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Acronyms

ACF Autonomic Communications Forum
BSS Business Support System
CMDB Configuration Management Data Base
CORBA Common Object Request Broker Architecture
DCE Distributed Computing Environment
DSLAM Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer
EJB Enterprise Java Beans
eTOM Enhanced Telecom Operations Map
ITIL IT Infrastructure Library
JMS Java Message Service
LSP Label Switched Path
MTOSI Multi-Technology Operations System Interface
NGOSS New Generation Operations Systems and Software (TMF) Next Generation Operational
Support Systems (HP, common usage)
OSS/J Operational Support Systems through Java
SDP Service Delivery Platform
SOA Service-Oriented Architecture
TAM Telecom Applications Map
TIP TMF Interface Program
TMF TeleManagement Forum
XML eXtensible Markup Language

References

[GB922]: TeleManagement Forum. 2005. Shared Information/Data (SID) Model, GB922, Release 6.0,
November.
[GB935]: TeleManagement Forum. 2006. Business Metrics Framework, GB935, Version 2.2, August.
[IEEE1471]: ANSI/IEEE. 1471-2000. 2000. Recommended Practice for Architecture Description of Software-
Intensive Systems (also adopted by ISO as ISO/IEC 42010:2007).
[M3010]: International Telecommunications Union. 2000. Principles for a Telecommunications Management
Network, M.3010, Section 9.5, February.
[M3400]: International Telecommunications Union. 2000. TMN Management Functions, M.3400, February.

Summary and Trends

Kornel Terplan

As a result of competitive pressures, service providers are accelerating the process of service and product
creation. This fruitful strategy allows existing customers to be retained and new ones to be acquired.
In most cases, however, service creation and infrastructure innovation are not in synch with respect
to speed. The same physical infrastructure will be used by many services, many customers, and many
business partners. It is extremely important to identify the potential business impact of infrastructure
components. However, managing the product portfolio and the networking infrastructure is, in many
cases, an afterthought. Service providers must remedy this situation in the near future.
Service providers are on the right track to streamlining many service offerings using IP as a basis.
Everything will be offered over IP; triple-play, quad-play, and more or less “any-play” will use IP as an
aggregation platform. The transition to IPv6 will lift all address-space limitations. However, this transi-
tioning process may take many years.