST RESULTS

Projects from 1991 to 1994 : Shaping TMN

Projects from 1994 to 1998 : Implementing TMN

Projects from 1998 onwards : Building OSS

Prague workshop Objectives




• General assembly agrees on a project focusing on a problem to be solved, with usually a clearly identified customer

• A number of member companies commit manpower to form the project consortium

• Requirements are identified/collected by the project

• Solutions are proposed and sometimes experimented by the project

• Final results are disseminated to all member companies, and in most cases made available outside

The way we work




Aim: Technically support TMN implementations in EUROPE

Using OSI model and TMN concepts already standardised or stabilised

Produced for inter-operator (X) mgnt interfaces :

1) Specifications

2) Prototypes implementations and field trials

3) Methodology and guidelines for spec. and implem.

Projects 94-98




OS

MDOS

NE

WS

NE

F

QQ

Q

XX

“Xcoop”between

two

service providers or networkoperators

“Xuser”between 1) a service provider or anetwork operator

and 2) a customer

TMN

The X interface

G




• X i/f specs: freephone service (P406), billing accounting & charging (P407), SDH-METRAN (P408, P707) , ATM-JAMES (P408, P708), trouble ticketing (P612), TMN security (P710)

• X i/f experiments in PET-Lab: P408, P612, P707, P708

• Support to X i/f exp. (TRS + E-MOL): P414, P609

• Mostly network level mgnt

• Based on GDMO, ASN.1, CMIP

• DCN: X.25, ISDN, then IP

Projects 94-98




Pan-European TMN Laboratory

Platforms in use :

HP OpenView

HP/Vertel

IBM TMN 600

Bull ISM

SNI Protos

Sun Solstice

etc.

Lannion (FT,1,2)

Aveiro (PT,2)

Oulu (TF,1,2)

Madrid (TE,1)Torino (IT,1,3)

Trier (DT,2)

Darmstadt (DT,1)

Martlesham (BT,1,3)

Malmö (ST,2,3)

Brussels (RB,1)

Copenhagen (DK,2)

Berlin (DT,3)

Dublin (TI,3)

(key: 1=ATM 2=SDH 3=Trouble Ticketing)

Athens (OG,1)




GlossaryEnsembles

TRS and E-MOL

MFsMOs Guidelines

http://www.eurescom.de/~public-web-deliverables/p600-series/P609/emolgate.htm

E-MOL

TRS quality procedure: Technical Review Session

publicly accessible web library: EURESCOM Managed Object and Information Library

Information Model produced by an EURESCOM Project is

• reviewed against a list of criteria by TRS experts external to the Project,

• amended by the Project,

• included in E-MOL if endorsed by the TRS experts




bilateral agreements, joint ventures, alliances

METRAN MoU METRAN OA

P408 P707

timefault, config perf, admin, resourcing, etc

(through ETSI)

P107

P710

security

P109

Progress of SDH X interface in Europe

now




Progress of ATM X interface in Europe

NMF

ATM Pilot

JAMES

P408 P708

timeconfig

fault

perf, usage mtr

(through ETSI)

P612

P710

trouble ticketing

security

P105

EASI+P813ETNO WG

P813

now

ITU-T




• Contributed to reorganisations in all Telcos and standards bodies

• Complexity means time and effort on methodology

• TMN boundaries are moving and fuzzy (attempts to include other models than OSI)

• Magnitude of investments means “legacy” still there a long time but moving fast to internet based solutions

• Not just network mgnt, more and more emphasis to service and business mgnt

N&S management today

The development and multiplication of issues involving TMN and non-TMN solutions in last

10 years has had many consequences




Aim: Technically support harmonised deployment of OSS in EUROPE

Taking account of the impact two crucial factors have on N&S management :

1) Deregulation (= more regulations to observe!)

2) Technological progress (= more solutions to offer!)

Projects 98-beyond




Reference framework for OSS interconnection (P811)

• number portability and accounting across telcos

TMN Evolution and SP needs (P812)

• other architectures (OMG, TINA, etc), distributed technologies (DPE, CORBA, Java, etc.), methodology (OMT, UML, IDL, etc.), protocols (IP, IIOP, HTTP, etc.)

Managed ATM service introduction (P813)

• deployment of X i/f, IP-based protocols, total security

OSS Interconnection products evaluation (P908)

• vendors and SPs, number portability, capacity ordering, carrier pre-selection

Projects 98-beyond




Prague workshop

No official panels, but enough time per Project for interactive presentations !

Special session 23 March 14h45 to 16h00 devoted to demonstrations !

We value your opinion on how we run the workshop, fill the blue questionnaire !




Enjoy the Workshop !

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