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mTOP-MTOSI

Gaining Control of a Multi-Everything Network

Bringing together multiple technologies, multiple vendors and multiple systems to deliver seamless customer services

mTOP-MTOSI Overview

Service Providers must deliver new services and products more effectively – faster and cheaper – than ever before in an environment that requires inter-working between many different Vendors, Technologies, and Systems.

MTOSI, the Multi-Technology Operations System Interface, is a single standard that provides the “glue” to connect these components together.

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mTOP-MTOSI Team Activities

Multi-Technology Operations System Interface (MTOSI)
The TM Forum MTOSI effort has the goal of defining a unified open interface to be used between Operations Systems (OSs) for the purpose of network and service management. The goal is to cover all technologies from layer 1 (e.g., SONET/SDH) to high layer technologies such as VoIP. Given the success and popularity of the TM Forum Multi-Technology Network Management (MTNM) effort, the MTOSI team has decided to base their work on the MTNM model. The MTNM model is intended for the NMS-EMS interface and the focus is on network resource management.

mTOP-MTOSI Documents

This MTOSI XML Solution Set (TMF 854) is one of the three major deliverables of MTOSI Release 1.1. The other two major deliverables are the MTOSI Business Agreement (TMF517) and the MTNM Information Agreement (TMF608).

MTOSI (Multi-Technology Operations System Interface) is a set of open and flexible interfaces created to tackle the technical complexity and duplication of effort involved in Operations Systems (OSs) interconnection in increasingly heterogeneous service provider networks by defining a set of flexible and open interfaces.

MTOSI is designed for mature and stabilizing technologies where the service provider’s emphasis is on controlling the deployment costs of increasingly commoditized services. So MTOSI is an ‘out of the box' solution to glue together network and service management from transport ( e.g....
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mTOP-MTOSI Catalyst

The MTOSI Catalyst demonstrates how the MTOSI Standard is used in different ways to:

* Benefit different types of Stakeholders

* Implement realistic end-to-end provisioning and assurance scenarios

MTOSI: Any Network - One Interface
Multi-Technology Operations Systems Interface (MTOSI) catalyst intends to show a possible solution to the business problem of a service provider looking to integrate selected OSS products from multiple vendors in a timely manner, without having to hammer-out pair-wise agreements between the various suppliers and without getting unnecessarily locked into any of the suppliers. Sponsors BT, Cable & Wireless, TeliaSonera; Participants: CEON, Cisco Systems, Cramer Systems Limited, Huawei Technologies, IONA, Lucent Technologies, Nortel, Pantero, Sonic Software, Telcordia Technologies, TTI Telecom

mTOP-MTOSI White Papers

Multi-Technology Operations Systems Interface (MTOSI) Business Case
This paper provides a brief overview of the TeleManagement Forum (TM Forum) Multi-Technology Operations Systems Interface (MTOSI) work concerning an XML-based interface for use among Operations Support Systems (OSSs).