Abstract: Telephone number portability is provided by decoding a key of an original number dialed into a profile that indicates an operation to be performed on the number dialed. At least one profile that indicates a manner in which the original number dialed is to be affected by an operation to produce a ported telephone number corresponding to the original dialed number.

Abstract: Network management plans and runs optimized telecommunication and data networks and, more particularly, administers connection objects between adjacent network elements. Among a plurality of network elements there is determined a second network element adjacent to a first based on an operator input. The data associated with the first network element is then automatically transposed for the second network element such that the representation of a connection object between the first and second network elements is made commensurate to the representation for the first network element. An advantage thereof is that the connection object is managed for the network elements without the risk of wrong or inconsistent input which would prevent implausible data such as routing data to be entered.