AlbatrOSS: 3rd GenerationOperations Support Systems for service creation and deployment

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AlbatrOSS 3rd GenerationOperations Support
Systems for service creation and deployment

• Dr. Willie Donnelly
• Telecommunications Software Systems Group
• Waterford Institute of Technology
• Email wdonnelly_at_tssg.org

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Presentation Structure

• Overview of Emerging 3G environment
• Benefits and Requirements
• The emerging Management Environment
• Issues and challenges
• Conclusions

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Evolving Integrated Network
Seamless (Integrated )End-to-End Services
(Mobile) IP
IT DATA
ATM SDH
Optic
GSM/UMTS
WI-FI
Bluetooth
Public Networks
Corporate Network
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Evolving 3G Network Characteristics

• Open Architecture
• Horizontally integrated layers based on packet
  technologies
• Single connectivity network (voice, data, video)
• Control layer separated from physical layer
• Control layer provides open and programmable
  interfaces to application layers

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Application/Service Categories

• Messaging
• Text Messaging/SMS
• Multimedia messaging (pictures, audio)
• Voice Telephony
• Internet Telephony
• IVR portals
• Content Browsing
• Internet (public, home)
• Intranet (corporate, academic)
• Personalised information services (e.g. Yahoo)
• Entertainment
• TV, Radio (Streaming)
• Video On Demand (VoD)
• Music Downloads
• Location Based Services (LBSs)
• Combination of elements of all applications
  provided within the context of a particular
  location or environment (e.g. flight
  notifications delivered directly to your wireless
  PDA when in an airport)

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3G Service Features

• Services go obsolete before they wear out
• Cost of Terminal Bandwidth decreases
• Usage Patterns constantly mutating
• Value of the network increases
• Network devices, capacity and software
  technologies are constantly changing to support
  customer expectations
• Expect the trend to continue for the next 20
  years.

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Management core to Cost Effective Service
Delivery
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The Management Challenge

• Integration is the Objective
• Telecom and IP Networks
• Integrated Multi-service provider environment
• Universal Middleware Platforms and Tools
• Impact of emerging IT software frameworks
• Alignment of competing standards
• Balance between traditional standards and defacto
  standards
• Evolving Business models

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OSS Definition

• all the support systems required to run a
  Network Operator business
• a set of programs that help a communications
  service provider monitor, control, analyse, and
  manage problems with a telephone or computer
  network
• the system (or systems) that perform management,
  inventory, engineering, planning, and repair
  functions for communications service providers
  and their networks

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OSS and Service Lifecycle
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Status of OSS to-day

• Widely adopted use of SNMP for fault management
  read-only operations
• Use of CMIP/SNMP/CORBA gateways
• Proprietary EAI (Enterprise Application
  Integration) products
• WBEM (Web-Based Enterprise Management) not as
  popular, too expensive
• NGOSS receiving attention, EAI based message bus
  accepted but Contract concept seems too
  complicated

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OSS Limitations

• Redundant and inconsistent information
• No flow-through provisioning causing re-entering
  of data manually
• Multiple different techniques for user security
  administration (per product)
• Non-integrated and different user interfaces

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Delivering 3GOSS Framework
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3GOSS conceptual domains
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3GOSS Requirements

• Emerging business models and roles
• Integrated service networks based on multiple
  access technologies
• Diverse and complex end user devices
• Location based services
• Service integration and composition

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3G OSS Requirements

• Customer Profile Management and Personalisation
  of Services
• OSS Support for Service Migration/Service Roaming
• Management of Session Mobility
• Enhanced Billing Models
• Enhanced Security

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3GOSS Architecture

• Component based modules
• Distributed Systems design principles
• Reusability
• Unified Open interface.
• Weak coupling between components of the system
• Technology neutral

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Conclusion

• OSS central to 3G service environment
• Scope of OSS expands from Network Operator Domain
  to cover end-to-end service management
• Convergence of IT and Telecoms middleware
• The delivery of a 3G OSS still one of the key
  challenges

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• Thank You
• Questions

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Services in a Converged Network

• Span multiple devices and network topologies
  while retaining/increasing usability