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network management

In telecommunications, network management is a service provider's control of the flow of communications traffic over its network.

In plain English

It means the provider directs and regulates how communications traffic moves across its own network. The key idea is control over the traffic's flow while it is on that network.

In context

Here, "network management" labels the policy section about the provider's control of how communications traffic flows over its network.

Situation
Choosing mobile plans, allowances, roaming, fair-use, and add-ons
What it communicates
labels the provider's traffic-handling section in the policy.

Meaning limits

By itself, the term does not say what specific controls are used or when they are applied.

Examples

“The complaint was about the provider's network management of calls and messages across its own network, not about faults in customers' handsets.”

Core meaning

“Under Network Management, the policy sets out how the provider handles traffic on its network.”

In context

  • traffic management Broader Term

    This sense is a kind of traffic management focused on communications traffic over a provider's network.

  • computer network administration Alternate Sense

    That reading is about operating network infrastructure, not about controlling the flow of communications traffic over a provider's network.