8. Conclusion

Standard data models condition the success of major network transformation towards the progressive introduction of automation techniques. Both the industry and the operators have addressed this important challenge for a couple of years or so. Even more so when considering the current investment of so-called network APIs : such effort is likely to be pointless without the said expertise.

Model-driven management provides a programmatic and standard-based approach for representing services or networks to an intelligence which is responsible for mastering the overall service/network management operations while gluing the capabilities and actions from various network devices that are used to build and deliver the service. A large number of data models, including network models and service models, (being) developed in many SDOs. However, how these models are glued and...