An Architecture for Provisioning IP Services in an Operations Support System
A. John, Binay Sugla, H. Krishnan, E. Park, A. Raghu, R. Sequiera, A. Wanchoo · 2003
This paper discusses an architecture for a provisioning system that meets the challenges currently facing service providers in a service and subscriber-based OSS environment. The architecture makes a clear separation between a provisioning core, which is a general framework for provisioning services, and service definitions that model the provisioning view of a service. The architecture is distributed, scalable and extensible and is especially suited for scenarios where a large number of services is expected to be offered, deployed, and managed. The service definitions can be used by the other OSS components to correlate information to provide complete device-to-service-tosubscriber diagnostics for faults, performance degradations, and accounting. It is argued that this approach leads to natural, efficient and effective management solutions.