The present invention provides a complete virtual multi-vendor EMS based
network that behaves identical to the network elements of the EMS
clients. A virtual network simulator is built that has the ability to
faithfully simulate the behavior of any vendor's EMS to represent the
data objects required by the TMF 814 specification. This allows automatic
provisioning and maintenance of the Operation Support Systems to fully
test new functionality against complete EMS based network without
depending upon the availability of any physical equipment, thereby
providing much quicker, low cost, extremely life-like testing
environment.