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Delivering the Total Package:
Letter From the Editor, February 2007.
There are a lot of jobs out there that you never really think about until they aren't being done. We might not pay a lot of attention to the people who collect our trash. We put out the garbage, they pick it up. We may hear or see a truck from time to time, but mostly we just see the results of the labor of the sanitation engineer. We hardly give it any thought at all. However, cut to a hot summer day when the garbage collectors have missed a pickup or skipped a street or gone on strike and decided not to come into work. All of a sudden, we realize how important those jobs are.
Similar things can be said for long-haul truck drivers, janitors, air traffic controllers, or the guys who fix the potholes in the streets. If they are doing their jobs effectively, we hardly even remember that they are there.
Such is the situation for so many groups in the world of OSS. End users forget about the challenges of provisioning, fault management, billing, and many other behind-the-scenes elements of
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This month, Pipeline takes a look at some elements of next generation OSS that will ultimately make it easier to deliver hotter technologies more smoothly, and some of the obstacles that stand in the way.
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telecommunications until someone screws up. A successful OSS group must be essentially invisible and invisibly essential. All the while, they must find the way to deliver the total package to the end user.
This month, Pipeline takes a look at some elements of next generation OSS that will ultimately make it easier to deliver hotter technologies more smoothly, and some of the obstacles that stand in the way. Join us as we address the smooth and profitable shift to next generation technologies, rating and billing applications that accompany this next generation, maintaining a live and adaptive inventory, embracing MPLS, benchmarking, network modeling, and a whole lot more. Also, Pipeline is proud to bring you a snapshot of the upcoming 2007 Next Gen OSS Integration Summit and a look at some of the news impacting the industry.
Enjoy!
Tim Young
Editor-in-Chief
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