configuration management sets the admission policies, handles the establishment of special paths and fixes the prioritization rules within the network. 16.10 TERMINAL MANAGEMENT Terminals are becoming one of the most relevant elements when considering end-user capabilities. The increasing distributed processing power has created terminals (typically PCs) with high processing power and management capabilities. However, dumb terminals are still frequently used. Understanding Changing Telecommunications - Building a Successful Telecom Business Management of Terminals Most networks take care of the resources on terminals, but this requires some distribution of management functions and entities. The distribution is performed between the network and the terminal, allowing centralized and/or autonomous management. It also addresses the need to handle different type of terminals, ranging from intelligent to dumb, which require maintenance functions on the network with different degrees of assistance. The cooperation in management functions requires the existence of management proto- cols between network and terminals. Compare the CC/PP protocol, described in Chapter 7, Section 7.5.1. Management from Terminals A modern trend in telecommunication business is to allow and favour the end-user con- figuration of different services and network attributes. This provides extreme agility on service provisioning. The end user can also choose tailor-made solutions, selected from a defined menu of alternatives, on service implementation. This is an increasing trend that will be subject to further development, to provide additional configuration facilities to the end users. This can be done either through the corresponding network and its traditional terminals, or via dedicated terminals capable of more complex configuration capabilities and information interchange. Typical existing examples regarding this last case are operator's Internet pages, which allow service selection and configuration to the end users. 16.11 ACCESS NETWORK M