TA NWT 000472 : ISSUE 1

Bellcore's preliminary view of proposed generic functional requirements to manage the software of network elements. These functional requirements are divided into two categories, namely, software management and memory restoration. Software management involves loading and maintaining, to the extent possible, consistency among replicated databases which is critical to memory restoration. This TA focuses on the functional requirements pertinent to remote downloading of software generic as well as remote restoration of provisioned database