1. Lecture notes, slides and links available on the lecture's webpage.

This course covers the architecture of future-oriented network management systems and underlying technologies based on standardised management architectures (OSI-Management, TMF). The concepts of multi-technology and multi-vendor management of resources and services of networked communication systems are presented.
A state-of-the art network management system must not be limited to configuration and fault management of network elements, but has also to provide complete end-to-end network supervision and administration of contracted services and customers. Its flexibility must allow it to adopt to the demands and operational processes of network providers.

Definition network management, ITU-T recommendations, M.3xxx-series
Terminology of access network / transport networks: physical and logical structures
Requirements of a modern network management system: multi-technology, multi-service, multi-vendor
NMS architectures
The TMN Pyramid: element layer, network layer, service layer, Business Layer
The OSI model
The DCN (Data Communication Network)