Standard networks for telecommunications management

Summary form only given. The emerging ISO network management standards support a very general, elegant network management architecture that is easily adapted to the specifics of a particular distributed system, e.g. a network. Because this approach to network management is broadly applicable and will be supported by equipment and software systems available from a number of vendors, it seems likely that the telecommunications industry will simply adopt ISO standards where possible. A telecommunication management network based on ISO standards could soon be procured 'off the shelf' except for two components. One of these would be a system in the local area of the network element which translates (mediates) between the system-specific functions and data structures of a particular vendor and presents to the network and to the operations systems a general, ISO/OSI compliant, interface. The other would be set of applications in the operations systems and workstations that present an operator interface which is as uniform as is possible in a multivendor system.<>