OSS
through Java™ Crosses the Chasm:
Integration
APIs Leap From Designs and Downloads to Implementations.
Telecommunications
Industry White Paper by Peter Lambert. ©2004
OSS through JAVA Initiative. All rights reserved.
As
a result of these successful proofs, OSS/J compliance is
becoming a key vendor-evaluation factor for AT&T
Wireless, British Telecommunications plc (BT), Covad Communications,
Deutsche Telekom/T-Systems and Vodafone as they develop next-generation
operation support system (OSS) software procurements.
In
little over two years, the OSS through Java Initiative, also
known as OSS/J, has crossed the chasm from theory to proven
implementation within the operations support system (OSS) integration
projects of some of the world's largest communications service
providers.
OSS/J
proof-of-concept implementations begun in the summer of 2003
had succeeded by autumn in the eyes of service providers including
Vodafone in Europe and Covad Communications in the U.S. On
both continents, similar life-size implementations are well
underway at AT&T Wireless, BT and Deutsche Telekom/T-Systems.
At
a time when economic and technical pressures are bearing down
on the inefficiencies of virtually all providers' heretofore
poorly integrated operations support systems (OSSs), these
carriers say they are proving that off-the-shelf, component-based
integration software can cheaply and simply transform fractured
OSS ‘silos' into fully integrated, automated, flow-through
e-business operations.
In
each case, the service provider has drawn strategic vendors
into a life-size implementation of a specific OSS/J application
program interface (API) to solve a specific, real-world business
necessity. These implementations have been launched in a
context of testing a larger concept: replacing an endless
tangle of custom, point-to-point OSS integration projects
with a limited but robust set of off-the-shelf interfaces
for other application integration jobs to come.
For more information
about OSS/J, go here: http://java.sun.com/products/oss/
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