Chapter 12. Optical Network Configurations

In the competitive world of telecom service business, the demand for new services is increasing exponentially. This leads to service providers expanding their equipment bases to handle the increased inflow of customers. Now service providers have to manage with a large equipment base, large volume of existing customers, and large volume of new customer requests [1].

The service providers use optical network configurations and element management systems (EMSs) to manage their equipment base and service and business management systems to manage customer base. Although these configuration management systems help service providers, they cannot give full benefit if they do not talk freely with each other. Therefore Telecommunication Management Networks (TMN) defined a standard to provide a solution to this problem [1].