ABSTRACT: This document provides the view of Telcordia on generic requirements for Frame Relay Network Elements (NE) operations. Operations is a generic term for a variety of typical Telcordia Client activities that are performed to plan, engineer, provision, maintain, administer, and manage networks and the services they each support. This document sets out the requirements for implementing functions and features in Frame Relay NEs (FR-NEs) to meet operations needs. It also outlines the preliminary approach toward requirements for the interfaces between FR-NEs and Management Systems (MSs, formerly termed Operations Systems, OSs).

These generic requirements pertain to the management of the Frame Relay network as well as providing necessary data to Customer Network Management (CNM) service and Exchange Access Operations Management (XA-OM) service.

GR-1327 replaced TA-NWT-001327.