About the Author Lakshmi G. Raman is senior director and principal for broadband operations in Professional Services at Bellcore. In this role, she provides consulting to existing Bellcore clients and works with marketing and sales organizations in identifying and defining new opportunities. From 1995-1998, she was the Director of System Engineering in the Broadband Division of ADC Telecommunications which develops access platforms using HFC architecture. Since 1986 she has chaired, served as editor, and contributed to standards that form the foundation for the topics discussed in this volume. Dr. Raman is currently chair of a Working Party in ITU SG 4 and TIMI.5 Management Services subworking group, which has the charter to develop information models for TMN interfaces. She also serves as an area editor for Network Management in the IEEE Communications Society. Dr. Raman contributed a chapter on Information Modeling to Telecommunications Network Management (IEEE Press, 1998) plus a chapter on OSI Systems Management for Fundamentals of Network Management (forthcoming from Plenum Press).