Element Management System and Network Management System

What Is The Difference Between Element Management System and Network Management System?

 

Before we get down to pointing out to the differences between Element Management System (EMS) and Network Management System (NMS) let’s define it for you. These are used widely in the telecom industry almost interchangeably. But these two terminologies are different in their actual meaning and even though these are interchangeable you should know what they actually mean and how they are applied!

So let’s begin by defining these two concepts. Element Management System is a system that manages one or more network elements. These are also known as NEs. You can use this application to manage the features of the NEs. However to manage the communication of these NEs you will require the NMS.  SNMP, TL1, CLI, XML, and CORBA are some of the protocols used by the management interfaces. 

 

Network Management System, on the other hand, is a system that combines software and hardware to administer and monitor a work. This element also refers to the maintenance and administration of large scale computer networks at the top level. Controlling, planning, allocating, deploying, coordinating and monitoring the resources of a network are managed by the Network Management Services. Fault management, configuration management, accounting management, performance management, security management and bandwidth management are the functions of this system.

Protocols like SNMP, TL1 and JMX are used by this system. Specifically these are the technical differences between these two systems and that’s what you need to know before setting out.