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Overview : General Description

General Description
Fulfillment Provisioning is an interface between service management applications and service elements. Service management applications define and drive the creation of new services at the operational level. Service elements activate these services at the network level.
Figure 1. Fulfillment Provisioning intermediates between management applications and service elements
Service Management Applications
Service management applications are used to define and create new services at the operational level. Such applications typically consist of customer care and billing systems that create service requests which require the following types of operations on a service:
Requests that arrive from these applications are generally in an external format. One task of a Fulfillment Provisioning application is to translate such requests into the internal service order format.
Service Elements
Service elements activate the services requested by management applications at the network level. Service elements consist of different types of network elements and network element managers. These elements are used to provision and activate the services requested by the management applications. Typical service elements include the following:
Fulfillment Provisioning
About this task 
Fulfillment Provisioning fulfills a service order in the following sequence:
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If errors occur anywhere in the provisioning and activation process, Fulfillment Provisioning rolls back partial work to an acceptable state. While this provisioning and activation process is taking place, you can administer the process through the web-based user interface. Administration capabilities include operational control, system configuration, alarm management, log access, and system upgrades.

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