Secure, Federated Service Level Management—Phase II Rapid Communications Deployment to Support Multi-National Preparedness in Crisis Situations
This second installation of Federated SLA Catalyst project uses crisis situations, such as the Haitian Earthquake response effort, to demonstrate rapid establishment of communication services across a multi-national coalition focusing on the agile and rapid build out of the end-to-end information and communication technologies (ICT) service chain and security.
This multi-vendor technology demonstrator drew inspiration from the Haitian Earthquake response effort to demonstrate the need to rapidly establish communication services across a multi-national coalition and the team will tackle concepts such as dynamic discovery of services and creation of complex service value chains based on discovered elementary national contributions; secured information exchange across the coalition partners on a multi-lateral basis, and automated end-to-end service management.
Primary stakeholders for this work include Defense agencies federating service assurance across a coalition environment, Value Chain Service Providers, and Cloud buyers. | | |
Business Proposition
| This Phase I multi-vendor technology demonstrator drew inspiration from the Haitian Earthquake response effort to demonstrate the need to rapidly establish communication services across a multi-national coalition and the team will tackle concepts such as dynamic discovery of services and creation of complex service value chains based on discovered elementary national contributions; secure Service Level Management information exchange across the coalition partners on a multi-lateral basis, and automated end-to-end service management.
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Key Deliverables
| Agile and Rapid build out of end-to-end ICT
- Reduced service delivery lifecycle (mission planning functions/interfaces between partners)
- Dynamic discovery of services
- Application of automated policy
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Security Framework
- Secured messaging between coalition partners (across the entire service lifecycle)
- Identity Management with distributed access rights
- Secured services
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| Team Member Contributions
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NATO C3 Agency (NC3A) and the UK MOD Defense Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) are co-championing this work effort. Their primary aim is to use the TM Forum’s Catalyst vehicle to research standards, techniques and products that could enable the sharing of Service Level Management (SLM) information amongst their partners in a secured, automated way.
Participants
Infonova and Layer 7 Technologies have joined forces to deliver the end-to-end functionality demonstrated. Infonova’s R6, their flagship Industry 2.0 Service Orchestration Platform ( multi-tenant) , provides capabilities for service configuration and publishing into the shared Service Directory, order entry and orchestration plus ticket / notification management. Layer 7 Technologies’ SecureSpan Gateway provides secured messaging, threat protection, authentication, trust management and auditing to the project.
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About the Scenario
| In this type of scenario, a quick response force would arrive on the scene, a command structure would be established, and there would be little or no communications infrastructure available. Execution of the mission plan requires a well coordinate response effort – making certain that the right resources are available at the right time in the right location – all of which is dependent on the rapid establishment of telecommunications services.
 Bandwidth is often constrained in a military environment, and when problems arise – a well coordinate response ensures minimal mission impact. A flexible architecture, which applies configurable policy and cross domain communication, makes managing services across a federation much more efficient. |
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![[Open Quote]](/sdata/content/icons/quote_open.png) Current military operations require close co-operation between coalition partners in order to smoothly and rapidly establish complex end-to-end ICT services spanning through heterogeneous national sub-networks. Once services are delivered it is equally important to build very close Service Level Management relationship amongst the involved service operators (military or commercial) to maintain high-level service quality.
Without standardised management solutions and interfaces it would not be possible to achieve these goals. Therefore the NATO C3 Agency is strongly supporting this TMF DIG Catalyst and pleased to work with industry on proving and maturing the federated service management concept that Nations shall be able to reuse.
![[Close Quote]](/sdata/content/icons/quote_closed.png) | | – Mr. Tamas Halmai, Principal Scientist NATO C3 Agency |
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