Thread: The Standards Telecommunications Management Network

The Telecommunications Management Network (TMN) architecture is defined by ITU-T M.3000 Recommendation Series. The Network Management Forum (NMF), Bellcore, and European Telecommunications Standards Insti¬tute (ETSI) have all embraced these standards as models considered as 'good practices' when designing, selecting, implementing, and selecting an NMS. Models attempt to present a certain beauty with a drawing that portrays clear distinctions between the parts of the whole. One NMS model is presented as a pyramid, each layer dis¬tinct from the lower and the upper.



If you are on one level, you are not in another level. But reading the descriptions betray this idyllic Eden of the model's diagram. (The Nirvana proposed in the model changes appearance upon searching to understand its details). One layer's characteristics may be shared by another level.Clarity leads to fuzziness, blurriness. It becomes a jungle, you are not sure of your location, one area morphs into another area. Then upon reading a marketing department's literature, if it can be called literature, the fuzziness transforms into murkiness. You may wonder whether the product is an NMS as stated or actually an EMS? Our task is not in finding the ephemeral 'truth'. We just want to understand.