As commercial operators face increasing pressure to deliver more advanced services in a constrained spectrum environment, they face some of the same challenges as the defense community. The use cases in this document are intended to highlight the situations in which commercial operators must factor spectrum constraints to an increasing degree. The objective is to identify common processes employed by the commercial service provider (CSP) community to ensure that the TM Forum Business Process Framework adequately captures the requisite processes across the board. It should be noted that spectrum is one of many challenges facing the CSP. The impact of backhaul architecture on service delivery is an equally critical aspect of network operations; however, for the purposes of this report, backhaul is not being considered as a constraint.

This report is organized around six use cases in which spectrum management processes play key roles. Each use case is presented as a process flow, leveraging existing processes from the eTOM, down to Level 3. The intent is not to capture the entirety of the complex process flow for each use case, but rather to capture those processes in the flow in which spectrum management plays a key role. In addition, each use case is supported by a process flow diagram overlaid on the eTOM graphic. Actors listed for each use case are derived from the eTOM vertical end-end process groupings, based on the expectation that process functionality for spectrum is implemented in systems that align with these process groupings.

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