Management & Operations
SONET, ATM and IP separately managed:
- transmission group little interaction with data
- Hyperstream separate from Internet iNOC
- iNOC operates vBNS switches & routers
Three levels of vBNS support
- 1st level: 24x7 monitoring of vBNS by iNOC
- 2nd level: 8x7 technical support at iNOC for problem resolution
- 3rd level: vBNS Engineering