1. ITU-T S4 www.eurescom.de Inter-Operator TMN & OSS Workshop Prague, 23-24 March 1999 The TMN and OSS programme in EURESCOM Luc Mathan EURESCOM mathan@eurescom.de

2. ITU-T S4 www.eurescom.de Inter-Operator TMN & OSS Workshop Prague, 23-24 March 1999 Once upon a time... A long time ago, CN and TN decided they must live together CN assures TN he is moving soon to a posh new address: OSI ! TN diligently starts the long journey to OSI and almost gets there In reality CN could not afford to live in such an expensive place and moved to another, cheaper, place: SNMP TN moves in with CN but dreams of OSI and is fundamentally unhappy, even after CN’s attempts to renovate SNMP After some time CN starts thinking about moving again, to a new promising address: CORBA ! TN diligently starts again the long journey to CORBA Meanwhile CN makes other plans, because he really wants to live in a lot of nice places at the same time: JAVA, DCOM, etc...... Not an easy love story, but CN and TN stay together !

3. ITU-T S4 www.eurescom.de Inter-Operator TMN & OSS Workshop Prague, 23-24 March 1999 Projects from 1991 to 1994 : Shaping TMN Projects from 1994 to 1998 : Implementing TMN Projects from 1998 onwards : Building OSS Programme history

4. ITU-T S4 www.eurescom.de Inter-Operator TMN & OSS Workshop Prague, 23-24 March 1999 FINAL RESULTS FIRST RESULTS Projects from 1991 to 1994 : Shaping TMN Projects from 1994 to 1998 : Implementing TMN Projects from 1998 onwards : Building OSS Prague workshop Objectives

5. ITU-T S4 www.eurescom.de Inter-Operator TMN & OSS Workshop Prague, 23-24 March 1999 General assembly agrees on a project focusing on a problem to be solved, with usually a clearly identified customer A number of member companies commit manpower to form the project consortium Requirements are identified/collected by the project Solutions are proposed and sometimes experimented by the project Final results are disseminated to all member companies, and in most cases made available outside The way we work

6. ITU-T S4 www.eurescom.de Inter-Operator TMN & OSS Workshop Prague, 23-24 March 1999 Aim: Technically support TMN implementations in EUROPE Using OSI model and TMN concepts already standardised or stabilised Produced for inter-operator (X) mgnt interfaces : 1) Specifications 2) Prototypes implementations and field trials 3) Methodology and guidelines for spec. and implem. Projects 94-98

7. ITU-T S4 www.eurescom.de Inter-Operator TMN & OSS Workshop Prague, 23-24 March 1999 OS MDOS NE WS NE F Q Q Q X X “Xcoop” between two service providers or network operators “Xuser” between 1) a service provider or a network operator and 2) a customer TMN The X interface G

8. ITU-T S4 www.eurescom.de Inter-Operator TMN & OSS Workshop Prague, 23-24 March 1999 X i/f specs: freephone service (P406), billing accounting & charging (P407), SDH-METRAN (P408, P707), ATM-JAMES (P408, P708), trouble ticketing (P612), TMN security (P710) X i/f experiments in PET-Lab: P408, P612, P707, P708 Support to X i/f exp. (TRS + E-MOL): P414, P609 Mostly network level mgnt Based on GDMO, ASN.1, CMIP DCN: X.25, ISDN, then IP Projects 94-98

9. ITU-T S4 www.eurescom.de Inter-Operator TMN & OSS Workshop Prague, 23-24 March 1999 Pan-European TMN Laboratory Platforms in use :  HP OpenView  HP/Vertel  IBM TMN 600  Bull ISM  SNI Protos  Sun Solstice  etc. Lannion (FT,1,2) Aveiro (PT,2) Oulu (TF,1,2) Madrid (TE,1) Torino (IT,1,3) Trier (DT,2) Darmstadt (DT,1) Martlesham (BT,1,3) Malmö (ST,2,3) Brussels (RB,1) Copenhagen (DK,2) Berlin (DT,3) Dublin (TI,3) (key:1=ATM2=SDH3=Trouble Ticketing) Athens (OG,1)

10. ITU-T S4 www.eurescom.de Inter-Operator TMN & OSS Workshop Prague, 23-24 March 1999 Glossary Ensembles TRS and E-MOL MFsMOs Guidelines http://www.eurescom.de/~public-web-deliverables/p600-series/P609/emolgate.htm E-MOL TRS quality procedure: Technical Review Session publicly accessible web library: EURESCOM Managed Object and Information Library Information Model produced by an EURESCOM Project is reviewed against a list of criteria by TRS experts external to the Project, amended by the Project, included in E-MOL if endorsed by the TRS experts

11. ITU-T S4 www.eurescom.de Inter-Operator TMN & OSS Workshop Prague, 23-24 March 1999 bilateral agreements, joint ventures, alliances METRAN MoUMETRAN OA P408P707 time fault, configperf, admin, resourcing, etc (through ETSI) P107 P710 security P109 Progress of SDH X interface in Europe now

12. ITU-T S4 www.eurescom.de Inter-Operator TMN & OSS Workshop Prague, 23-24 March 1999 Progress of ATM X interface in Europe NMF ATM Pilot JAMES P408P708 time config fault perf, usage mtr (through ETSI) P612 P710 trouble ticketing security P105 EASI+P813 ETNO WG P813 now ITU-T

13. ITU-T S4 www.eurescom.de Inter-Operator TMN & OSS Workshop Prague, 23-24 March 1999 Contributed to reorganisations in all Telcos and standards bodies Complexity means time and effort on methodology TMN boundaries are moving and fuzzy (attempts to include other models than OSI) Magnitude of investments means “legacy” still there a long time but moving fast to internet based solutions Not just network mgnt, more and more emphasis to service and business mgnt N&S management today The development and multiplication of issues involving TMN and non-TMN solutions in last 10 years has had many consequences

14. ITU-T S4 www.eurescom.de Inter-Operator TMN & OSS Workshop Prague, 23-24 March 1999 Aim: Technically support harmonised deployment of OSS in EUROPE Taking account of the impact two crucial factors have on N&S management : 1) Deregulation (= more regulations to observe!) 2) Technological progress (= more solutions to offer!) Projects 98-beyond

15. ITU-T S4 www.eurescom.de Inter-Operator TMN & OSS Workshop Prague, 23-24 March 1999 Reference framework for OSS interconnection (P811) number portability and accounting across telcos TMN Evolution and SP needs (P812) other architectures (OMG, TINA, etc), distributed technologies (DPE, CORBA, Java, etc.), methodology (OMT, UML, IDL, etc.), protocols (IP, IIOP, HTTP, etc.) Managed ATM service introduction (P813) deployment of X i/f, IP-based protocols, total security OSS Interconnection products evaluation (P908) vendors and SPs, number portability, capacity ordering, carrier pre-selection Projects 98-beyond

16. ITU-T S4 www.eurescom.de Inter-Operator TMN & OSS Workshop Prague, 23-24 March 1999 Prague workshop No official panels, but enough time per Project for interactive presentations ! Special session 23 March 14h45 to 16h00 devoted to demonstrations ! We value your opinion on how we run the workshop, fill the blue questionnaire !

17. ITU-T S4 www.eurescom.de Inter-Operator TMN & OSS Workshop Prague, 23-24 March 1999 Enjoy the Workshop ! Remember our web site for Deliverables and information on Projects - www.eurescom.de