Tmn Management Of In-based Services

This paper introduces the work being performed in EURESCOM (a research institute jointly owned by the majority of PNOs in Europe) on the management of pan-European IN services using a TMN approach. The focus is on the activities of a research project that is deriving an evolutionary path for the management of IN services in Europe. The evolution approach is based on the definition of a long term scenario and on the development of both medium term and long term solutions for the provision of a set of generic management services and respective information models. Intermediate results accomplished in the first phase of the work related to the definition of a long term scenario for IN management are presented and include: the impact of new customer requirements, the definition of the actors and roles in a long term IN environment, and the development of organisational models suitable for cooperative or joint management arrangements between PNOs in Europe. This work is currently being realised by the EURESCOM Project P226 with the support of the following participating companies: Telecom