Achieving global information networking [electronic resource] / Eve L. Varma ... [et al.].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Available through the EBSCO e-book Collection, which can be found on the Davenport University Library database page.

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.

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