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Service Centric Management (SCM)
draft-barkai-scmp-00

Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (individual)
Expired & archived
Author Sharon Barkai
Last updated 2003-01-07
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Abstract

With the proliferation of IP based internetworking services to mass business and consumer markets carriers are faced with operational challenges in an extent never before experienced in previous LAN MAN or WAN environments. To accommodate these new internetworking envi- ronments, carrier workflow management applications for service Ful- fillment, Assurance, and Billing (FAB) need to undergo major a tran- sition. In essence applications need to transition from being per technology centric to being service centric, as historic correspon- dence between technology and service is no longer true. Applications do not need to change in nature, since they still need to support inventory, CRM, order and other workflows. However, applications need to include a service centric aspect as basis for these work- flows. Service Centric solutions can be shared by a wide range of management and workflow applications, rather than be re-invented by each one. Service Centric Management solutions must be distributed in order to cope with the massive scale and complexity challenges of the underly- ing networks. Service Centric Management Protocol (SCMP) and distri- bution should be standardized to facilitate multi-vendor interoper- ability in this emerging space, allow for potential future embedding within NE, and to allow for Service Centric Management primitives to extend across Inter Carrier Interfaces (ICI) and inner carrier regu- latory bounds.

Authors

Sharon Barkai

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