Patent ID: 8149725

Claim:
A system for managing a telecommunications network, the system comprising: a system operations, administration, maintenance, and provisioning (OAM&P) entity that communicates OAM&P information to and from each of a plurality of applications directly, wherein at least one of the plurality of applications is different from another of the plurality of applications; and a network OAM&P entity for communicating OAM&P information between the system OAM&P entity and a network operations center, wherein the system OAM&P entity aggregates OAM&P information received from the plurality of applications and provides to the network OAM&P entity at least some of the aggregated OAM&P information received from the plurality of applications and wherein the network OAM&P entity aggregates information received from the system OAM&P entity and provides to the network operations center at least some of the aggregated OAM&P information received from the system OAM&P entity.