This series focuses on softwarization, management, and their integration in communication networks and services. “Network Softwarization” advocates for network architectures that separate the software implementing network functions, protocols and services from the hardware running them. “Network Management” aims to integrate fault, configuration, accounting, performance, and security capabilities in the network and to support self-management features, integral automation, and autonomic capabilities, empowering the network with inbuilt cognition and intelligence. The critical role that software and Management are increasingly playing in telecommunications is enabling unprecedented levels of abstraction, disaggregation, operation, integration, robustness, optimization, intelligence, precision delivery, programmability and cost and complexity reduction of infrastructures and services. Such an approach is resulting in even greater attainment of non-functional characteristics (e.g., qualities of the operation of a network, rather than specific behaviors, integrability, interoperability, operational guarantees, deployability, auditability and control, reliability, adaptability, elasticity, effectiveness, extensibility, automation and autonomicity).

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系列社论：网络软件化与管理

本系列重点介绍通信网络和服务中的软件化、管理及其集成。“网络软件化”提倡将实现网络功能、协议和服务的软件与运行它们的硬件分开的网络架构。“网络管理”旨在整合网络中的故障、配置、计费、性能和安全能力，并支持自我管理特性、整体自动化和自主能力，使网络具有内在的认知和智能。软件和管理在电信中日益发挥的关键作用正在实现前所未有的抽象、分解、操作、集成、稳健性、优化、智能、精确交付、基础设施和服务的可编程性以及成本和复杂性的降低。这种方法导致更大程度地实现非功能特性（例如，网络操作的质量，而不是特定行为、可集成性、互操作性、操作保证、可部署性、可审计性和控制、可靠性、适应性、弹性、有效性、可扩展性、自动化和自主性）。