MAGNETO

Coordinator: Gabriel Hogan, e-mail: gabriel.hogan (at) ericsson.com

Involved countries: Ireland, Austria, France, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Canada

Abstract

As it stands today, the management of these outer edge devices is very heterogeneous. There are many competing and overlapping standards. It is very unlikely that any one of these standards will emerge as the sole winner in the near future. As a consequence, an architecture that includes management of outer edge devices must be very flexible and adaptable to future service creation and deployment scenarios and emerging network technologies. Moreover, an outer edge management platform must take a full systems approach to providing seamless service and network management across both fixed and mobile access networks.

Magneto aims to develop an innovative distributed management framework and service management middleware that will enable integrated service and network management for outer edge devices in emerging networks. The framework will provide a means to incorporate the management of home networks into telecommunication service provider management systems to provide end to end service management. The framework will also provide a means to organise the management systems into discrete management domains, thus allowing these systems to scale to deal with anticipated expansion into millions of connected outer edge networks. These domains will form a basis for self management of outer edge networks based on an autonomic approach. This will enable self configuration of devices and autonomic handling of assurance issues relating to the operation of services once services have been deployed. The framework will also serve as a basis for providing cross cutting security for home networks. Magneto recognises that service provision in the future will occur in a multiple service provider environment and the Magneto management system will be designed to seamlessly enable such competition.