Nortel Networks Corporation

Notel Networks Corporation

Timothy John Edwards

Peter G Hamer

Phillip William Hobson

Kevin John Twitchen

Andrew J Tunnicliffe

Gillian Barbara Kendon

Paul Colin Barson

Simon Field

Jonathon Coward

Stephen Charles Cross

A method and apparatus for managing at least part of a communications network and particularly for managing a customer network, for example, within an asynchronous transfer mode communications network. A predictor is used to predict parameters such as bandwidth levels and to predict when the parameter(s) will exceed capacity or previously agreed thresholds. These agreed levels may be specified for example in a service level agreement between a service provider and a customer. The predictor also predicts, how much excess there will be and how long this will occur for. This information is provided to the service provider/customer and also can be provided to an agent which comprises a computer system. This agent negotiates on behalf of either the customer (for example) with another agent acting on behalf of the service provider (for example) and in this way new terms for an agreement between the two parties is obtained.

Method and apparatus for managing at least part of a communications network

A method of predicting at least one future value of a time series of data using a neural network comprising the steps of:

Method and apparatus for forecasting future values of a time series

A method of managing the processing of information using a first neural network, the information relating to the transmission of messages in a telecommunications network, uses the steps of:

Monitoring and retraining neural network

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