The Clear Choice For OSS Integration
Do you need to expedite time to market with convergent service bundles that build customer loyalty and reduce churn?
Do you need to flexibly accommodate market changes and customer preferences?
To address these key business issues, the TM Forum is unifying all of its interface development efforts under the auspices of the TM Forum Interface Program.
Already powerful in their own right, OSS/J, MTOP, IPDR and CO-OP will now leverage each other’s development resources in order to foster inter-working and re-use in accordance with TM Forum’s New Generation OSS (NGOSS) principles. |
| About the Program |
| The TM Forum Interface Program now includes the interfaces that glue together MTOSI (network and service management from transport); MTNM (the interfaces that model the management of multi-technology networks); OSS/J (the multi-technology APIs that deliver on NGOSS design guidelines for component-based OSS systems); IPDR (the interfaces used for usage data management and accounting); and CO-OP (an initiative to promote unified standards for element management and user management).
A single roadmap is possible now that these critical elements come together to in a common architectural framework. This empowers service providers with the “freedom to choose” the OSSs they want based on prices, quality and functionality. That mitigates, or even eliminates, the “integration tax” that has proved so costly through expensive OSS integration projects.
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Click here to read A Brief History of the Interface Program |
| How it Works |
| The TM Forum Interface Program is organized into several teams who will take interface standards forward. There are two categories of teams – coordination teams and working teams.
Working teams are Feature Design teams, Interface Integration and Delivery teams, Framework teams and Product Delivery Teams and have responsibility for producing the technical deliverables.
- Within the TM Forum Interface Program, service providers, vendors, systems integrators, and content owners will create and extend APIs and design guidelines with the goal to create an interface framework built around a common roadmap.
- Members share complementary elements among the interface programs, the technology and service-specific domain models evolve to optimize resource management and the use of shared information models.
- As the individual interfaces are completed in the Interface Program, they will be available for real-world integrations. Once an interface is market-proven, and meets exacting criteria for certification, then it will be offered through the Prosspero portal.
Current studies or requirements for studies currently being addressed by TM Forum Interface Program participants:
- IP management, with a focus on VOIP
- MPLS management
- IPTV management
- Provider Backbone Bridge (PBB) traffic engineering
- Connection/connectionless convergence
- Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON)
- Subscription Management
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| Industry Benefits |
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| Interface Program News |
MTOSI2.0 released for Member and Public review
MTOSI Release 2.0 is the latest version of the MTOSI solution, and it is now ready for review by TM Forum Members and other participants in the telecommunications industry. MTOSI R.2.0 greatly extends the coverage of previous releases to include more management functionality into new areas such as resource trouble and performance management, and service activation and inventory.
Read the MTOSI2.0 Announcement document.
Download a review copy of MTOSI2.0 here.
John Wilmes writes about the Interface Program in Pipeline:
Read John's article which overviews the TMForum Interface Program and its relationship to the NGOSS Framework here.
Nokia Siemens Networks' OES FM v1.2 now an OSS/J Certified Product
OES FM v1.2 by Nokia Siemens Networks has been certified as an OSS/J Certified Product.
OES FM is part of Nokia Siemens Networks’ (NSN) Open EMS Suite (OES). It provides the fault management services for OSS/J based client applications and seamless integration with Fault Management (FM) functionality provided by OES FM platform. |
| Who's Involved |
The TM Forum Interface Program boasts many ‘Champions’:
"Vodafone has fostered consistency in the way it offers SLAs to its customers thanks to B2B interfaces that connect the company with its internal and external suppliers and partners. Critical to its success has been TM Forum Interface Program standards, which form an important technical foundation for off-the-shelf functionality and products."
Joerg Frankenberger, Vodafone Group
"BT is in the process of aligning the OSS management capabilities of our 21CN next generation network using the innovative work of the TM Forum Interface Program."
Steve Orobec, BT
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| Service Provider Benefits |
- Lower Integration Costs - interface specifications allow for an open, multi-supplier environment, shorten delivery times and lower integration costs.
- De-risk service delivery by eliminating proprietary interfaces.
- Migration path – TM Forum interfaces are not bound to any one middleware, transport or computing language.
- Extensive Coverage - integrated, multi-technology interfaces with support for most key layer 1 and layer 2 transport technologies and evolution to layer 3 (IP) is in progress.
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| Vendor and Systems Integrator Benefits |
- Reduce Integration Risks – delivery your solutions quicker through streamlined requirements capture and technical integration using well-supported TM Forum interfaces.
- Fewer Adapters – lower costs by reducing the requirement for maintaining customized integrations with the proprietary interfaces of third-party products.
- Lower Training Cost – as designers, system engineers, developers and testers are using the same interfaces over and over again.
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For more information contact tip-info@tmforum.org |
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