Network management system architecture of a telecommunications network

A system comprising:

• a communication module configured to receive network element data from at least one network management system over respective channels, each of the at least one network management system being associated with a corresponding telecommunications network that has at least one network element that reports parameter samples to the corresponding network management system, the network element data for each of the at least one network management system includes at least a processed version of the reported parameter samples reported to that corresponding network management system;
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• a processing module configured to process of least some of the received network element data.

A computer program product comprising one or more computer-readable storage media having thereon computer-executable instructions that are structured such that, when executed by one or more processors of a computing system, cause the computing system to perform a method for processing network management data in an external system that is outside of a network management system, the method comprising:

• an act of processing network element data received from a network management system, the network element data being parameter samples taken from one or more network elements that are within a telecommunications network that reports to the network management system.