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TMN: Telecommunications Management Networks

The document introduces Telecommunications Management Networks (TMN), which is an internationally recommended concept for managing telecommunications networks using standard interfaces. TMN emerged in 1988 from CCITT standards and allows networks composed of multi-vendor equipment to interoperate. TMN defines nodes such as Operation Systems, Work Stations, Mediation Devices, and Network Elements that interact through standard interfaces like Q1-Q3 and X/F to manage network operations, administration, maintenance and provisioning.

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TMN: Telecommunications Management Networks

The document introduces Telecommunications Management Networks (TMN), which is an internationally recommended concept for managing telecommunications networks using standard interfaces. TMN emerged in 1988 from CCITT standards and allows networks composed of multi-vendor equipment to interoperate. TMN defines nodes such as Operation Systems, Work Stations, Mediation Devices, and Network Elements that interact through standard interfaces like Q1-Q3 and X/F to manage network operations, administration, maintenance and provisioning.

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MANAGEMENT
ANAGEMENT

TMN: Telecommunications
Management Networks
Saad Haj Bakry, PhD, CEng, FIEE

Saad Haj Bakry, PhD, CEng, FIEE

TMN: Telecommunications Management Networks

Objectives / Contents
Introducing
TMN

TMN

Nodes

TMN

Interfaces
Support

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TMN: Telecommunications Management Networks

TMN: Emergence
Birth:

1988 by the CCITT (ITU-T)


First

Implementation of TMN Interfaces:


1992 (ITU-T)

Current

State:
Continued Support (Standards / Products)

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TMN: Telecommunications Management Networks

TMN: Basic Concept


Managed System Telecommunications Networks
TMN: Management is performed
Managing System by a cooperating set of systems
(Network of Systems).
Purpose
How

Accommodating Diverse
Technologies (Multi-Vendors)
Using Standard Interfaces

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TMN: Telecommunications Management Networks

TMN: Operation Principle


Objective

Concerned with: Operation,


Administration, Maintenance, and
Provisioning (OAM&P).
Managed

Systems:
(Using) Network Elements (NEs)
Managing Systems:
Interaction
Operation Systems (OSs)
Interaction:
Standard Interfaces
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TMN: Structure
Another
TMN

OS: Operation System

WS

Q3

DCN: Data Comm. Network


Q3
Q3

Intelligent NEs
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MD: Mediation Device


Q1

Q2

Simple NEs

TMN: Telecommunications Management Networks

Nodes: Operation System (OS)


Definition:

The TMN Supervisory & Control System


Functionality

Layers:

Business / (Application) Management


Service Management
Network Management
Element Management
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Nodes: Work Station (WS)


Definition:

TMN Human Site


Function:

Provides Presentation Functions to the


Manager.
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TMN: Telecommunications Management Networks

Nodes: Mediation Device (MD)


& Q-Adaptor (QA)
Definition:

MD / QA are adaptors
(QA Connects TMN Systems to Non-TMN
systems)
Operations:

Storage, Adaptation, Filtering, Thresh-holding,


Condensing, Data from Subtending Equipment.
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Nodes: Network Element (NE)


Location:

NE resides in the Managed Telecom


Network to Handle Traffic (Not
Management)
Operation:

Origin & Destination of management


Supervision & Control.
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TMN: Telecommunications Management Networks

Data Communication
Network: DCN
Definition:

TMN Communication Network Between Nodes


(The Transportation Mean of the TMN World)
DCN

versus The Managed Network:

Initially assumed to be Independent


This restriction has been Relaxed to reduce Cost
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TMN: Telecommunications Management Networks

Interfaces
Function:

Interfaces govern the manner in which


management systems interact.
Standards:

Standards for interfaces are emphasized to


allow nodes (of different vendors) to interact.
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TMN: Telecommunications Management Networks

Interface: Q1
Q1

Interfacing:
MD - [Q1] NE
A number of small scale NEs supported an MD
(Multiplexing & Transmission Equipment)

Scope:

Layers 1 & 2 of ISO-OSI 7 Layers


Activities:
Transporting Alarm States (Binary Indications)
Loop-Back Requests

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TMN: Telecommunications Management Networks

Interface: Q2
Q2

Interfacing:
MD - [Q2] NE (more sophisticated)
More intelligent large scale NEs
(More Sophisticated Multiplexing & Transmission)

Scope:

Layers 1, 2 and 3 of ISO-OSI 7 Layers


Activities:
More sophisticated than Q1
Alarm Surveillance
Data Transfer (not only binary indications)
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TMN: Telecommunications Management Networks

Interface: Q3
Q3

Interfacing:

OS - [Q3] NE / OS - [Q3] QA
OS [Q3] MD / OS [Q3] OS
Intelligent Nes for Intelligent Equipment (Switches)
Scope:

Layers 1 to 7 of ISO-OSI 7 Layers


Activities:
More sophisticated than Q2
Full Capability Interface.

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TMN: Telecommunications Management Networks

Interfaces: X / F
X Interfacing:
OS (TMN:1)
[X]

OS (TMN:2)
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F Interfacing:
WS
[F]
Other Nodes
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TMN: Telecommunications Management Networks

Functions: OS Level
Surveillance / Control
Service

objectives / Reference
Compare performance data to
maintenance limits
Invoke maintenance.
Preventive &
Corrective
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TMN: Telecommunications Management Networks

Functions: DCN Level


Communications
Transport performance
information & commands
via
protocols, languages & messages
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TMN: Telecommunications Management Networks

Functions: MD Level
Mediation
Provides
data pre-processing & concentration
plus
protocol conversion
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TMN: Telecommunications Management Networks

Functions: NE Level
Monitoring & Testing
Generates
alarms &
performance information
for
reporting to OS
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TMN: Telecommunications Management Networks

Remarks
TMN

Internationally recommended concept


Well supported by standards
Important

Relationships

ISO & Internet (SNMP)


Future:

NM products supporting TMN


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TMN: Telecommunications Management Networks

ITU-T Standard Groups


Topic

Group

Standards

Network Maintenance

SG 4

M-series

Data Networks and Open


System Communication

SG 7

X-series

Switching & Signaling

SG 11

Q-series

Transmission Systems

SG 15

G-series

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TMN: Telecommunications Management Networks

Standard Documents
ITU-T (CCITT) TMN Standards
Principles of TMN
TMN Management Services
TMN Interface Specification Methodology

Overview of TMN Recommendations


TMN Management Functions
Systems Management Overview
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M.3010
M.3200
M.3020
M.3000
M.3400
X.701
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TMN: Telecommunications Management Networks

References
Enter

the World of TMN, IEEE


Communications Magazine (Special Issue),
Vol. 33, No. 3, March 1995.

Gruber

J.J., Transmission Performance Of


Evolving Telecommunications Networks,
Artech House, Boston-London, 1992.

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