The Network Engineer commissions the Controllers with a hostname, DNS information, and an IP address or address acquisition mechanism such as DHCP. The Network Engineer may apply firmware or software updates if needed.
The Network Engineer then rolls out the network configuration as required for the site using vendor-independent mechanisms and tools, such as a Network Provisioning Entity, as shown in Figure 6. The network configuration contains, amongst others, VLAN usage, the configuration of time synchronisation, and the configuration of QoS (see 6.3).
