CONTENTS

 1     Scope
 2     Information requirements
 3     Network status and performance data
 4     Interpretation of parameters
        4.1     Switching loss
        4.2     Circuit congestion loss
        4.3     Distant network loss
 5     Criteria for action
 6     Network management actions
        6.1     General
        6.2     Expansive actions
        6.3     Protective actions
        6.5     Actions during disasters
        6.6     Performance parameters for NM organizations
 7     Exchange of information
        7.3     Guidance on the use of common channel signalling for network management
        7.4     Information exchange for improving completion rate of  international transit calls
                  7.4.1     Information for exchange
 8     Beginning network management
        8.1     Utilizing existing resources and capabilities
                  8.1.1     Responsibility
                  8.1.2     Telephone operators
                  8.1.3     Exchange capabilities
                  8.1.4     Circuits
        8.2     Improving capabilities
 9     Considerations for the development of network management
        9.2     Advantages of the decentralized (distributed) approach
        9.3     Advantages of the centralized approach
        9.4     Network management operations systems
                  9.4.1     Performance reports
                  9.4.2     Other considerations
10     Intelligent Network
       10.1     Surveillance for an SCF via a signalling network
       10.2     Surveillance for an SCF via circuit groups
Annex A - Terminology for Intelligent Network
        A.1     Adjunct (AD)
        A.2     Call Control Function (CCF)
        A.3     Intelligent Peripheral (IP)
        A.4     Service Control Function (SCF)
        A.5     Service Node (SN)
        A.6     Service Switching Function (SSF)
        A.7     Service Switching Point (SSP)