Subscription Management is a feature that permits Service Providers, Value Added Service Providers and Mobile Operators to provision services for a specific subscriber. Subscription Management is an area of Service Operation Management that sets a complex challenge for Service Providers and Operators in their support of new or existing subscribers during their every day network operation.
The present document is part a TS-family covering the 3rd Generation Partnership Project; Technical Specification Group Services and System Aspects; Telecommunication management, as identified below:
TS 32.140:
Subscription Management (SuM) requirements.
TS 32.141:
Subscription Management (SuM) architecture.
TS 28.751:
Subscription Management (SuM) Network Resource Model (NRM) Integration Reference Point (IRP); Requirements.
TS 28.752:
Subscription Management (SuM) Network Resource Model (NRM) Integration Reference Point (IRP); Information Service (IS).
TS 28.753:
Subscription Management (SuM) Network Resource Model (NRM) Integration Reference Point (IRP); Solution Set (SS) definitions.
The present document defines, in addition to the requirements defined in [1], [2], [3] and [4], requirements for the present IRP: SuM NRM IRP.
The following documents contain provisions which, through reference in this text, constitute provisions of the present document.
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References are either specific (identified by date of publication, edition number, version number, etc.) or non-specific.
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For a specific reference, subsequent revisions do not apply.
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For a non-specific reference, the latest version applies. In the case of a reference to a 3GPP document (including a GSM document), a non-specific reference implicitly refers to the latest version of that document in the same Release as the present document.
[1]
TS 32.101: "Telecommunication management; Principles and high level requirements".
[2]
TS 32.102: "Telecommunication management; Architecture".
[3]
TS 32.140: "Telecommunication management; Subscription Management (SuM) requirements".
[4]
TS 32.141: "Telecommunication management; Subscription Management (SuM) architecture".
[5]
TS 32.600: "Telecommunication management; Configuration Management (CM); Concept and high-level requirements".
[6]
TS 32.107: "Telecommunication management; Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) Federated Network Information Model (FNIM)".
[7]
TS 28.620: "Telecommunication management; Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) Federated Network Information Model (FNIM) Umbrella Information Model (UIM)".
The following general and high-level requirements apply for the present IRP:
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IRP-related requirements in TS 32.101.
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IRP-related requirements in TS 32.102.
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IRP-related requirements in TS 32.140.
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IRP-related requirements in TS 32.141.
The NRM defined by this IRP:
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Shall support communications for telecommunication network management purposes, including management of converged networks.
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Is a member of the Federated Network Information Model (FNIM) [6] and its information is derived from the FNIM Umbrella Information Model (UIM) [7].