ITU-T Recommendations

The purpose of this Recommendation is to provide the common Stages 2 and 3 description of the Q3 interface between a local exchange and the Telecommunications Management Network (TMN) for the support of configuration management functions in support of customer administration. Customer administration is a management activity that the network operator performs in order to exchange with the customer all the customer related management data and functions required to offer a telecommunications service, and to exchange with the network all the customer related management data and functions necessary for the network to produce that telecommunications service. This Recommendation supports the administration of the customer configuration in the local exchange by the TMN. This Recommendation is part of a series of Recommendations. In this Recommendation the common non-technology specific managed objects are defined.