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Telecom Applications Map (TAM)

Also referred to as Applications Framework, the Telecom Application Map considers the role and the functionality of the various applications that deliver OSS and BSS capability.
Structured along similar lines to NGOSS artifacts: the process framework – the eTOM and the information framework – the SID, it is presented in a similar layered and vertical structure.
Having identified the major applications and begun the decomposition of the functionality, in Revisions 1 and 2.1, work is ongoing to develop the framework to “practical” level of decomposition across the entire framework.

TAM Team Activities

Information on the Application Map Team

Telecom Applications Map Project
This project will produce a document describing the business requirements of a Telecom Applications Map (TAM), its use, and the relationship between the TAM, the eTOM, the SID, the Procurements document, and any other TMF related document

TAM Team Documents

Documents from the Applications Map Team

GB929 Telecom Applications Map Guidebook Release 2.1
This document provides the global telecom software industry with a frame of reference to understand the relationship of the multitude of operational systems typically found within a service provider operations

GB929 Telecom Applications Map, the BSS/OSS Systems Landscape Release 2.0
This document provides the global telecom software industry with a frame of reference to understand the relationship of the multitude of operational systems typically found within a service provider or network operator. It is intended to be a practical, everyday working guide for those organizations who buy or sell operational systems to help position and navigate a complex landscape. It is not intended to be prescriptive so that operators are required to implement this approach. However it does provide a ‘lens’ to use to compare their current implementations with an idealized approach. The document can also be used by suppliers to help posit

Telecom Applications Map - GB929 Release 1.0
This document provides the global telecom software industry with a frame of reference to understand the relationship of the multitude of operational systems typically found within a service provider or network operator. It is intended to be a practical, everyday working guide for those organizations who buy or sell operational systems to help position and navigate a complex landscape. It is not intended to be prescriptive so that operators are required to implement this approach.