SNMP agent support for SMDS

A description is given of the model for the switched multimegabit data service (SMDS) simple network management protocol (SNMP) agent to be deployed in the networks of the Bell operating companies, their successors, or regional affiliates to provide customer network management (CNM) services and the CNM information that customers of SMDS may access. Examples of how this information, acquired through the use of SNMP, may be applied by network administrators of large internetworks that employ the SMDS network are given. The examples, which are the results of experiments conducted on laboratory equipment, demonstrate that the SNMP management framework can be applied equally well over wide-area network services and over local area networks. Thus, SNMP in public data network services appears to be a viable and practical near-term solution for CNM.<>