In what it calls a pivotal shift for the telecommunications industry, Telcordia Technologies unveiled its "Elementive" portfolio for managing IP, optical and wireless networks. The open, configurable Elementive portfolio is based on industry standards including J2EE and TMF 513, and would let carriers implement modularized OSS/BSS components either from Telcordia or its partners. The Elementive Portfolio is comprised of three solution sets:
- the Telcordia Managed IP Portfolio, which allows carriers to optimize resources and lower costs, speed delivery of high-margin IP services, improve network performance and QoS, benefit from rapid service creation and better manage service level agreements (SLAs) and IP network services.
- the Telcordia Optical Management Portfolio, which allows carriers to centralize management of complex optical networks, accelerate integration of current and legacy systems, and gain new levels of control over their networks.
- the Telcordia Mobility Portfolio, which provides wireless carriers an opportunity to transform their networks' capabilities through an open framework, create an automated, low-cost business process environment and construct a platform for network and organizational growth.
Telcordia said its new business model would help carriers increase new enterprise service revenues while lowering their operating costs through the use of off-the-shelf OSS/BSS products. Carriers could choose just the open, modular solutions they require from existing Telcordia partners such as Atreus Systems, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Granite Systems, IBM, JacobsRimell, Micromuse and Openet. Telcordia also unveiled new solutions and OSS/BSS partners, including:
CoManage -- Telcordia and CoManage offer telecom carriers a solution to ensure seamless data integrity and accuracy across service activation, inventory management and network design functions.
ConceptWave -- Telcordia and ConceptWave Software are introducing ConceptWave Order Care into the Telcordia order automation solutions for order negotiation and management and exception management.
Dimension Data -- Telcordia and Dimension Data, jointly develop, market and deliver fully integrated operations management solutions that enable service providers to realize the maximum investment from their next generation networks on a global scale.
Sheer Networks -- Telcordia and Sheer deliver an integrated solution for managing ATM, DSL and IP-VPN services, incorporating Telcordia's Fault management and Inventory database link, together with the Sheer BOS auto-discovery component, which automatically feeds real-time network information to applications such as provisioning, fault, billing and asset management systems, while synchronizing off-line network inventory databases with live, accurate network information.
http://www.telcordia.com/elementive
