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Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2015

Filed:

Dec. 06, 2012
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

William F. Berg, Rochester, MN (US);

Ronald L. Billau, Rochester, MN (US);

Canio Cillis, Berlin, DE;

Wissam A. Elriachy, Rochester, MN (US);

Heike Leuschner, Berlin, DE;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/66 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06F 11/07 (2006.01); H04W 40/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/08972 (2013.01); G06F 11/0766 (2013.01);
Abstract

A network management system utilizes an element manager at the RNC level to reduce the workload and efficiently manage multiple wireless appliances in a mobile data network. Management communications from the network management system flow through the element manager to all devices under the RNC level appliance hosting the element manager. The element manager provides for fault management, performance monitoring and configuration of the many breakout appliances and reports necessary information back to the network management system.


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