Conclusion
On the critical importance of vendor-agnostic, standard data models

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...