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A Must See on your Management World Agenda
The TM Forum Catalyst program directly supports the TM Forum’s objectives to provide practical solutions to improve the management and operation of information and communication services. The program contributes to the growth and development of NGOSS framework and detailed specifications, by encouraging the wide availability of viable commercial off-the-shelf products using NGOSS principles.
It provides an environment where service providers can pose real-world challenges and directly influence the system integrators, hardware, software, and middleware providers to define, develop, and demonstrate solutions. Projects within the program are delivered in a very short timeframe, typically 6 to 9 months, and the results are presented at the Catalyst Showcases at Management World events.
Projects Showcasing at Management World 2008 in Nice:
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Building Marketplaces with Service Syndication - Championed by BT, Microsoft and Telefonica R&DCreating the marketplace for the next generation of services requires participation from Service Providers across all industries, owners of various resources that can be commercialized as valuable services for customers under various business models. To become powerful player in this market place each Service Provider must have the capability to rapidly assembly and re-assembly new services out of its resources which is possible in a framework that supports service lifecycle management such as TMF’s SDF. Companies involved include: Accenture, BT, CA, Iptivia, Microsoft, NetCracker, Telefonica and Tribold |
Delivering an Industry Information Infrastructure - Championed by Telecom Italia This proof of concept project will demonstrate how BSS, OSS, network element vendors and systems integrators can collaborate to enable service providers to reduce integration costs, improve time-to-market and improve communications across their own systems and organizations as well as with trading partners by adopting concepts of the TM Forum Information Framework (also known as SID).
Companies involved include: Cisco, SAP, SITA, Telecom Italia and Telcordia Technologies | | Delivering Device User Support - Championed by Orange Netherlands This catalyst project will address a user support process for digital lifestyle, digital home, home network, and consumer electronics appliances. This process is a new management applications area in the industry. The intent of this catalyst is to leverage the TM Forum to reach out to a range of companies in the industry - service providers, other device management software vendors, systems integrators, and device manufacturers - to work together to develop and demonstrate an industry standard approach. Companies involved include: Affinegy, Orange Netherlands, Peak8 Solutions, and Telcordia | | | The key purpose of the series of joint catalyst projects between TM Forum members and DMTF members is to demonstrate the co-existence and interoperability between SID, CIM and mTOP based management systems through realization of NGOSS contracts and using unified mapping methodology between different Information, Data Models and various interfaces in the context of the end-to-end management of next generation networks. This series will build to cover end-to-end management of Customer SLA. Companies involved include: Amdocs, BNM Inc., Harris Stratex, Huawei, Iona, Nortel, and Progress Software | | | One Stop Fixed Mobile Convergence Service - Championed by Chunghwa Telecom Lab and Telus Telecom
To provide customers with high value content, services and ever feel experiences with converged solutions, Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) and other worldwide partners declare their plan to deliver triple-play services to customers with Fixed-Mobile convergence technologies. In other words, Chunghwa will be able to roll out a wide variety of new and compelling services to subscribers in a cost-effective way. Companies involved include: Amdocs, Chunghwa Telecom Lab, Microsoft, NSN Taiwan, TATA Consulting Services (TCS), Tech Mahindra and Telus Telecom | | | Operator User Management - Championed by Telefonica and Vodafone D2 As TMF CO~OP tackles the question of how to integrate different management systems the question of easing the user login and preventing a decrease in security arises quickly. Companies involved include: Nokia Siemens Networks, Telefonica, Vodafone and Wipro | | | |
Following the first phase of the highly successful “Seamless OSS/BSS for IMS Services” which demonstrated how a variety of IMS services, accessed from many terminals, can create and deliver IMS services based on SDP, and how IMS product and services can be created, Phase II goes on to develop this work by: - Demonstrating a richer IMS services experience
- Covering the total solution of OSS/BSS for IMS services:
- From IMS services creation and delivery
- To IMS services management, subscribing and activation
- To IMS services billing and charging
Companies involved include: Amdocs, China Unicom, Microsoft Tata Consulting (TCS) and ZTE/ZTEsoft | | | Zero-Touch Deployment - Championed by Orange Netherlands The internal IT organization in Cisco (a large corporate enterprise stakeholder) is in the initial phase of deploying 115,000 fixed and mobile devices to the homes of 30,000 Cisco teleworking employees. They have innovated a technique for drastically reducing the total cost of ownership. The intent of this catalyst is to leverage this approach in the TM Forum to involve other companies in the industry - service providers, device manufacturers and their supply chains - to work together to develop and demonstrate an industry standard approach. Companies involved include: Cisco and Square Hoop |
End-to-End B/OSS Framework– Championed by BT Wholesale
The team will demonstrate a standardized BSS/OSS solution framework in the wholesale market for a business challenge that benefits both wholesale and reseller service providers. The team is exploring the introduction of retail/white labeled products/services for reseller’s customers from a wholesale communication network/service provider resulting in a reduced time-to-market and a faster realization of revenue for wholesale products.
Companies involved include: Ceon, Infosys Technologies Ltd., Progress Software and Subex | | | Content Encounter Phase II: Monetizing Services for the Digital Media Market - Championed by AT&T and BT
Content Encounter is the TM Forum’s Interactive Digital Media and Communications Village at Management World. It’s a hands-on demonstration that shows the critical elements necessary for monetizing digital media services plus a development environment for defining the vital enabling standards that support commercializing these types of services. Attendees get to see and interact with real services throughout the content lifecycle – from creation to consumption. In addition, attendees learn about and discuss the TM Forum’s best practices and standards that help define the ‘touch points’ between the systems and business processes of all the players in the extended value chain.
Companies involved include: Alcatel-Lucent, BEA, Cognizant, IBM, Microsoft, Motorola, and Subex | | | |