TINA-TMN Interworking: Case Study of an Integration between the VITAL TINA Platform and an Existign TMN Platform

摘要

For the management of pubic telecommunication networks TMN (Telecommunications Management Network) receives a wide acceptance from network opertors and suppliers. Although TMN defines different layers going from the service oriented Business layer towards the Element layer, it is currently very much focused on network and element management. On the other hand TINA (Telecommunications Information Networking Architecture) integrates the service managemnt layers with the network management layers in a coherent way relying on a distributed software execution platform (DPE). This paper focuses on possible interworking schemes between both archtiectures where hte strong elements of each are combined: TINA for the service management and TMN for the network management. Several candidate interworking/ migration schemes between CORBA/IDL and CMISE/GDMO are investigated i nthe context of a concrete implementation, namely the interworking between a TMN platform based on HP Open View and the TINA compliant platform developed in the context of the ACTS VITAL project.