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Thanks! What are the capabilities that are looked for, in a NMS for Internet?? --- Sean Donelan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, [iso-8859-1] Savitha Kumar > wrote: > > them, accounting management which is one of the > FCAPS > > functionality is not supported on any of the > NMS's. > > I think you have your networking models confused. > > FCAPS is part of the ITU model for TMN-layers. You > need to look at ITU networks, such as the telephone > network, which extensively collects accounting data. > > Trying to apply ITU network models to the Internet > will just make your head hurt. > > > > So I thought it would make sense if I contact a > > network operations group regarding this. Can you > > please throw some light on the following - > > 1. Why is "accounting" not part of most of the > NMS's? > > 2. What do service providers use for billing > their > > customers? > > Because most Internet providers have a different > billing > model. In the Internet, accounting is usually part > of AAA systems not NMS systems. > > Of course, on the Internet NMS systems are not the > same > thing as NMS in the ITU model either. I'm not > arguing one > model is better than the other, but its a bad idea > to > try to apply the wrong model to the wrong network. > > ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Education Special: Study in the UK now. Go to http://in.specials.yahoo.com/index1.html
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