Index

-A-
AAL 45-46, 47
        protocols 48
Activation/Deactivation OAM Cells 97
Administration Management 78
Analog 21
ATM 4
adaptation layers 25, 44
adapters 59
adoption 9
applications 9-10
architecture 22
        as an evolutionary technology 18
        capabilites 4
        cards, cost of 23
        cell level CNM information 113
        cell size 30
        challenges facing 32-35
        classes of service 47
        concepts 30
        definition of 39
        features 28
        forum 31
                agenda 59
                layer 43
                management 86, 86-88
        longevity 11
        network management functions 69
                summary of 79
        peer-to-peer connection 89
        physical layers 42
        pilot, planning 252
        standards 29, 38-39
        switch
                backplane-based systems 57
                matrix switches 57
                to the desktop 59
        topologies of 14
        versatility of 12
ATMM-entity 88
Available bit-rate service 296

-B-
B-ISDN 30, 71, 110
B-LMI 130
B-LMI Management Information Base (MIB) 72, 99
Bandwidth 10, 23
        allocation 23
        levels 12
        on demand 24
        scalability 22
Batcher-Banyan network 58
Benchmarking 239
Bianchina network 58
Billing 265-268
Broadband ISDN (B-ISDN) 18, 30
Broadcast and Unknown Server (BUS) 52
Broadcasts 278-279
Buffered Benes network 58

-C-
Capacity planning 78
Cell Loss Priority (CLP) 40
Chargeback procedures 15
Classes of service 32
Client 14
Client-server 224
Clustering 224, 251
CNM agent 113
CNM service
        accessing 114
coaxial cable 113
Common Management Information Protocol (CMIP) 68
Complexity factors 292
Computers 19
        and networks 8
Configuration Management
        description of 76-77
Congestion control 32, 60
Constant bit rate 235
Copper-wire technologies 20
Corporate networks
capabilities needed 68
Crossbar network 58
CRS CNM Agent 128

-D-
Data Circuit-Terminating Equipment (DTE) 26
Data Terminal Equipment (DTE) 26
DCE 275
Diagnostic equipment
        ATM-based 14
Digital 21
Digitalization (of networks) 21
DXI/UNI 55

-E-
Enduser Networking Roundtable (ENR) 253
Error checking 32
Ethernet 18, 22, 24, 26, 51
Event 245
Event Correlation 245
Extended Superframe Format (ESF) 90

-F-
Fast Ethernet 22, 27
Fastpacket data services 69
Fault Management OAM Cells 97
FDDI 18, 22, 26, 31, 51
Fiber 20, 59
        channel 27
        media 32
        optic 113
        optic circuits 18
        optic media 26
        wiring 21
Fields
        UNI cell 40
Financial services 219
Fixed-length packet 30
Frame Relay 18, 24, 27, 33, 55
Frame Relay Service 113
Frame UNI (FUNI) 55
Functions
        operations/program management 13
        planning 13

-G-
Generic SNMP Manager 120
Gigabit network 31

-H-
Header Error Control (HEC) 41
High Performance Parallel Interface (HPPI) 27
High-speed switching 12

-I-
IEE 134
IEEE 802 275
ILMI 130
Information highway 25
Insourcing 297-299
Integrated network management 81
Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS) 259
International Telecommunication Union Tellecomunication 38
Internet 8, 25, 27
Internet Activities Board 118
Internet Protocol (IP) 27
IP 118, 275
ISDN 29
ISO CMIP (Common Management Information Protocol) 124

-J-
Joint Photographic Expert Group (JPEG) 222
JPEG 227

-K-
Kerberos 275

-L-
LAN Emulation (LANE) 32, 49, 51
        Client (LEC) 51
        Server (LES) 52
        User-Network Interface (LUNI) 52, 53-54
LAN technologies 22
LAN-to-ATM interworking (LANE) 47
Layer Management 72
Layer Management Protocols 107
Logical topologies of ATM 14
Low-speed ATM 60

-M-
MAC 275
Management Application Protocols 107
Management network issues
        Chargeback procedures 15
ManagerAgent model 106
Metasignaling 87
MIB 120
Modeling 246, 275
Moore's Law 18, 23, 29
MPEG 227
Multicasts 278-279
Multimedia 227-229
Multiplexing 39
Multiprotocol networks 66

-N-
Netware 220
Network capacity
        demand for 23
Network documentation 295
Network File System (NFS) 220
Network management 13
        issues 14
        scope of 6
Network management agent 107
Network management issues
        Fault detection 15
        Help-desk functions 15
Network Management System 107
Network management terminology 71
Network Model 291
Network Operation Center (NOC) 267-268
Network planning 290
Network policies 290
Network-to-Network Interface (NNI) 40, 41
Networking technology 19
Networks
        ATM-based 67
        private 18
        virtual 11
1990s 9
NMS/CNMA 107
Nonblocking operation 58
Novell IPX 275
Novell's Link State Protocol (NLSP) 259

-O-
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) 259
Open Software Foundation 134
Open Systems Interconnection Network Management (OSINM) 73
Operations and Maintenance (OAM) cells 96
Operations/program management functions 13
Optical fiber
        potential capacity 21
OSI 28
        family 133
        Seven Layer Model 15, 15-16
Outsourcing 243, 269, 297-299

-P-
Packetized Automatic Routing Integrated System (PARIS) 30
Packets 26
Payload Type Identifier (PTI) 40, 44
PBX systems 57
Performance management
        description of 77
Performance Management OAM Cells 98
Permanent Virtual Channels (PVSs) 39
Physical level CNM information 113
Physical topologies of ATM 14
Planning functions 13
Prioritization features 26
Private networks 18
Protocol Data Unit (PDU) 24
Provisioning management 78

-Q-
Quality of service (QoS) 44-45

-R-
Regulation
        in telecommunications 21
Reliability modeling 291
Resource contention 58
RFC/1483 258
RIP 259
RMON 273
Routing Information Protocol (RIP) 259

-S-
Security management
        description of 77-78
Segmentation and reassembly sublayer (SAR) 46-47
Server 14
set theory 274
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) 68, 118-127
SMDS 113
SMI 120
SNAP 258
SNMP 113, 120
SNMP Constructs 105, 109-112
Software 19
SONET 31, 32, 113, 263
        bandwidth 31
SQL-type 259
Standards 28
        gaps and ambiguities 58-59
Subnetworks 66
Surveillance of layer management protocols 130
Switched Multimegabit Data Service (SMDS) 39
Switched Virtual Channels, SVCs 39
Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) 31
Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) 23
System Network Architecture 25

-T-
TCP/IP 118
TCP/IP family 133
Test equipment, ATM-based 14
Token Ring 18, 22, 24, 26, 51
Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) 28
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (T 27
Transmission Convergence (TC) sublayer 43
Transmission media 19
Type A communication 88
Type B communication method 88

-U-
UNI 3.1 265
UNI 4.0 265
UNI Management Entities (UMEs) 99
Unshielded twisted-pair cabling (UTP) 59
Unspecified bit-rate service 297
User-to-nework interface (UNI) 38
User-to-user quality of service 44

-V-
Variable bit-rate service 296
VCC level CNM information 113
Video applications 69
Virtual Channel Connections (VCCs) 72
Virtual Channel Identifier (VCI) 39
Virtual Channels 43
Virtual corporation 223
Virtual LANs (VLANs) 25
Virtual networks 11
Virtual Path Connections (VPCs) 72
Virtual Path Identifier (VPI) 39
Virtual Paths 43
Visualization 227-229
VLANs 252, 264-268, 272, 272-273
VPC level CNM information 113

-W-
WAN technologies 22
Web server 295
World Wide Web 8, 221-222, 226

-X-
X.25 18
X.25-based packet services 25
X/Open 134