Summary form only given. The emerging ISO network management standards support a very general, elegant network management architecture that is easily adapted to the specifics of a particular distributed system, e.g. a network. Because this approach to network management is broadly applicable and will be supported by equipment and software systems available from a number of vendors, it seems likely that the telecommunications industry will simply adopt ISO standards where possible. A telecommunication management network based on ISO standards could soon be procured 'off the shelf' except for two components. One of these would be a system in the local area of the network element which translates (mediates) between the system-specific functions and data structures of a particular vendor and presents to the network and to the operations systems a general, ISO/OSI compliant, interface. The other would be set of applications in the operations systems and workstations that present an operator interface which is as uniform as is possible in a multivendor system.>

A series of experiments have been performed designed to confirm recently published calculations of the Fresnel corrected interfrequency correlation function of the time varying rough surface scatter channel. The experiments were performed in a physical model facility using a wind driven water surface. Preemphasized pulse probing was used to extract instantaneous transfer functions over a domain of 200 kHz-1.3 MHz. The results indicate good agreement with theory especially for large surface roughness and frequency domains higher than the cutoff of the coherent transfer function of the channel.