OAM&P:

• OAM&P stands for Operations, Administration, Maintenance & Provisioning.
• Using synchronous network technology has several benefits, it has more bandwidth available by using optical fibers, but SONET and SDH have been designed with extensive maintenance and error control features, these features are referred to as OAM&P.
• OAM&P allows the service providers to detetct, collect and correct network error conditions.
• The frames of both SONET and SDH provide a lot of bandwidth forerror detection and communication channels between equipments. This facilities the ability to manage the network from a central location. A good portion of the overhead assignments in each STS or STL level is used for the OAM&P functions.
• OAM refers to managing and maintaining a network device. The Provisioning has been added for the telecommunications industry as a term for setting up services creating the acronym OAM&P.
• Its components allow Service Providers and Enterprises alike to manage, maintain and provision their services and network devices from a centralized browser based environment.
• OAM&P handle the important daily tasks that leads to a successful deployment and effectively aids decision making teams in assessing key performance indicators to make the most accurate businesses decisions.
• In addition to providing the right information to decision makers, the requirement for a powerful OAM&P component is to also provide service managers with a powerful and easy to use Service Creation Environment for developing and deploying applications.
• The OAM&P Module functionality is broken down into the following key areas Configuration Management, Network Management, Service Creation, Fault Management and Performance Management.