An Adapter based Network Management Layer Framework for provisioning Telecom Services
Shantharam Nayak Anup D · IOSR Journal of Engineering · 2013
The provisioning of telecom services requires the subscriber's and service related information to be provisioned onto the network elements.The network elements or element management systems store the information received and is used for activation of the services for the subscribers.These telecom services could be wire-line or wireless based services.All the telecom service providers are rapidly shifting to Next Generation Networks (NGN) which are IP based packet networks.NGN's are independent of the underlying transport technology, hence it does not matter whether the underlying hardware technology is wire-line or wireless based.This enables the service providers to focus on defining new telecom services which could be delivered to customers.Thus, there arises competition between service providers in creation and provision of services to customers as quickly as possible.Also, quick customization of services that are already provided to the customers based on their needs is a major requirement.Hence, the challenge of delivering services by provisioning them quickly on the network is to be addressed as the users scale in numbers.As a part of addressing this challenge, there is a need for effective communication with the network elements for provisioning.A framework that can integrate with multiple Service Order systems, transform their requests into network commands and techniques used to communicate efficiently is mentioned.The commands are generated suitably for the network element and communicated to it based on SOAP protocol.It can work with network elements that expose an interface using Web Service Description Language (WSDL).