13.1.4 Alignment with eTom and m.3060 architectural concepts uid_390016

Resources: S5

References

Document	Title/Contents
WID(s)
SP-080068	WID on Alignment with eTOM and M.3060 architectural concepts
Impacted Specifications
TS 32.101	Telecommunication management; Principles and high level requirements (Update Telecom Operation Map references)
TS 32.102	Telecommunication management; Architecture (Update of ITU-T TMN NGNM architectural concepts)
New Dedicated Specifications/Reports
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UID	Name	Acronym	Resource	Hyperlink	rapporteur	TS_TR
340063	OAM&P 8	OAM8	-	-	-	-
340064	Network Infrastructure Management	OAM8-NIM	S5	-	-	-
390016	Alignment with eTOM and M.3060 architectural concepts	OAM8	S5	SP-080068	TeliaSonera	32.101/2, 32-series

The PLMN Management architecture is based on ITU-T TMN Recommendation M.3010 and early work of TMForum addressing common working procedures in Telecom called "Telecom Operations Map" (TOM).

TMForum has developed the extended TOM (eTOM), superseding TOM and now widely adopted among operators. ITU-T has published a new set of TMN documents incorporating requirements for the management of Next Generation Networks (NGN), a Service-Oriented Architecture and alignment with the updated business process views from eTOM. Valuable new concepts were added to better support network services, business processes and to reduce operational costs.

The 3GPP TM specifications need to adopt the development of the telecom operators market and the challenges the new services will have on management of the networks. The prime approach of the 3G TM work was to reuse functions, methods and interfaces already defined (or being defined) that were suitable to the management needs of a PLMN.

The fundamental reused platforms have been updated and the SA5 specifications need to be updated accordingly.

The TMN NGN architecture includes a new business process view, based on eTOM. The goal of NGN is to provide the capabilities to make possible the creation, deployment and management of all kind of services. To achieve this it is necessary to decouple and make independent the service creation/deployment infrastructure from the transport infrastructure.

New reference points enabling more run-time flexibility were added. The BML layer is obsolete. A new management layered architecture is introduced. Significant redefinitions of basic concepts as management function blocks, WSF is absorbed into OSF and NEF.

The new concepts need alignment between 3GPP TM and ITU-T TMN NGN, ETSI TISPAN NGN OSS standards.