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chapter. CORBA provides a standardized way for the NMS to access data
objects managed by each EMS, and a way for the equipment vendors or EMS
authors to publish a database format for the NMS to access--these formats can
become standardized, making the job even simpler.
The EMS is now free to manage the devices themselves. Each equipment
vendor may take a different approach to the management of its devices, as
described in the previous section, but it is increasingly popular to use one of
a small set of standardized protocols and data