ABSTRACT

Over the past two decades, business volume of hardware and software in the U.S has decreased by about seventy percent, while the cost of management and support has grown from $20 billion to $140 billion. With close to seventy percent of this growing figure being spent on the management of legacy systems and only thirty percent on new systems, impro

chapter 1|2 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|40 pages

Evolution of Networks

chapter 3|66 pages

Evolution in Network Management

chapter 5|128 pages

Management of Emerging Networks and Services

chapter 6|22 pages

Autonomic Computing and Self-Management