The Open OSS Initiative provides a new and complementary route to expedite the realization of NGOSS and other open standards relevant to the OSS industry.
The long term objectives of the Initiative are:
- Embrace the NGOSS approach to develop a sandbox of open source software freely available to the industry
- Provide feedback on implementation experience into the TMF standards activities
- Provide a vehicle for research to engage with realistic service provider problems
The intention is not to create carrier class open source software, but to exploit the open source development approach to stimulate collaboration between different organizations on a 'sandbox' of OSS components which can be used to experiment with realistic OSS implementation issues.
The first phase of the Initiative will provide a TMF Catalyst demonstration at TeleManagement World in Nice in May 2005. This TMW Catalyst demonstration implements a custom VoIP Service Assurance solution. The challenge is to keep the entire production cycle within 3 months using a combination of open source, COTS products and integration platforms.
The initial sandbox used in this demonstration will;
- Exploit Enterprise software (Application Servers, Portal Servers, Databases, etc.)
- Utilize OSS/J QoS and Trouble Ticket interfaces (http://www.ossj.org/downloads/api.shtml)
- Integrate open source OSS and COTS OSS components
- Deliver fully documented open source OSS components freely available for download
- Provide a simple demonstrator and use cases to show how the NGOSS lifecycle can be applied
Additionally, the Open OSS Catalyst project will provide the NGOSS/MDA Catalyst with a case-study to practically apply and realize NGOSS as a model driven approach.
Project Sponsors: BT Group Plc, COLT Telecom Group, Covad Communications, NTT Group, QinetiQ, University of South Hampton.
Participating Companies: Agilent Technologies, AutoMagic KB, Invocom Limited, Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation, Networking Technology Laboratory (BUTE), Sun Microsystems