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Peering Point
Switch
A or B
Provider A Provider B
Mediation Mediation
Device A Device B
FIGu RE 4.5.9 Peering point—one switch.
• Determination of peering points
• Establishing and unifying management concepts
• Defining the depth of reporting
• Adding criteria to certification criteria
• Adding tasks to overseer
• Detailing settlement rules
4.5.3.3 Detailed Process Steps of Multiprovider Collaboration
In this section, all of the process steps listed in Section 4.5.3.2 will be detailed.
4.5.3.3.1 Asset Management for Sites of Clients and of Service Providers
Assets must be known and their status and availability must be up to date. In this context, the ownership
question must be addressed. Considering assets, the following object classes are relevant:
• Customer, client or subscriber of services
• Site
• Device or customer premises equipment
• Switch
• Router
• Distributor at multiple hierarchical layers
Attributes that must be maintained for each managed object, there are ITU and TeleManagement
Forum recommendations. To accomplish a unified asset management is not possible due to the large
number of isolated and different inventories. Usually, existing inventories include:
• Physical assets
• Business applications
• Customers
• Suppliers
• Parts (reserve, ordered, repaired parts)
4.5.3.3.2 Defining Administration Boundaries
At the boundary, the following managed objects may be identified (Figure 4.5.10 shows a schematic
overview):
