Released: Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Several Communication Service Providers (CSPs) operate in more than one country, and need to optimize operations across all locations. To this end, CSPs have taken up initiatives such as data center consolidation, centralized procurement, and centralization of IT networks.
This paper explores the challenges, identifies and analyses the architecture options, and provides an enterprise architecture view on this subject. We also look at TM Forum Frameworx standards and how they can be used to gain a global enterprise architecture
perspective.