Title :
Evolution of operation support systems in public data networks
Author :
Sherif, M.H. ; Ho, S.
Author_Institution :
AT&T, Middletown, NJ, USA
Abstract :
Operation support systems (OSS) facilitate the development, deployment and maintenance or high-quality network-based services at a reasonable cost. This paper reviews the trends, particularly the customers´ needs to manage their own data networks, and their effects on the architecture of OSS of public data networks
Keywords :
maintenance engineering; network operating systems; telecommunication network management; telecommunication services; OSS; data network management; high-quality network-based services; network architecture; operation support systems; public data networks; service deployment; service development; service maintenance; telecommunications management network; Access protocols; Availability; Bandwidth; Circuit faults; Costs; Coupling circuits; Intelligent networks; Marketing and sales; Monitoring; Telephony;
Conference_Titel :
Computers and Communications, 2000. Proceedings. ISCC 2000. Fifth IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Antibes-Juan les Pins
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0722-0
DOI :
10.1109/ISCC.2000.860601
