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EURESCOM Project P708 TMN X-Interface Studies and Experiments for ATM Colin Smith (BT) Donald Ranasinghe (BT) Marina Geymonat (CSELT) Project Participants: Belgacom, BT, CSELT, Deutsche Telekom, Finnet Group, France Telecom, OTE, Sonera, SwissCom, Telefonica I+D TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 Rationale Need for a global ATM VP service both in Europe and World-wide TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 Inter-Domain Connections PNO D PNO A MANAGEMENT NETWORK PNO C MANAGEMENT LAYER PNO B ATM Network ATM Network ATM Network ATM Network TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 NETWORK LAYER (ATM) Issues at the Management Layer PNO D PNO A MANAGEMENT NETWORK Need For • Co-operative PNO C PNO B Management of Interdomain Connections • Communications between Management Systems A Common Protocol A Standardised Interface TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 TMN X-Interfaces: Xcoop, Xuser M3 Customer Management System Xuser Management System (Network Level) Q3 nw Xcoop/M5 Management System (Network Level) Q3 nw Management System (NE) Q3 el Q3 el PRIVATE TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 Management System (NE) PNO A PNO B Xcoop Functional Areas FAULT (ETSI-300 820.2) CONFIGURATION (ETSI-300 820.1) Specified in GDMO language Implemented with CMIP protocol TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 Objectives of P708 Xcoop validated specification for: • Performance Management • Accounting Management Europe-wide infrastructure PET-Lab to test TMN X-Interface specifications (any technology) Implement and Test (EURESCOM P710) Security Solutions for the X-Interface TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 X.25 Performance Management Monitoring of ATM VPs (including parts over Inter- PNO Links) Real-time monitoring of performance parameters & inspection of History Logs Setting of thresholds & alarm reporting to Initiating PNO when exceeded PNOs are not comfortable with other PNOs reading their performance data Standards at the Network Level for ATM are still immature TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 Accounting Management • No billing or charging scheme is to be produced • Provide the PNOs with the necessary information to be able to account for the resources actually used by the customer • Need to identify parameters to quantify the actual use of resources involved in an international VP service • Real-time charging to customer TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 Validation Methodology 1 Specification phase 2 Separate implementation Xcoop Specification 3 Test Specification 4 Test Execution over the PET-Lab implementation updating Test Execution Passed? YES TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 revision of specificatio n NO Validated X-Interface Specification Pan-European TMN Laboratory Interconnection of 6 Labs with multi-vendor Management Platforms Interoperating Each lab has an OSI stack Platform & Toolkit Management Platform X.25 OSI stack Testing of other networks TCP/IP (RFC 1006) ISDN TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 X - Interface Security • Key feature for a trustworthy Inter- domain management • Co-operation with EURESCOM project P710 to test the security solutions they propose • A security reference architecture will be defined allowing the integration of standard APIs (GSS) with off-the-shelf components and existing management applications • Liaison with platform vendors to get security features into commercial TMN platforms TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 Conclusions • X-interfaces are necessary for a global services • Only Validated Specifications should be issued • The Pan-European TMN Lab is used for XInterface specification validation • Performance and Accounting are still very immature, but clear requirements for the X-Interface have been identified • Security needed for commercial services TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 THE END THANK YOU CONTACT INFORMATION Colin C Smith BT Laboratories (B54/134) Martlesham Heath Ipswich. IP5 3RE, UK TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 E-Mail: [email protected] Phone: +44 1473 648123 Fax: +44 1473 643545