Cable Networks, Services, and Management

by Mehmet Toy (Editor)

Overview

This is the first book describing cable networks, services, and their management in greater detail by thirteen experts in various fields covering network architectures and services, operations, administration, maintenance, provisioning, troubleshooting (OAMPT) for residential services; network architectures, services, and OAMPT for business services; Software Defined Networks (SDN) and Virtualization concepts

• Comprehensive reference book useful for people working for a multiple systems operator
• Includes chapter introductions
• Written by 13 experts in various fields such as network services and soft defined networks

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781118837597
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	02/02/2015
Series:	IEEE Press Series on Network and Service Management
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Mehmet Toy, Ph.D, is a Distinguished Engineer at Comcast, USA, involved in network architectures and standards. Previously, Dr. Toy held management and technical positions at ADVA Optical Networking, Intel Corporation, Verizon Wireless, Axiowave Networks, Fujitsu Network Communications, AT&T Bell Labs and Lucent Technologies. He has contributed to research, development and standardization of Cloud Services Architectures, Metro Ethernet, DOCSIS Provisioning of EPON (DPoE), IP Multimedia Systems (IMS), Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), optical, IP/MPLS, and wireless. He has authored four books, and numerous articles in these areas and signal processing, and has taught at universities as a tenure-track and adjunct faculty member.

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Table of Contents

Preface vii

Contributors ix

1 Introduction and Overview 1

1.1 Introduction 1

1.2 Residential Network Architectures and Services 2

1.3 OAMPT (Operations, Administration, Maintenance, Provisioning, Troubleshooting) for Residential Services 4

1.4 Business Network Architectures and Services 6

1.5 OAMPT for Business Services 7

1.6 Future Directions in Cable Networks, Services and Management 8

2 Residential Network Architectures and Services 11

2.1 Introduction 11

2.2 DOCSIS 3.0/3.1 Architecture and Services 12

2.3 PacketCable Architecture and Services 22

2.4 IMS Architecture and Services 26

2.5 TPTV Architecture and Services 34

2.6 CDN Architecture and Services 45

2.7 CCAP Architectures and Services 53

2.8 Wi-Fi Architecture and Services 69

2.9 Conclusion 78

References 80

3 Operations, Administration, Maintenance, Provisioning, and Troubleshooting for Residential Services 84

3.1 Introduction 84

3.2 Operational Systems and Management Architectures 85

3.3 Service Orders 89

3.4 Provisioning 91

3.5 Fault Management 92

3.6 Performance Management 94

3.7 Billing Systems and Formats 97

3.8 Security 99

3.9 Conclusion 131

References 132

4 Business Network Architectures and Services 134

4.1 Introduction 134

4.2 Metro Ethernet Architecture and Services 135

4.3 DPoE Architecture and Services 161

4.4 EPoC Architecture and Services 168

4.5 Business Voice 171

4.6 Conclusion 180 References 181

5 Operations, Administration, Maintenance, Provisioning, and Troubleshooting for Business Services 183

5.1 Introduction 183

5.2 Operations Systems and Management Architectures 184

5.3 Service Orders 196

5.4 Provisioning 205

5.5 Fault Management 224

5.6 Performance Management 230

5.7 Billing Systems and Formats 235

5.8 Security 236

5.9 Conclusion 241

References 243

6 Future Directions in Cable Networks, Services and Management 246

6.1 Introduction 246

6.2 Cloud Services 247

6.3 Virtualization 274

6.4 Network Functions Virtualization 295

6.5 Software-Defined Networks 297

6.6 Self-Managed Networks 318

6.7 Conclusion 337

References 338

Index 341