The most accurate definition of a network management system that I have seen comes from a Cisco training document: “In some cases, it (network management) involves a solitary network consultant ...

Ethernet is becoming ubiquitous on factory floors. Expectations are, for example, that Ethernet nodes in the process industries will nearly double over the next few years. The market research firm IMS ...

Does software-defined networking need software-defined network management? Today's network management discipline has numerous problems that will affect software-defined networks (SDNs). The Trouble ...

Touted as frameworks for component-like network software tools, they were theoretical successes but practical failures. All too often, customers discarded NMS, in favor of management software bundled ...