Patent ID: 6085255
Filing Date: 2000-07-04
Classification: H04L,H04Q

Abstract:
A method for re-engineering a telecommunications network having communicating operational components, comprising:selecting first and second operational components of the telecommunications network and a first network information channel between said first and second operational components for communicating first network management information for managing said telecommunications network, wherein the first network information channel is communicated in a predetermined first protocol and wherein the first network management information is for transitioning said first operational component into a preferred state;establishing a second network information channel between said first and second operational components, wherein:(A1) on said second network information channel, said first and second operational components perform at least one of a sending and a receiving of network management information in said first protocol; and(A2) said second network information channel includes one or more translators for translating network management information between said first protocol and a different second protocol;re-routing the first network management information, from the first network information channel to said second network information channel, wherein upon receiving said re-routed first network management information in said first protocol from one of said first and second operational components, one of said translators outputs second network management information in said second protocol;utilizing the re-routed first network management information communicated between said first and second operational components, via said second network information channel, for transitioning said first operational component into said preferred state;providing said second network management information to a network communication manager for said telecommunications network using said second network information channel; andrepeatedly performing the above steps with: (a) a different operational component of said telecommunications network as an instance of said first operational component, (b) said same second operational component, and (c) said same network communication manager until each network information channel connecting an instance of said first operational component to said same second operational component is one of an instance of said first network information channel and an instance of said second network information channel.