TeleManagement World Hosts Catalyst Showcase

At TeleManagement World, the TeleManagement Forum (TM Forum) is presenting the Catalyst Showcase to demonstrate practical OSS/BSS solutions from multicompany and multinational teams, which collaborate to address urgent, real-world business, operational and interoperability issues with automated solutions using off-the-shelf products.

Catalyst projects are staffed by TM Forum members who design, build and demonstrate platforms in compressed time frames, enabled by their use of the TM Forum's New Generation Operation Systems and Software (NGOSS) standards and guidelines.

This year’s showcase features nearly twice the number of projects as last year’s U.S. event with almost 50 companies, including 13 service providers, participating, says TeleManagement World. Show organizers say the growth reflects the upturn in market conditions as well as the rising importance of creating agile OSS/BSS solutions.

The Catalyst projects reflect TeleManagement World's overall thrust through the theme of “demonstrating innovation” with the use of NGOSS and other TM Forum standards to drive progress.  The TM Forum Catalyst projects for TeleManagement World 2005 in Dallas include:

• Sarbanes-Oxley compliance through NGOSS
• Managing IPTV Services With NGOSS
• Consumer VoIP Automated Provisioning
• NGOSS Service Enablement
• MTOSI Any Network – One Interface
• Business Process Management – Phase 3
• Implementing Contracts-Based Services in NGN (ICON) Phase 1

At Booth CS-1, Convergys, Casewise, cVidya, Ernst and Young, and Subex Systems will demonstrate Sarbanes-Oxley compliance through NGOSS. The group’s sponsors are Internap Network Services, Mobile TeleSystems and TeleManagement Forum. The SOX Catalyst will demonstrate how NGOSS standards can be used to structure and simplify efforts to deliver SOX compliance, lowering the cost, or “SOX Tax,” associated with compliance.

The companies will show how the SOX Catalyst lets NGOSS be mapped to SOX to facilitate compliance with SOX requirements; demonstrate the use of NGOSS constructs, specifically the eTOM and SID models, in an application that uses NGOSS to implement compliance through routine, automated business processes; and document the NGOSS enhancements that will be required to fully leverage NGOSS to enable SOX compliance

At Booth CS-5, Broadhop, Cisco Systems, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Digital Fairway, Fujitsu, Intec Telecom Systems, Spirent and Telcordia Technologies all will focus on the management of IP services, honing in on automated consumer service enablement for voice, video and data over IP residential access via DSL. The project – sponsored by BT and IPDR.org – will demonstrate the use of effective network management to help service providers increase customer loyalty, while decreasing operational expenses and improving revenue.

The showcase also will address issues surrounding automated provisioning of end-user equipment, end-user-initiated service enhancement and control, and unified provisioning in the IP communications area, including VoIP, broadcast video and video on demand.

Over at Booth CS-4, attendees can listen to BEA Systems, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Juniper Networks, MetaSolv Software, Pantero and Sun Microsystems as the companies talk about their process for giving service provider customers VoIP products, especially consumer VoIP. Sponsored by BellSouth and EMBRATEL (Empresa Brasileira de Telecomunicacoes), the demonstration will show why the core eTOM processes are service configuration and activation, and resource provisioning. The key input to this process is a service request for VoIP service, which includes data such as customer, service address, product and telephone number.

The project is modeled on what residential customers can order via the Internet.

At Booth CS-3, Amdocs, IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp. and Pantero will demonstrate NGOSS Web service enablement. The project defines a Web service-based, SOA implementation profile for NGOSS and will demonstrate the concept with a technology-specific implementation of NGOSS technology-neutral architecture principles using Web services. The event is sponsored by BT, Korea Telecom and QinetiQ.

Meanwhile, at Booths CS-7 and CS-8, Ceon, Cisco Systems, Cramer Systems Limited, Huawei Technologies, IONA, Lucent Technologies, Nortel, Pantero, Sonic Software, Telcordia Technologies, TTI Telecom will discuss how the Multi-Technology Operations Systems Interface (MTOSI) helps service providers looking to integrate OSS products from multiple vendors by using XML-based industry standard interfaces without having to hammer out pair-wise agreements among the various suppliers.

The technology to build the platform is based on the TM Forum’s MTOSI XML/Web Services-based standards for element management system-to-network management system and operations system-to-operations system integration.

The demonstration is sponsored by BT, Cable & Wireless and TeliaSonera.

Attendees wanting to learn more about business process management should stop by Booth CS-2, where Mahindra British Telecom, Amdocs, ILOG and Teleca Sweden South will talk about the third phase of this project. The discussion is sponsored by COLT Telecom Plc, Fundacao CPqD, Qinetiq, SBC Communications, Vodafone D2 and Bell Canada. Business Process Management (BPM) solutions involve the management of business processes across the entire enterprise. While the enhanced Telecoms Operations Map (eTOM) framework is the starting point to implement business processes, BPM provides the ability to manage changes to these business processes over time.

Phase 3 of the Catalyst project will address two areas: how to manage end-to-end processes for mobile multimedia service management and how to manage business processes related to network surveillance and alarm resolution management.

Finally, Ceon, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Pantero and WebMethods, at Booth CS-6, will demonstrate the convergence of NGOSS contracts, NGN OSS service interfaces and 3GPP Integration Reference Points (IRPs). France Telecom is sponsoring the event. The demonstration will focus on implementing NGOSS contracts in a next-generation network, comparing and contrasting 3GPP IRPs. This will be done with an ordering and service activation scenario in an NGN providing VoIP services.

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