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Cisco ANA OSS/BSS Northbound Interface (NBI) White Paper

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Overview Cisco Active Network Abstraction (ANA) is an extensible and scalable product suite residing between the network elements and OSS management applications, providing unified end-to-end service-level management for service provider and large enterprise networks. This paper introduces the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) - based Web Services (WS) OSS/BSS integration interfaces for Cisco ANA. The paper presents an example of the NorthBound Interface (NBI) from a developer's perspective. Then it describes the underlying standards and techniques applied to the NBI. It also describes all of the services offered in the Cisco ANA Integration Software Development Kit (SDK).

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Publisher	Cisco Systems	File Format	PDF
Date Published	September 2007
Format	White Papers
Topics	Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture, Application Development

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