Enabling the future of service delivery...
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. There are enormous business benefits to being able to separate the business logic from the massive technical complexity at the network level. One of the greatest challenges to being able to achieve this abstraction at the operations systems (OS) level has been the requirement to communicate and manage many different sets of vendor technologies. The main inhibitor to overcoming this challenge has been the lack of standards supporting both the interface from an OS to an EMS and also that between OSs. Building upon the successful Multi Technology Network Management (MTNM) CORBA/IDL interface, the MTOSI team has extended its work to support XML/Web Service interactions between various types of Operations Systems. MTOSI bridged this gap by defining a methodology and a framework to map the domain specific business activities into well defined NGOSS contracts according to the Service Oriented Architecture principles.
The greatest overall benefit of the MTOSI standard is one management interface with a common information model that supports all transport technologies. This means fewer interfaces to develop, integrate, deploy and maintain. The interface adheres to NGOSS principles such as the separation of business concerns from the Message Exchange Patterns (MEPs). With MTOSI, the underlying support can be changed without changing the business interactions.
Sponsors: British Telecom, Cable & Wireless, TeliaSonera
Participants: CEON, Cisco Systems, Cramer Systems Limited, Huawei Technologies, IONA, Lucent Technologies, Nortel Networks, Pantero, Sonic Software, Telcordia Technologies, TTI Telecom