management alone and specialized for specific telecom network and devices. Most of the network equipment manufacturers are the major developers of telecom specific network management products. Cisco's Unified Communications Network Management suite (the suite consists of Cisco Unified Provisioning Manager, Cisco Unified Operations Manager, Cisco Unified Service Monitor and Cisco Unified Service Statistics Manager), Alcatel-Lucent's 1300 Convergent Network Management Center (CMC) for integrated network management, and Nortel's Integrated Element Management System (IEMS) are a few examples of products that fall in this category. 13.7 Conclusion There are many NMS products and frameworks available in the market. The offi- cial guide published by the vendors for some of these products itself span 300 to Fundamentals of EMS, NMS and OSS/BSS 400 pages. A complete explanation of the features and architecture of any specific NMS product was excluded for this reason and a general overview of the most popular frameworks/products was done in this chapter. It can be seen from the Additional Reading section next that some of the products discussed in this chapter have books written for the sole purpose of understanding a specific capability of that product alone. This chapter gives the reader familiarity with products from the leading telecom management players. Additional Reading 1. OpenNMS Documentation www.opennms.org/index.php/Docu-overview and AdventNet Web NMS Technical Documentation www.adventnet.com/products/web- inms/documentation.html 2. Jill Huntington-Lee, Kornel Terplan, and Jeffrey A. Gibson. HP's Open View: A Practical Guide. New York: McGraw-Hill Companies, 1997. 3. Yoichiro Ishii and Hiroshi Kashima. All About Tivoli Management Agents. Austin, TX: IBM Redbooks, 1999. 4. IBM Redbooks. An Introduction to Tivoli Enterprise. Austin, TX, 1999. 5. Tammy Zitello, Deborah Williams, and Paul Weber. HP OpenView System Administration Handbook: Network Node Manager, Customer Views, Service Information Portal, Open View O