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Data and telecommunications communities have been witnessing two new developments in recent years: emerging active networking concepts and the revision of TMN. In the light of these developments, this paper investigates the extent to which TMN is suitable for managing future networking technologies and includes recommendations about where the TMN standards could be evolved to better accommodate active networking technologies. This paper is rightly timed because public telecommunications operators want to learn more about the usefulness of active networks but are sceptical about what they offer. Solutions to the challenges made by active networks will shape the course that active networks take, and management of active networks is one of the most difficult challenges. TMN wields authority in the field of telecommunications management and can be a key instrument for the management of active networks.
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Bhushan, B., Hall, J. (1999). Active Network Challenges to TMN. In: Covaci, S. (eds) Active Networks. IWAN 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1653. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-48507-0_26
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