Service Broker Forum Formed

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- Leading providers of telecom application connectivity solutions, today announced the Service Broker Forum – a multi-vendor forum founded by Aepona, AppTrigger, Convergin, jNetX and OpenCloud aimed at evangelizing and educating the industry on the service broker market space through the sharing of ideas, opinions, and knowledge. Service Broker network elements provide service providers application connectivity, service interaction, network orchestration and support for 3GPP standards. The Service Broker Product Category has developed over the past twenty-four months as a result of the evolving 3GPP interpretation of SCIM and the need to address operator’s requirements for a flexible, cost-effective, efficient and future proof application to network connectivity solution.

Telecom operators more than ever are looking for ways to accelerate new service creation and delivery of telecom products from reusable service components in both IN and NGN networks. As a result, the market has offered multiple niche and sub-market solutions addressing what transpires between the application layer and network control layer. This Service Broker solution efficiently manages network interactions by providing key features such as IM-SSF, SCIM, IN to IN Trigger Management, Protocol/Call Flow Management and Subscriber Data Management Interaction. This enables the rapid delivery of new and existing services across multiple networks.

“Service providers are seeking innovative solutions to speed application deployment and improve the business case for introducing new services,” said Brian Partridge, Director, Enabling Technologies for Yankee Group. “In response to these challenges, the Service Broker Forum represents a collection of companies who are committed to providing network and services migration strategies aimed at protecting network investments while increasing ARPU through new services.”

Aepona Ltd.

AppTrigger Inc.

Convergin

jNetX Inc.

OpenCloud Ltd.