Automatic network element identity information distribution apparatus and method

Abstract From the Canadian patent

In a telecommunications management network including a network element provisioned as a so-called Directory Services Network Element (DSNE) and, at least one sub-network intended to include one or more network elements the, DSNE automatically distributes the identity information of all network elements in a, sub-network to all the network elements in that sub-network. Specifically the, DSNE automatically distributes all the identity information for all network elements, within a sub-network to a newly registered network element and also supplies the, identity information for the newly registered network element to all the other network elements within the sub-network. Since each …