The Service Performance ABE collects, correlates, consolidates, and validates various performance statistics and other operational characteristics of customer and resource facing service entities. It provides a set of entities that can monitor and report on performance. Each of these entities also conducts network performance assessment against planned goals, performs various aspects of trend analysis, including error rate and cause analysis and Service degradation.<br/><br/>Entities in this ABE also manage the traffic generated by a Service, as well as traffic trend analysis. This is important for newer technologies that separate data, control and management functions for a given Service.<br/>