Transforming

Telecommunications

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OSS/J: Who we are

… and many industry experts and adopters

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OSS/J Service Provider
Advisory Council
Leading service providers are
actively shaping the strategic
direction of OSS/J:

z Setting priorities

z Providing guidance

z Creating demand

z Building an economic model

z Expanding liaisons

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 What Drives Us

Operational Efficiency & Network Utilization

Customer Satisfaction

Business Process Automation

Reduce time to market for New Services

Global Information Availability

Enhanced Business Agility

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Overcoming the Integration Nightmare

Customer Customer
Facing Contact Center Customer Billing Service
Database System Inventory
Service
Order Entry
Provisioning

SLA Trouble Workforce

Network Network Thresholds Ticketing Management
Facing Inventory Performance Events Collection
Management Filtering Correlation

Multi-
Vendor
Network

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Business Impact of the Nightmare

Lack of Efficiency, Responsiveness

z OSS is not real-time Software
Costs 9%

z Business processes are

locked in code

z Company at risk from more

agile competitors

z Unable to realize new Hidden

business opportunities Costs
91%
Source: Forrester

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 Integration Iceberg

Software Licenses 9% $250K

Customization
Customization &
&
Implementation
Implementation 43% $1,194K

Hardware
Hardware 26% $722K

IT
IT Personnel
Personnel 14% $389K
$2.8M

Maintenance
Maintenance 7% $194K

Training
Training 1% $28K

Hidden Costs
Source: Forrester

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 The Nightmare Causes…

• Inefficient and Costly Operations

• Integration costs can be prohibitively high
• OSS benefits are not seen

• Extended Time-to-Market for:

• New Service Offerings
• New Market Entry

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Something Has to Change…

• Need to reduce the cost of OSS

integration through
• Standardization
• Consistent approach
• Data integrity
• Automation

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 Ending the Nightmare

OSS/J industry-wide collaboration in a pre-

competitive environment to:

z Provide the technology to support next

generation OSS networks
z Reduce integration costs across the
value chain
z Foster a market of interoperable and
interchangeable OSS components

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 OSS/J Deliverables

J2EE, XML and Web Services

OSS Design Patterns and APIs Certification

Service Trouble
Billing QoS Inventory …..
open and free
Activation Ticket
technically strict
easy process

OSS Best Practices OSS Solution Patterns

integration useful scenarios
deployment across domains and applications
B2B reference architectures

All OSS/J deliverables All OSS/J deliverables

are verified with real are free of charge on
products and solutions http://www.ossj.org

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 API Roadmap
Service Activation Inventory:
Product Discovery:
Product Activation Service Service
Resource Activation Resource Resource Testing

Fulfilment

Customer Management Order Mgmt Customer SLA Management

Assurance

Trouble Ticketing QoS: Service Quality Mgmt

Fault Monitoring
Performance Monitoring Service Problem Resolution
Usage Monitoring
Pricing
IP Billing: Billing & Invoicing:
Billing Mediation Billing Process Quality Mgmt

Billing
Available Next Priority
Public review Future Work
Java Community
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 OSS/J Certified Products
& Pre-products
z Digital Fuel, ServiceFlow 3.0 QoS (Performance Mgmt)
z Elsag, ClarityControl 1.5 Billing Mediation
z Highdeal, Transactive 3.0 Billing Mediation
z ILOG, JTGO QoS
z Intracom, ActionStreamer Service Activation
z IPWorth Khubera V1.1 Billing Mediation
z IP Value, premioss-inv 1.0 Inventory
z IP Value, premioss-gos-fm 1.1 QoS (Fault Mgmt)
z IP Value, premioss-gos-pm 1.0 QoS (Performance Mgmt)
z IP Value, premioss-sp Service Activation
z IP Value, premioss-tt 1.0 Trouble Ticket
z MetaSolv, ASAP 4.6 Service Activation
z MetaSolv, OMS 2.5 Service Activation
z Nokia, NetAct Service Activation, QoS, Trouble Ticket
z Nokia, Nokia Profile Manager 2.0 Inventory, Service Activation
z Redrock Communications, ProActiv 4.2 Service Activation
z Siemens, TNMS Root Cause Analyser 2.0 Trouble Ticket
z TTI-Telecom, Netrac 8.3 and 8.4 Service Activation
z Vallent, Prospect QoS (Performance Mgmt)
z Vertel, M*Ware Ticket Exchange Trouble Ticket
z …
… and growing
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 Process Choice: JCP
design my product

Specification

Can you build an Is specification

implementation? unambiguous?

Reference Technology
Is TCK correct?
Implementation Is RI conformant? Compatibility Kit

build my product test my product

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OSS/J Design Patterns

Foundation for OSS functional APIs

OSS Common Session Beans Façade Pattern

Value Object Pattern
Design Guidelines XML to Java Value Object
Iterators for Bulk Data Transfer

OSS Common API Template-based Queries

Generic Named Queries
Bulk Operations with Best Effort
and Atomic Semantics
Core Business Entities Meta-Data Capabilities and Factories

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 OSS Best Practices

API Extensions Integration Strategies

z Domain z Product Wrapping Legacy OSS
Billing Component
z Vendor For Cable z CORBA, EAI, … J2EE
Connector

Billing OSS/J
API

By Vendor Component
For Cable
API

CORBA

Deployment Strategies
z Scalability B2B Scenarios
z Security z SP 2 SP
z Manageability z SP 2 SD
Logic

Data

Events

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 OSS Solution Patterns

Applications

1 2 3 4

and Domains
8 7 6 5

Business Scenarios
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Liaisons with Standards

Don’t re-invent
the wheel

Pull Push

Focus on creating
implementable
interfaces
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Open Source Community
z Lists of components at http://ossj.org
z Projects at http://sbm-ossj.dev.java.net
First Published:
Modelling & Development Tools

Business Process
Presentation
Management
z COVAD:

Security & Identity

TT adapter to CMIP
OSS/J APIS Rules z MBT:
Persistent
& &
Storage
Certified Products Policy
CBE extension
for MTNM
z Sun:
OSS/J Adapters
OSS/J Presentation layer
Extensions
for OpenOSS

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TeleManagement Forum (TMF) NGOSS

NGOSS = Next Generation OSS

for Next Generation (IP) Networks
Customers
Processes (eTOM)

Info Models (SID)

Architecture Principles

“OSS/J is a proven
Source: TeleManagement Forum, eTOM
implementation of NGOSS
that can be used and
repeated.” – Martin Creaner,
Network and Services
TM Forum CTO

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 Architecture

Legacy Legacy
Application Application
EAI Connector

J2EE JMS Bridge

Connector
Application
Java over JMS/IIOP/RMI API
XML over JMS B2B
Web
Java Any J2EE Compliant XML Services
API
Application Server API enabled
Application
Java over JMS/IIOP/RMI XML over JMS
API
Connector

ebXML
Native SOAP
Implementation UDDI
Wrapping and WSDL
Adapters Strategies

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Technology Choices

J2EE™, XML and Web Services

Tightly
Tightly Loosely
Loosely B2B
B2B
Coupled
Coupled Coupled
Coupled Integration
Integration
Integration
Integration Integration
Integration

Java
Java EJB
EJB XML
XML XML
XML
RMI IIOP
RMI IIOP JMS
JMS Web Services
Web Services

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 Value Creation

Leverage mainstream enterprise technology

Adopt pragmatic standards and proven practices

Network Independent Services and

System Service
Equipment Software Content
Integrators Providers
Providers Vendors Creators

Platform and Middleware Vendors

Create agile solutions for next-generation OSS/BSS

Improve market conditions along the value chain

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 OSS/J Affiliate Program
OSS/J Affiliates help you create informed business
strategies and identify the right technology components
in these critical areas:

z Consulting Services
¾ OSS/J approved companies providing services for:
— Business analysis & strategic OSS/J initiatives
— Architecture design & engineering based on OSS/J
Design Guidelines and APIs
z Integration Services
¾ OSS/J approved companies providing services to
implement & integrate OSS/J-based systems
z Training Services
¾ OSS/J approved companies providing OSS/J
training
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OSS through Java is …

… crucial for the long-term

survival of all CSPs …
IDC
… the best near-term prospect
the communications industry
has at setting standards …
Yankee Group

… the battle for standards is over. J2EE and

OSS/J are the clear winners…
Dittberner & Associates

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 Thank You!
Questions?
http://www.ossj.org

info@ossj.org

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