A toolkit for managing multi-protocol interconnections

Within the last few years, many new technologies have emerged, appearing to be promising to the domain of equipment, network and service management. Often shown as competitors to TMN principles and underlying models, these approaches have been used sparsely in various projects. In this paper, we present the use of one of these technologies, namely Java, to implement a network information model which captures the essence of multi-protocol interconnections. We apply the developed concepts for the real-world scenarios of ATM and Frame Relay interconnection. We show how the TMN concepts stay valid and how the existing and extended information models can be reused and implemented according to the TMN principles in a full Java environmen