Telecommunications Ntwrk Mngmn

A leading-edge reference, this collection of original chapters from prominent experts in the field brings you a superb presentation of the latest in telecommunications network management. Thorough and up-to date, Telecommunications Network Management into the 21st Century covers the timely application of forward-looking network management techniques, which is the key to fully realizing future industry capabilities. Topics covered include principles of network management, network management protocol standards, domestic and international OSI management standards, and more!

Featuring original chapters from prominent experts in the field, this important book covers key topics including principles of network management, network management protocol standards, telecommunications management network, domestic and international OSI management standards, plus much more.

Electrical Engineering

Telecommunications Network Management: Technologies and Implementations

A follow-up to Telecommunications Network Management into the 21st Century: Techniques, Standards, Technologies, and Applications (IEEE Press 1994), this collection of original chapters written by leading experts in the field brings together a full range of applications topics in telecommunications network management. Telecommunications Network Management illustrates how related technology advancements in the telecommunications and computing industries can help engineers achieve cost-effective, end-to-end management of networks. The reader will understand how information modeling and distributed management help to simplify network representation, introduce computing platforms, and reduce operations costs. This book will help engineers and technical managers who face the challenge of integrating multiple technologies, working with multiple vendors, and identifying different management requirements. Topics covered include:

• Information modeling
• New software paradigms
• Distributed management
• Management of CATV and wireless networks
• Software applications lifecycle
  
  

Salah Aidarous is the Director of Product Planning at the Network Management Division of NEC America, working on the planning and development of integrated network management systems. Prior to NEC, he was with Nortel Technology (formerly BNR) working on a broad range of assignments in telecommunications networks and services planning and development. Dr. Aidarous is a senior editor of IEEE Network magazine, senior editor of the Journal on Network and Systems Management, chairman of the Technical Committee on Information Infrastructure (TCII), and coeditor and an author of Telecommunications Network Management into the 21st Century: Techniques, Standards, Technologies, and Applications.

Thomas Plevyak is the president of the IEEE Communications Society. His two-year term of office began 1 January 1998. Mr. Plevyak is an IEEE Fellow, the past director of Publications of the IEEE Communications Society, and a former editor-in-chief of IEEE Communications magazine. He retired after 28 years with Bell Laboratories and AT&T Network Systems (now Lucent Technologies), and is now responsible for operations and network management standards for Bell Atlantic in Arlington, Virginia. Mr. Plevyak is former vice-chairman of the Inter-American Telecommunications Commission (CITEL), Permanent Consultative Committee 1 (PCC.1), a unit of the Organization of American States. He is coeditor and an author of Telecommunications Network Management into the 21st Century: Techniques, Standards, Technologies, and Applications.