This text provides a platform for the exchange of information between the research, standards, development, systems integrator, vendor and user communities in Network Management (NM). Coverage includes: an updated view of NM technologies; ideas on NM architectures and evolution; world-wide coverage of NM issues; positioning of different companies in the NM area both as providers and users; and different flavours of NM as seen from the Computer and Telecom Industries. This book should be of interest to engineers, network managers, university students in telecommunications and computer networks courses.