Service Provider consider the ability to manage an increasing network complexity more efficient and effective as ´mission critical´ - because today´s network infrastructure continues to grow and new IP services (e.g. VPN, VoIP, QoS, MPLS, ...) emerge.

Therefor Service Providers have to migrate from manual, static provisioning models towards highly dynamic service-oriented automated provisioning models.

Business Router Management is driven by 

• the increasing complexity of network management activities,
• naturally limited human involvement and
• customer demand for rapid service turn-up 

Using simple push-based models to configure business services while ignoring dependencies among configuration elements may easily lead to configuration inconsistencies resulting in failure or inefficiencies. Manual provisioning methods and manual element interconnection across multiple discrete elements leaves a high margin for errors.

Existing Network Management architectures based on SNMP do not fit to suit the needs of automated provisioning in a large scale environment due to some well known limitations.