A VPN Management Architecture for Supporting CNM Services in ATM Networks

Abstract

As enterprises use ATM networks for their private networks and as these private networks use public ATM networks for wide area communication, the need for the customers to be able to manage both private and public networks is increasing. Currently, some standardization work is being done towards providing this capability to the customers. In this paper, we propose a virtual private network (VPN) management architecture for supporting integrated customer and public network management in ATM networks. The key component of this architecture includes an integrated customer network management (CNM) agent and public network manager. It also incorporates a CORBA-based shared management knowledge (SMK) system to provide a distributed processing environment for the exchange of management information between managers and agents.KeywordsIntegrated customer and public network managementVPN ManagementCNM agentpublic network managerTMNATM networkCORBA-based SMK system