Quality multimedia distribution through resource management and performance monitoring over DSL networks

This paper describes a Copper Plant Manager concept for DSL first mile, which effectively enables performance monitoring, fault interpretation and dynamic link management. This concept copes with the nature and complexity of the underlying DSL network and presents a unified solution for controlling and managing its resources. An implementation of the CPM concept embedded in a Network Management System is described, together with the method proposed for using it to allocate DSL resources to satisfy the requirements of resource-demanding multimedia services such as IPTV.