1. SOURCE:ATIS TITLE:T1M1-OAM&P Committee (Operations, Administration, Maintenance & Provisioning) – Status for GSC AGENDA ITEM:GSC9/GTSC; #5.4 CONTACT:Mike Fargano (T1M1 OAM&P Chairman) mfargan@qwest.commfargan@qwest.com GSC9/GTSC-014 1 GSC-9, Seoul ATIS T1M1-OAM&P Committee (Operations, Administration, Maintenance & Provisioning) – Status for GSC Mike Fargano T1M1-OAM&P Chairman Wayne Zeuch ATIS GSC Delegation

2. GSC-9, Seoul 2 Network Management Common OAM&P Functionality and Technology – tML/XML, … Inter-Administration OAM&P –Common Language, OSS Interconnect, … Network Technology Specific OAM&P –Optical Networking, OSS/NE/EMS, … Network Management Focus Areas

3. GSC-9, Seoul 3 Network Management Standards provide industry efficiencies from common frameworks and models Key areas of work: –OSS/NE architecture, functionality, protocol, information exchange, and interfaces –Management Plane Security Publication of American National Standard T1.279 (providing detail for the management plane defined in the ITU-T security architecture Rec. X.805) –XML Framework and Applications XML-based OSS application standards work continues: Fault Management (Trouble Administration), … tML/XML transport protocol specification continues Common OAM&P Functionality and Technology

4. GSC-9, Seoul 4 Network Management Interoperability and intercommunication between service providers Key areas of work: –Coding and Language Data Representation (CLDR) –OSS-OSS interconnection interface applications (e.g., Trouble Administration) –OSS-OSS interconnection technologies (i.e., protocols, etc.) –NGN ETS: Disaster Relief Operations-to-Service Provider OSS communication interface for real-time information exchange –Global Data Definitions for inter-administration information exchange –Global Telecom Data Dictionary (GTDD) T1M1 OAM&P is leading the effort to create a registry of common names, definitions of information entities shared among enterprises Inter-Administration OAM&P

5. GSC-9, Seoul 5 Network Management Interoperability between and among service providers’ and suppliers’ systems Key areas of work: –OAM&P Interoperability among OSSs, EMSs, NEs –Optical Networking OAM&P (T1.231 revision - Layer 1 in-service digital performance monitoring) Network Technology Specific OAM&P

6. GSC-9, Seoul 6 Network Management T1M1 OAM&P currently has 53 active issues in its workplan ATIS T1M1 OAM&P Committee develops U.S. positions for the work in ITU-T Study Group 4 Topics of Special Interest – Current items being worked and tracked T1M1 continues OAM&P to work issues related to Definitions and terminology Procedures for performance and fault management Test and measurement techniques Management principles and architecture B2B and C2B management interfaces Framework for NGN management Management interface methodology/ models Application-specific information models Protocols for management interfaces Optical Transport Networks (OTN) Security of TMN transactions Performance management across jurisdictional boundaries

7. SOURCE:ATIS TITLE:T1M1-OAM&P Committee (Operations, Administration, Maintenance & Provisioning) – Status for GSC AGENDA ITEM:GSC9/GTSC; #5.4 CONTACT:Mike Fargano (T1M1 OAM&P Chairman) mfargan@qwest.commfargan@qwest.com GSC9/GTSC-014 7 GSC-9, Seoul Thank you