System and method for testing automated provisioning and maintenance of operations support systems

摘要

The present invention provides a complete virtual multi-vendor EMS based network that behaves identical to the network elements of the EMS clients. A virtual network simulator is built that has the ability to faithfully simulate the behavior of any vendor's EMS to represent the data objects required by the TMF 814 specification. This allows automatic provisioning and maintenance of the Operation Support Systems to fully test new functionality against complete EMS based network without depending upon the availability of any physical equipment, thereby providing much quicker, low cost, extremely life-like testing environment.

主权项

1. A method to provision and maintain an operations support system associated with a telecommunications network, the method comprising:
receiving, from the operations support system, a request associated with a virtual network element of an element management system client, the virtual network element simulating behavior of the element management system client; creating, using a processing device, a virtual subnetwork circuit associated with the virtual network element, the virtual subnetwork circuit including first and second simulated element management system clients, the first and second simulated element management system clients including a set of data descriptions based on the request associated with the virtual network element using a database including attribute information associated with the virtual network element and provisioning logic, the virtual subnetwork circuit connecting the virtual network element between the first and second simulated element management system clients; transmitting, using the processing device, the set of data descriptions to the operations support system; and transmitting, using the processing device, an asynchronous notification associated with the set of data descriptions to the operations support system.