Abstract:As the business goals that network service providers (NSPs) seek to achieve evolve so must the tools and technologies employed to achieve those goals. The NSPs' primary business goal is simple: to improve the response, in the dimensions of both time and quality, to customers' needs. This goal has been and is driving NSPs to seek, develop, verify. and implement changes to their existing telecommunications network that will reduce signijicantly the interval from conception to implementation of new or modified se… Show more
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