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Achieving global information networking / Eve L. Varma ... [others]. - xviii, 353 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm - Artech House telecommunications library .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Role and Impact of Network Modeling --
Telecommunications Network Vision --
Linkages Between Transport Services, Networks, and Equipment --
Linkages Between Transport and Management --
Unification of Transport and Management Modeling Approaches --
High-Level Description and General Principles --
Applicability to Various Transport Technologies --
Transport Network Infrastructure and Management--Specification Approaches --
Requirements Capture Drivers and Criteria --
Customer/Market Drivers and Implications --
Technology Enablers --
Requirements Criteria --
Conventional Transport Specification Approaches --
Conventional Management Specification Approaches --
TMN/OSI Approach --
SNMP--Principles and Specification Techniques --
Example: GDMO Definition of Managed Objects --
Example: SNMP Definition of Managed Objects --
Model-Based Description of Transport Network Functionality --
High-Level Description and General Principles --
Connection-Related Dimension --
Basic Concepts --
Functionality --
Connections and Points --
Connection Domain Model --
Sublayers and Function Decomposition --
Equipment Packaging --
Application Example --
Application to Packet-Switched Networks --
Control and Management Dimension --
Equipment Supervisory Process --
Transport Entities Considered as Management Resources --
Relationship to TMN Equipment Information Models --
Inventory-Related Dimension --
ODP Architectural Framework Applied to Telecommunications Systems Design --
Selection Rationale --
Specification Framework, Architecture, and Modeling Constructs.

ISBN: 0890069999 (alk. paper)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Telecommunication systems--Specifications--Standards.
Telecommunication systems--Models.

Dewey Class. No.: 621.382 / A