Transport Network Management Platform Technology for Achieving Common Operation among Multiple Network Elements

摘要

Research is underway at NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories on a unified element management system (EMS) platform that will achieve efficient network operation. Many types of network elements (NEs) are deployed on NTT networks. We need to operate various EMSs that are configured for a specific NE in order to manage the different types of NEs. Consequently, the use of multiple EMSs increases the operating cost and the operator workload. We are working to solve this problem by studying a unified EMS, which we call transport network management (TM) platform technology, that can manage various kinds of network technologies. We present the concept and core technologies of TM platform technology in this article.