Traditional network management systems are organized along silos for the different communication network technologies, like radio networks or transport networks. As a consequence of this architecture there is little or no knowledge in one management system about the other management systems. Also, typically there is no information exchange between these systems. This is why true end to end management is normally not possible. This industry is moving towards removing these silos. Numerous activities have been started recently. One direction is the general harmonisation and alignment of the management approaches and management interfaces. Another direction is the development of management applications being able to deal with management information for several network technologies. The final goal is a converged OSS. This study assumes that this converged OSS is already in place. The scope of this study is to investigate which new functionalities regarding a true end to end management are enabled by a converged OSS. The fragments looked at are Fault Management, Performance Management and Configuration Management.

The present document investigates which new functionalities regarding a true end to end management are enabled by a converged OSS. The fragments looked at are Fault Management, Performance Management and Configuration Management.