Project Overview

Celtic MAGNETO is a 2.5 year project that is aiming to develop an innovative distributed management framework and service management middleware that will enable integrated service and network management for outer edge devices in emerging networks. The framework provides a means to incorporate the management of home networks into telecommunication service provider management systems to provide end to end service management. The framework also provides a means to organise the management systems into discrete management domains, thus allowing these systems to scale to deal with anticipated expansion into millions of connected outer edge networks. These domains will form a basis for self management of outer edge networks based on an autonomic approach. This will enable self configuration of devices and autonomic handling of assurance issues relating to the operation of services once services have been deployed. The framework will also serve as a basis for providing cross cutting security for home networks. Magneto recognises that service provision in the future will occur in a multiple service provider environment and the Magneto management system will be designed to seamlessly enable such competition.

Project Implementation

In the Celtic Magneto project the TSSG are leaders of WP3 “Research and Technology”, were we are carrying out detailed research into the application of specific technologies to the provision of end to end network and service management in Multimedia over IP Networks. The management of a specific domain must be as self contained as possible so the group are examining how a common Autonomic Framework might be applied to all management domains. Such an Autonomic framework will monitor, analyse, plan and execute appropriate actions in order to maintain system stability and also to ensure its optimal operation and security over a highly distributed framework. Extending service provisioning and service assurance to the outer edge is a real challenge for service providers. We are examining key aspects of how to provide such services in the network context, and how to assure those services once they are defined.

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Contact
Project Manager = Kevin Quinn
Email +kquinn@tssg.org
Tel: +353 51 302973