With Service Delivery Platforms now supplied by most leading vendors the need to harmonise standards within this growing market is important to allow for Service Providers to have interoperability and for vendors to create open interfaces.

The Summit has speakers from major vendors including IBM, HP, Alcatel-Lucent and Telcordia Technologies who are incorporating these new standards into their SDP platform developments as well as Service Providers Qwest and Telecom Italia.

For further details on the Summit go to www.tmforum.org/ServiceDeliveryPlatforms

About the TM Forum

With almost 700 member companies in 72 countries, the TM Forum is the world’s leading trade consortium focused on enabling digital services. Serving the information, communications and entertainment industries, the Forum provides leadership, strategic guidance and practical solutions to improve the way that services are created, delivered and charged. Members include the majority of the world’s service providers, network operators, software suppliers, equipment suppliers and systems integrators.

The Forum currently facilitates over 80 technical projects and provides extensive training, conferencing and information services to its members. Through its initiatives to help providers move to low cost, high quality ‘lean’ processes, the Forum helps its members automate business processes and work seamlessly across various parts of the service delivery chain. The organization provides industry benchmarks, guidebooks, process and software frameworks and downloadable software standards. These give service providers the direction and specific roadmaps to achieve much greater business efficiency and operational flexibility.

For further information regarding the TM Forum, related programs such as the Prosspero initiative and its Management World conferences, please visit www.tmforum.org