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• Pipeline's
Q & A with the TMF's Keith Willets
By Tim
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In considering the issue of Standards,
Pipeline took a moment to speak with
Keith Willetts, Founder and Chairman
of the TeleManagement Forum, industry
consultant, and general expert on the
space. Here's what he had to say:
Q: Thanks for taking the opportunity
to speak with us, Keith. TMF is obviously
a leader in the area of standards.
Why are standards so important to telecommunications?
A: Well, if you go right
down to a basic level, mankind would
never have built the most complicated
machine on the planet, ...
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Cisco Systems has been chosen by the
U.S. military to provide IP routing software
for a satellite-based router system project.
The three-year project will be managed
by Intelsat and is expected to launch
in the first quarter of 2009. Intelsat
expects the technology to be eventually
used for commercial purposes, although
its first priority is for military use.
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• Looking
Forward to TMW Nice
By Tim
Young, and
Claire Hara |
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The annual TeleManagement World show in
Nice is approaching quickly. As is generally
the case, OSS types around the globe are
getting jazzed for several days of innovation,
technology, and Mediterranean sunshine.
Here at Pipeline, we thought we'd take
a look at what the show will have in store
for you, our readers, and the rest of the
attendees.
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• Solving
the ICT Solutions Bottleneck
By David
Page |
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Big Business
but no IT
Providing
ICT solutions to the world’s
large enterprises is big business
for a sizable number of outsourcers,
both network and IT. For the business
services division of a network
outsourcer, for example, large-scale
ICT solutions can account for 40%
or more of total revenue despite
representing only a tiny proportion
of all business services customers.
Such a revenue figure is a material
contribution to creating shareholder
value. For IT outsourcers, ICT solutions
represent all, or nearly all revenue.
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• Service
Performance Management: Pragmatic
Approach
By
Jim
Lochran
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As the mix of service provider offerings
become more IP centric, the need to overhaul
existing service performance management
techniques becomes increasingly acute.
Historically, performance measurement of
traditional fixed line services was well
understood and very robust, this changed
with the advent of converged networks and
IP based services. In today’s environment,
service performance management is proving
to be an area of considerable challenge
both from a technology and cost perspective.
These challenges are compounded by the
fact that the infrastructure itself is
still evolving as more...
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• Achieving
Data and System Integration Nirvana
with SID
By
Kenneth Rugg |
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Over the past several decades, information
technology (IT) professionals at service
provider organizations have struggled with
integrating the diverse operational and
business systems present in their environments. While
they have in some cases found technologies
such as enterprise service busses (ESBs)
to connect systems together, they have
continued to hit challenges in getting
these systems to understand data that is
exchanged between them, or put more simply,
to “speak the same language.” This
difficulty led to a desire to develop some
form of common model for information exchange.
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• Standardizing
the Process of Service Creation
and Delivery for Telcos
By
Brian Naughton |
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Today’s telecommunications service
providers (SPs) are reliant on IT systems
that no longer reflect the dynamism of
today’s telecoms market. To survive
and prosper, they need to standardize the
way that new customer-driven services are
introduced, processed and implemented across
their entire IT infrastructures.
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Standards. They've always been a cornerstone
of civilization. Standard, common languages
allowed communication within and among
societies. Standard currency allowed
the expansion of trade and a move away
from the barter economy. One of the
legacies of the Chinese Qin Dynasty
was the standardization of the axle-lengths
of trade carts. Standard axles meant
a standard wheelbase, which meant standard
ruts on standard roads. The techniques
greatly aided trade. Likewise, one
of the few lasting positive consequences
of the Articles of Confederation, which
was in place in the United States before
the Constitution replaced it, was the
standardization of a system of weights
and measures. Standards are important.
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