A staged approach for TMN to TINA migration

The TINA architecture is often perceived as a service layer specialized framework; however a detailed examination of the architectural context and ongoing work in the field demonstrates that it is not so, and that the TINA architecture can also be envisioned as a network management framework if care is taken about some TMN specifics. After making that point, the article proposes a conceptual architecture for interworking TMN and TINA based systems. It then describes a component architecture for a migrating OSI MIB that demonstrates concretely the feasibility of building a TMN-able agent running in a TINA based environment.