Comparison of TMN to TL1

TMN is object-oriented; TL1 is not

TMN Entities are more granular than TL1 entities

In TL1, one object represents an OC3 termination

In TMN there are three objects - one for each SDH layer

 optTTP

 rsTTP

 msTTP

Error Handling is at a Higher Level

TMN has no "Are you sure?" prompts as in TL1

Purely a Machine-to-Machine Interface

CMIP requests are much more complex than TL1 requests.

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