SOA in telecom industry

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SOA overview
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is the underlying structure supporting communications between services. SOA defines how two computing entities, such as programs, interact in such a way as to enable one entity to perform a unit of work on behalf of another entity.

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SOA principal

Loosely coupled Reusability Vendor independent Metadata driven Wire formats, not programming language APIs

Soa architecture layer

Soa TEL

ITU-T has produced Recommendation Y.2234, "Open Service Environment Capabilities for Next-Generation Networks", which describes open service environment capabilities for NGN with the aim "to enable enhanced, flexible service creation and provisioning Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) has standardized the service layer with a SOA blueprint (OMA Service Enablers (OSE)). 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) have now consolidated their interest on SOA for Telecom's in OMA. SOA Telecom solutions on authoring, deployment, execution and management as these are considered by Telecom providers
IEEE NGSON focus on such SOA aspects TM Forum SDF targets among other things management of the resulting services

SOA for OSS/BSS/SDP integration:

Telemanagement Forum (TM Forum) Service Delivery Framework (SDF) work in collaboration with OMA, OASIS and other bodies to standardize an end to end OSS/BSS/SDP integration based on SOA.

Telecom web services

Provides the core building blocks that enables the carrier to expose capabilities of its networks to third party application providers and enterprise customers in a secure, controlled and billable manner. Evolving OSA Parlay/Parlay X standard , defined by 3GPP, 3GPP2, ETSI provided essential standard base for telecom web services. Currently TMF NGOSS TAM (Telecom Application Map) is becoming a useful framework for organizing and categorizing telecom based web services .

Telecom web service architecture

SOA in OSS-BSS
The combination of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and established standards gives the telecom service provider a decisive advantage over the competition when vying for custom. This defines some key requirements such telecommunications companies demand from their operations support system (OSS) and business support system (BSS) solutions: High level of process automation (end-to-end) High level of business flexibility Short time-to-market rate Low operating costs Incorporation of customers in the value chain (through Self Care and Self Administration)

SOA specific OSS-BSS Product stack

Big players of SOA world are engaged to explore new product suites to enhance OSS-BSS domain. IBM Products:
The OSS/BSS integration solution is based on IBM's telecommunications software framework, the IBM Service Provider Delivery Environment (SPDE), incorporating information technology and telecommunications standards. Solution Component can include WebSphere Dynamic Process Edition- authoring environment for end-to-end integration of your service-oriented architecture (SOA), process modeling, simulation and analysis capabilities to help users understand, document and deploy business processes. WebSphere Telecom Content Pack- provides a rich set of assets for fulfillment, assurance, billing, customer interaction, inventory, catalog, and media lifecycle processing solution areas. IBM Global Business Servicesto help integrate the new systems and retained legacy systems. 9

SOA specific OSS-BSS Product stack- Cont

ORACLE Product:
Oracle Solutions Enable BSS and OSS Transformation through Better Integration and Connectivity across Disparate Legacy Platforms. Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud and Oracle Fusion Middleware solutions- for its BSS OSS to support the carriers ongoing initiative to drive better integration of legacy systems and third-party applications and enable re-usable service-based connectivity in a heterogeneous IT environment. Oracle SOA Suite-Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) to provide the backbone infrastructure and underlying connectivity required for the carrier's BSS and OSS platforms. OCSG (Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper)- used as network adapter in SDP. It supports specific telco protocol and expose the service to SOA platform. It also supports partner management and billing etc. Some capability can be duplicated with SOA platform or legacy business application. 10

Advantages of implementing SOA in OSS/BSS

Convergence of OSS/BSS systems with IMS based upon SOA principals is underway in telecom enterprise service providers see SOA as enabling significant improvements in OSS/BSS. Vendors also feel that SOA implementation driving down OSS BSS costs.

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Advantages of implementing SOA in OSS/BSS

Communication between BSS and service platform shall go through service platform.

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Service Delivery Platform & SOA

SDP exposes capability of system with unified interface. It reduces integration costs and let telco company to adopt new requirement quickly. By providing common services like billing, charging, logging, it removes duplication in implementation. This concept is exactly matched with SOA. So SDP can be think as Telco specific version of SOA. Traditional SOA communicated with legacy APPLICATION, SDP communicated with legacy NETWORK APPLICATION (SIP application, SMSC application, Paray-X based Application etc.). Service orchestration technologies eg BPEL is becoming part of emerging SOA SDPs, enabling service to be composed from telecom functional blocks and blocks of functional business ogic from the IT domain. 13

SOA in modern telecom

TM Forum's Frameworx initiative is defining an SOA-based Integration Framework that will eventually provide the detailed SOA expression of the standards organization's data, process, and applications frameworks. Frameworx should significantly reduce the time, cost, and risk that NGOSS pioneers, such as BT Group plc and Telstra Corp. Ltd., encountered when implementing SOA-based service-layer processes and architectures. Alcatel-Lucent implementing a full SOA-based service layer for two African incumbent operators.

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