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A control system for a network element (NE) such as a remote digital terminal (RDT) in an integrated digital loop carrier (DLC) system is provided which comprises subsystems for operating circuit packs and for providing functions that are common to the circuit packs. Each subsystem has a subagent re

A control system for a network element (NE) such as a remote digital terminal (RDT) in an integrated digital loop carrier (DLC) system is provided which comprises subsystems for operating circuit packs and for providing functions that are common to the circuit packs. Each subsystem has a subagent residing on a network processor circuit pack. The subagents communicate via a common subagent interface. A NE which supports both OSI and non-OSI interfaces such as Transaction Language 1 (TL1) and Common Management Services Element (CMISE) interfaces is provided, along with a method for mapping TL1 commands to CMISE messages using TL1 proxy objects.

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Network management apparatus for interfacing a network element in an access system with at least two operations systems employed in an open system interconnection or OSI architecture, and a non-OSI architecture, respectively, the network management apparatus comprising: a first interface for interfa

Network management apparatus for interfacing a network element in an access system with at least two operations systems employed in an open system interconnection or OSI architecture, and a non-OSI architecture, respectively, the network management apparatus comprising: a first interface for interfacing said network element to said OSI operations system; a second interface for interfacing said network element to said non-OSI operations system; a control device coupled to the said first interface and said second interface for receiving OSI and non-OSI operations system commands from said first interface and said second interface, respectively; and a memory device coupled to said control device for storing a database of managed OSI-based object instances organized into object classes, and at least one table of data comprising an access identifier, at least one of said object classes and an object instance identifier corresponding to a non-OSI command; wherein said control device being programmable to process said OSI commands using said database and said non-OSI operations system commands using said table to create messages for requesting services on said object instances.