Current Internal based

management systems

SmartMIB Multi-carrier

Management system

Performance

Management

Monitors a single

network ONLY

Monitors across

multiple carrier networks

Network QoS

Capabilities

Two tiers

of service

Many tiers

of service

Network Service Accounting

Flat rate

Could be structured on one or more of the following:

• Usage-,

• content-, and/or

• quality-based

SLA guarantees

On-Net only

(within the specific Campus)

On-Net and off-Net

(Across multiple campuses and networks)

Network Services  Provisioning

None

Structured and Configurable: Manually or Dynamically automated

Network Logical Grouping

Flat Grouping. Or effectively No grouping of devices; if its in the inventory, a device is managed the same way!

Grouping is layered/structured across services as well as managed elements. Administrator configurable managed zones.

Management Policy Provisioning

A single policy (management Process) for all managed elements. Typically a default hard coded

Different Policies provisioning per logical subset of managed elements and/or topology

User Roles

Application Feature based User Roles. Typically independent of the actual management processes and logical grouping of managed devices

Application plus Network Zoning and logical grouping User Roles; That is Application Users have control over both the management processes and managed information