Network management-recent advances and future trends

The author provides an introduction to and an overview of network management (NM). He traces some of its history, discusses some of its recent advances, and projects some future trends. He describes many of the NM advances in the 1970s and 1980s that were made possible by stored-program control and operations systems. He examines the evolution to integrated services digital networks (ISDNs) and intelligent networks using common-channel signaling as their backbone