White Paper Abstract:
Information in this document is directed to competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs), incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs), and Post, Telephone, and Telegraph (PTT) agencies, collectively referred to as telcos (short for telephone companies). This document provides descriptions of Cisco network solutions for transporting data between a telephone switch and the Operations Support Systems (OSSs) in a telco data communications network (DCN).
The DCN transports network management traffic between network elements and their respective OSSs, making them a vital link between the service network and the network operations center (NOC). The solutions presented in following sections will help telcos migrate their legacy networks to a router-based TCP/IP network, which will simplify the DCN and reduce equipment costs