TM Forum - Las Vegas 2001

Fine Grain is part of a general convergence movement of network technology and information technology aimed at distributing the intelligence of the network among all the component parts of the network.

Integration Framework II (IF II) Catalyst

The purpose of this Catalyst project was to take the current Integration Framework and extend it to provide both security policies and to extend the management and handling of Framework and Business Service contracts. In addition, this project proved the flexibility and ease of integration by using real COTS business applications.

NGOSS for Enabling End-to-End IP Services (NE3IS)

All Carriers are moving towards packet-based networks for two reasons: first, packet networks provide lower cost transport than traditional circuit-based networks. Second, packet networks can deliver enhanced services that are either not available to date or too expensive through circuit networks.

Optical Gigabit Ethernet Management (OGEM)

The ‘Revenue Rich Services Management Catalyst’. Ethernet is undisputedly the most ubiquitous LAN technology deployed in the world. It is now vying to be king in metropolitan networks. What are the new and exciting services that can be created as Ethernet get deployed in Metro Networks? What challenges does it present to OSS implementations? ONI Systems,

Service Level Management for IP Wireless (SLM)

The catalyst project "Service Level Management for Wireless IP" will demonstrate a shared service level management (SLM) model within GPRS based services that allow access to web content sites supporting video based services. The project will show how combined services of IP networks with 2.5/3G wireless services work in an "NGOSS powered" way. NGOSS compliance