Telecommunication industry is experiencing an unprecedented growth in the global market place in these days. The spectrum of this growth varies from building an infrastructure based on advanced technologies in developing countries to offering high-speed multimedia broad band services in developed countries.
Network management is provided today using a variety of data communications protocols ranging such as Protocol 95,BX.25 and X.25. Network management information, also referred to as operations messages are specified in many cases using character strings with delimiters. This plethora of communication protocols has resulted in islands being created with dependency on one or two suppliers in order to have interoperable interface between network elements responsible providing services and operations systems or supervisory systems that manage the network elements. The extent to which the network elements are managed has varied significantly based on the service providers or network providers.