Service Level Management for Enterprise Networks (Artech House Telecommunications Library) - Hardcover

After Service Level Agreements (SLA) have been made between IT providers and consumers, expectations and services to be rendered vary widely and standardization is often fragmented. This examination of IT Service Management provides a framework for implementing and evaluating Service Level Agreements and helps the reader avoid common pitfalls. It seeks to deliver new methodology and techniques to improve SLAs, through discussion of SLM processes and architecture, but it also serves as a baseline against which to measure existing and future SLM programmes. The book examines research challenges, using real-world case studies, and discussing current tools and applications.

Lundy Lewis is Director of Advanced Research at Cabletron Systems in Merrimack, New Hampshire, where he designs and develops commercial products for the networking community. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Renssalear Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Georgia and is a member of AAAI, IEEE, and ACM.