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RE: Status of FCAPS model? Useful? Obsolete?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hannigan, Martin)
Mon Nov 8 23:55:15 2004

From: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 23:54:39 -0500 
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]
> Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 8:52 PM
> To: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Status of FCAPS model? Useful? Obsolete?
> 
> 
> 
> Someone at Forrester research wrote an article in 2003 that 
> said FCAPS was 
> an obsolete model because
>   it was conceived during a time when mainframes were in use. 
> I haven't 
> read the article but the
>   premise of it seemed a bit overboard to me.
> 
> Does the FCAPS model still hold currency among network 
> managers/engineers 
> today? 

What's FCAPS?


-M<

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