Ciena Corporation

Chetan Jain

Rajasekar Venkatesan

Ying Wang

Tong Luo

Rajagopalan Kannan

Abhishek Chaudhary

Meera Sundaram

Jiang Zhu

A framework is disclosed which enables a management system to manage completely different type of network elements (NEs) running different versions of their embedded software by introducing generic operational interfaces, generic data interfaces, information descriptors and self adaptive control mechanism. This Management system framework consists of mainly two parts a) core application and b) element-dependent components and c) a set of generic interfaces. When the management system is launched, it executes the core application. The core application comprises of network element independent version independent generic functionalities that can be used to interact with a variety of network elements and a dynamic control mechanism to make selection and placement of pluggable components at appropriate time and place during execution. After the core application is executed, whenever a need to manage one or more network elements, self adaptive control mechanism will take decision based on information descriptor of that target NE and NE type dependent version dependent modules are incorporated or 'plugged in' with core application to produce an overall management mechanism to manage that target NE.

Framework for enabling dynamic construction of a network element management mechanism

A method of interfacing with managed objects in a communication network, including: receiving an application independent request for service using generically represented data; mapping the request to a registry to determine the particular service application that can process the requested service; and executing the service application that can process the requested service. A network element in a communications network, includes: a managed object manager configured to map an application independent request for service and to forward the request to a service application that can process the requested service; and a registry coupled to the managed object manager and configured to provide mapped results that indicate the service application that can process the requested service.

Apparatus and generic method for interfacing with managed objects in a communication network

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