First steps towards the future TMN: dealing with short termarchitectural tradeoffs

摘要

The authors describe some of the technical solutions beinginvestigated by the Italian Telecommunications Operating Company toallow for the smooth evolution toward an overall management architectureembracing both telecommunication and operating services. They focus onthe issues of integration of operations support systems (OSSs) in theItalian Telecommunications Management Network (TMN), depicting astepwise approach to this integration. The issues included are anapproach in terms of a reference architecture; the shortcomings of thecurrent situation of operations and management systems to be tackled atthe start of the integration project; and a transition architecture interms of design changes to existing software as new OSSs that need toaccess existing OSSs in order to share corporate data aredeveloped