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Authors:
Mihaela Iridon
Keywords: automated infrastructure management (AIM); system modeling; network infrastructure provisioning; data integration
Abstract:
Automated Infrastructure Management (AIM) systems are enterprise systems that provision a large number and variety of network infrastructure resources, including premises, organizational entities, and most importantly, all the telecommunication and connectivity assets. In 2016 the International Standards Organization released the ISO/IEC 18598 specifications that provide standardization and sensible guidelines for exposing data and features of AIM systems in order to facilitate integration with these systems. CommScope, the primary contributor in defining these standards, has implemented these specifications for their imVision system [1]. This paper elaborates primarily on the ISO-recommended infrastructure elements and how to design the resource models that represent them. It also discusses the layered architecture used to build CommScope’s imVision AIM system, and briefly describes a possible integration scenario between two AIM systems. Additionally, this article intends to share design and technology-specific considerations, challenges, and solutions adopted by CommScope, so that they may be translated and implemented by other organizations that intend to build - or integrate with - an AIM system in general.
Pages: 27 to 39
Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2017. Used with permission.
Publication date: June 30, 2017
Published in: journal
ISSN: 1942-2679