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The Need to Automate and Integrate Delivery and Assurance across Today's Networks and Services
Table of Contents:
Definition and Overview
1. User Perspectives, Provider Realities
2. Far More Than the Loop
3. A Manual Problem
4. Automated Solution
5. The LEC and DSL
6. DSL and the NAP
7. NSP and DSL
8. Conclusion
Self-Test
Glossary
PDF of this tutorial
Self-Test
1. From the service provider perspective, DSL is transparent.
a. true
b. false
2. Which of the following is
not
involved in the DSL supply chain?
a. NAPs
b. LSRs
c. NSPs
d. LECs
3. Before packets can even proceed to the NSP, packet concentration occurs in
all
of the following
except
___________.
a. aggregators
b. DSLAMs
c. management layers
d. ATM networks
4. Initial deployments of DSL were in the late 1980s.
a. true
b. false
5. To implement service assurance throughout the entire DSL supply chain, it is important first to speed the order activation process.
a. true
b. false
6. Which of the following is
not
true about the LEC regarding DSL?
a. moves data over a dedicated DSL infrastructure
b. provides the twisted copper pair
c. acts as a wholesaler of copper or spectrum to other carriers or providers
d. has the closest physical proximity to DSL subscribers
7. The current POTS test system will
not
support DSL’s wideband testing requirements.
a. true
b. false
8. From a business perspective, the _____ is the LEC’s primary DSL consumer.
a. NSP
b. small business
c. MDU
d. NAP
9. Which of the following is another name for the NSP?
a. PSTN
b. LEC
c. ISP
d. VP
10. For the carrier-scale ability to deliver DSL services, service providers must link and automate their service activation and assurance processes.
a. true
b. false
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