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Standardized Interfaces

One of the most important parts of the Integration Framework is a set of standard interfaces that enable rapid, repeatable, and flexible integration among operations and management systems.

Descriptions of TM Forum standardized interfaces can be found here.

Each of these interfaces can be downloaded from the Download Center


6 Things You Can Do With Standardized Interfaces

  • Reduce full lifecycle costs of networks and services through use of well documented, consistent interfaces
  • Integrate management systems with each other while minimizing cost and risk
  • Reduce cycle time for putting new network equipment in service with shorter management system integration and test cycles
  • Reduce cycle time for getting new services to market with repeatable management systems integration
  • Reduce development costs for adding new management capabilities with developer kits and reusable designs and code
  • Easily share management information across departments, subsidiaries or with partners 

 

New Interfaces

TM Forum has a growing set of interfaces that are designed to manage converged networks. These interfaces incorporate the best components of TM Forum’s widely adopted Interface Suites (OSS/J and MTOSI), as well as input from 3GPP, and are being built to become TM Forum’s single API family to manage networks and services in the converged environment.

The current list of new interfaces includes:

 

Simple Management API

In the age of the digital economy, services are typically delivered through a sophisticated partnering of multiple providers who are all using different systems and interfaces. TM Forum has developed an API that will expose provisioning, health and event information for a service independently of the platforms, networks or other resource specific technologies being utilized to support it. The Simple Management API will allow simple and coherent management of any given service and provide developers key design patterns for service management including resource provisioning, fulfillment, health state, charging, and service retirement.  Visit the new developer environment for this API.
  
 

Interface Suites

TM Forum maintains four additional interface suites. These interfaces have been used across the communications industry for many years and are widely deployed. Each of these interface packages has unique properties. Click on each to read more.