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Please contact:
Jeff Claudino
Director of Sales, Insider Research Services
619-229-9940
or via email at:
claudino@lightreading.com |
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| Combining Telco Services: The Network Service Broker Opportunity |
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It has become clear that there is a need to find a way to speed up the process for new services and delivery. Operators have recognized they need to reuse services in order to accomplish this. These same operators are interested in new service creation and delivery architectures that support the assembly of telecom products from reusable service components. This has been part of the rationale for investments in session description protocols (SDPs) and IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS).
One of the first problems operators face in trying to understand what they need to accelerate the creation and delivery of telecom products from reusable service components and how different vendors' products can help them, is the confusing range of terms in this area. Many terms are used fairly interchangeably to describe technology. It is important for operators and vendors to understand the differences between the technologies in order to effectively create new products.
Vendors suggest that successful services that begin life as mash-ups may be re-implemented using service brokering technology for performance, maintenance, and scaleability purposes. Service brokering is an alternative approach to mash-ups for building services (products) from combinations of other services/products, and network service brokering can accommodate network protocol latencies and other carrier-grade concerns while supporting fast and flexible product assembly.
Vendors and standards bodies should work toward an agreed and adopted definition of the Service Capability Interaction Manager (SCIM), unambiguous roles for applications, and a standard way of expressing service interactions between network and the IT/Web services broker domain. Since inter-domain interactions are supported by non-standard interaction scripting languages and interfaces, operators should recognize that there will be a trade-off between becoming locked into a network service broker vendor's proprietary, combinatorial service interaction environment, and the flexibility and richness of the interactions they will be able to orchestrate between any IT and/or network application.
This report examines current definitions of the service broker and the way service brokering differs from the IT paradigm of service orchestration. It discusses various approaches to service brokering at different levels of the network architecture and how these can be mapped onto vendor products at this stage in the market. Finally, this report also examines future trends for service brokering versus service orchestration and discusses the relationship between service brokering and "mash-ups" in the Web 2.0 domain.
Combining Telco Services: The Network Service Broker Opportunity provides critical insight and analysis for a range of industry participants, including:
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Operators who are interested in new service creation and delivery architectures that support the assembly of telecom products from reusable service components |
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Network service broker vendors needing independent analysis of the market opportunity for their technologies, and the likely pace of adoption |
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Investors seeking guidance on the size of the market opportunity for suppliers in the network service broker segment, and on the likely market leaders in this emerging sector |
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| Operators must support product assembly and the preferred deployment as well as considering the category of network service broker. They also need to look carefully at the functions individual products provide. The following excerpt shows how select vendor products support network service broker functions. These functions can vary widely, even within categories, particularly with regard to support for protocols and state machines, advanced service interaction management, and extended support for network and operational management platforms. |
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| [click on the image above for the full excerpt] |
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 Companies profiled in this report include: Aepona Group Ltd.; Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU); AppTrigger Inc.; Convergin Inc.; Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.; Ericsson AB (Nasdaq: ERIC); IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM); jNetX Inc.; Leapstone Systems Inc./Motorola Inc. (NYSE: MOT); OpenCloud Ltd.; and Tekelec Inc. (Nasdaq: TKLC). |
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| NOVEMBER 2008 |
 Creating Telco Mashup |
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| DECEMBER 2008 |
| Order to Cash: OSS Support for End-to-End Fulfillment |
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| JANUARY 2009 |
| Assuring the Customer Experience: IT and Network Infrastructure Management |
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| FEBRUARY 2009 |
| The Service Factory: Packaging the Next-Generation Service Creation Environment |
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| * Calendar subject to change |
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