(Operations Administration Maintenance) Refers to managing and maintaining a network or network device. The P in "OAM&P" adds "provisioning" to the list, which is a telephone company term for setting up a service.
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- Network Management Map (zip)
- A comprehensive network management guide and reference for Telecom, IT and networking professionals. An easy to use training tool for IT students to get an overall picture of network management architecture, frameworks, models, protocols and technologies. All in one chart displays the network management technologies for data networking and...
- Software downloads 2007-07-24
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- Thanks to the recent standardisation of long-range, high-bandwidth Ethernet interfaces, Ethernet can now be used in metropolitan networks. It can be said that Ethernet now offers the same bandwidth and range as traditional WAN technologies. However, adapted interfaces alone do not turn Ethernet into a WAN technology. A carrier-class network...
- White papers 2007-05-03
- Nortel Network Case Study: TeleCable
- TeleCable wanted to empower a leading regional service provider to deliver flexible, resilient, high-bandwidth connectivity to an important regional savings bank. Nortel's Metro Ethernet Networking portfolio, comprising the Metro Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 and the Metro Ethernet Services Units 1800 and 1850. Provider Backbone Bridges (IEEE 802.1ah) deliver massive scalability,...
- Case studies 2007-03-07
- Oracle Access Manager Performance Benchmark
- Oracle Access Manager, formerly known as Oracle COREid Access and Identity, provides identity administration and access control to web applications and other resources. A key component of the Oracle Identity Management Suite, Oracle Access Manager provides security for heterogeneous application environments. Like any application deployed in demanding, real-time environments, proper...
- White papers 2006-12-01
- Ethernet Now Offers the Most Comprehensive OAM for Packet-Based Solutions
- OAM (Operations, Administration and Maintenance) describes the instrumentation of telecommunications networks that provide operators with the tools to remotely manage their network infrastructure. At the device level, OAM protocols generate messages that are used by operations staff to help identify problems in the network. For example, OAM allows automatic network...
- White papers 2006-11-27
- Ethernet Operations, Administration, and Maintenance
- As intense competition continues to erode their profitability and demand for new services increases, service providers are accelerating their transition to an IP-based NGN. Service providers require innovative, converged infrastructures to improve delivery of current services and provide a scalable framework for tomorrow's new, bandwidth-intensive services such as IPTV, Video...
- White papers 2006-09-01
- Synchronous Ethernet - A RAD White Paper
- As more and more traffic is being delivered in Ethernet format, carriers are realizing the advantages to converging on a pure Ethernet infrastructure, but are not able to do so with Ethernet as presently defined. New ITU-T Recommendations, such as Y.1731 for Ethernet OAM and G.8031 for Ethernet protection switching,...
- White papers 2006-08-22
- Ethernet Service OAM: Overview, Applications, Deployment, and Issues
- As the number of Ethernet service instances grows, service providers will require a robust set of management tools to maintain Ethernet service networks. The positive news is that IEEE 802.1, ITU SG 13, and the MEF have been working in close cooperation to develop complimentary standards for multi-domain Ethernet Service...
- White papers 2006-03-02
- Virtual autopsies
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- Blog posts 2005-12-23
- A Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Analysis and Comparison of Edge Aggregation Network Architectures
- MSER vendors will exert considerable influence over the process of selecting the best approach for Layer 2 migration, given their incumbency within the core IP/MPLS network. However, NSP believes that service provider network planners will execute their initial deployment assessments based on mitigating the risk of impacting customer SLAs, preserving...
- White papers 2005-11-17
- Evolution of Ethernet for Data Transport Networks
- The Recent introduction of new revenue-generating services based on Ethernet has made more acute the need to improve Ethernet by adding features essential for efficient data transport. Various enhancements to the bridged Ethernet protocols in terms of scalability, OAM, restoration, QoS, and synchronization are being standardized that are making the...
- White papers 2005-09-01
- Load Balancing in MLPS VPN Environments
- This paper contains a detailed description of how Border Gateway Protocol BGP load balancing is used in MultiProtocol Label Switching MPLS Virtual Private Network VPN scenarios, some of the advantages and disadvantages of its use, and how to monitor and debug load balancing. This paper also briefly discusses how Cisco...
- White papers 2005-07-05
- End-to-End Ethernet Connectivity Fault Management in Metro and Access Networks
- OAM Operations Administration and Management refers to the tools to monitor and troubleshoot a network. Ethernet OAM is seen as a pre-condition for efficient rollout of Ethernet services. Alcatel has recognized the lack of OAM functionality today in the original native Ethernet and has proposed VPLS OAM for MPLS encapsulation...
- White papers 2005-06-01
- MPLS OAM Tools for Troubleshooting MPLS Networks
- Increasing number of networks is migrating to MultiProtocol Label Switching MPLS because of the tremendous benefits it offers. At the same time, the separation of data and the control plane in MPLS introduces additional complexity in troubleshooting MPLS networks. This paper includes the following topics; Operation of the traditional ping...
- White papers 2005-04-06
- Cisco IP/MPLS Interprovider Solution
- This white paper highlights new Cisco IP/MultiProtocol Label Switching MPLS capabilities that help service providers peer with each other to expand service areas; increase revenue and reduce costs using IP/MPLS-based VPNS (per RFC 2547bis); improve end-to-end Service-Level Agreement SLA offerings to enhance Quality of Service QoS and traffic engineering; offer...
- White papers 2005-02-10
- Cisco IOS MPLS Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS)
- This white paper explains the format for point-to-point L2 VPN services using Ethernet frames transported over an MPLS pseudowire, with LDP specified as the signaling and OAM mechanism for this point-to-point service. The performance of peer-to-peer applications benefits from being implemented over service provider networks that support multipoint network services.
- White papers 2003-12-01
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