全球通訊整合中介軟體市場 是由出版商Dittberner Associates, Inc.在2008年02月所出版的。
這份英文市場調查報告書價格從美金5000起跳。
Abstract
Dittberner's New Research Report
Though the history of telecom middleware has certainly been rocky, there's no
question that integration excellence remains pivotal for carriers in the years
ahead.
Which underscores the relevance of Dittberner's latest OSS report, The
Telecom Integration Middleware Market, a study that analyzes the forces
shaping the new middleware market and shows how you and your company can
capitalize on the opportunities.
Middleware is on the move again and the Report explains the serious progress
being made by a few large carriers. In addition, the Report shows how new
industry standards and innovations are driving more capable solutions than
existed before. . .
Network Management - The large tier 1 carriers have massive network
integration and management requirements, however, they are cautious about
spending money on big-bang network management platforms because the history of
those efforts has been disappointing.
Here the Report addresses:
- Where telecoms hope to realize incremental gains in achieve their twin
goals of retaining key customers and lowering costs.
- Which types of carriers are attracted to the outsourcing of network
management via the managed services offerings of NEPs.
- How large telecoms intend to balance in-house vs. commercial-off-the-shelf
software.
Element Management & Mediation - Since the network is a man-made
machine, we should theoretically be able to build one SOA-based element
management system that provisions multi-vendor devices with the push of a few
buttons.
Dream on. Network Equipment Providers (NEPs) use proprietary methods to
operate their equipment. There are few standards to abstract to and make the
integration effort worth the cost. Fujitsu will configure SONET differently
than Nortel. Radio network equipment is also highly specific to the way a
particular manufacturer designed its transmitters.
While many would love to see EMSs magically disappear, considering the
proliferation of Carrier Ethernet, softswitches, and other NEs, the diversity
of nodes seems to be increasing rather than diminishing -- making the
integration with higher level NMSs all the more difficult.
Dittberner's Report analyzes the EMS dilemma and explains:
- How NEPs balance the conflicting need to provide better out-of-the-box EMS
manageability and keep their costs down.
- The strategies of the large NEPs in internal EMS consolidation,
multi-vendor EMS cooperation, and managed services
- Why a network element mediation layer implemented at Verizon Business is
an innovative approach that may benefit other large carriers.
SOA and IP Service Orchestration - SOA is a powerful integration
approach because process flow no longer needs to be hard coded but can follow
a contractual model. By encapsulating existing OSS systems, even a
proprietary provisioning system becomes a contracted service within an SOA.
Yet as elegant as the SOA model is, people in the real world have found SOAs
extraordinarily hard to build at large carriers. Two factors are the chief
issues: 1) the lack of organizational discipline to adhere to architectural
standards and 2) the complexity of managing the thousands of parameters
required to build telecom IP products.
- AT&T's Target Architecture/SOA and DataBase of Record (DBOR) is the most
successful integration and OSS/BSS consolidation program implemented so far
at a Tier 1 carrier. The Report chronicles the challenges overcome and
post-merger progress to date.
- IP services orchestration is the missing ingredient for mastering SOA
complexity. The Report walks through a "service inventory" solution being
implemented at Qwest that allows hundreds of core process flows in a
telecommuter IP-Centrex service to be reused for mobile and VoIP service
scenarios.
Semantics Middleware - Transporting messages across the enterprise is
no longer the integration issue it once was thanks to web services, XML, and
today's mature EAI/ESB tools. The biggest integration issue today is not
transport, but understanding the context of messages.
Here, to meet the challenge, the OSS/J and the Shared Information Data (SID)
standards have expanded into a full-blown common data vocabulary for OSS/BSS
architectures. The report shows where and how data model and semantic
techniques are finding real application at large telecoms, in
particular:
- How Verizon Communications successfully overcame semantics problems around
its many legacy provisioning to provide an overlay for its next generation
FiOS service.
- Why the metadata and transformation software used in Telstra's OSS
transformation program is a model that other operators are looking to copy.
Interconnect Middleware - Competition can sometimes be a good thing --
allowing the telecom pie to grow to the benefit of all operators in a trading
circle. The rise of SMS is a classic example. SMS became the huge revenue
generator it is today only when mobile operators in Europe allowed SMS to be
routed beyond their walled gardens.
Dittberner feels that telecom "coopetition" has plenty of room to grow,
especially as telecoms aim to eventually share IP services, presence, and
other information in near-real-time. The software and services that deliver
that connectivity represent a new class of integration middleware.
Three promising interconnect: areas are discussed in the Report:
- New service testing and rollouts where a trusted third party maintains the
confidentiality of the operators involved in the transaction.
- An IMS-style interoperability clearinghouse that sets up a proxy service
to manage real-time information and traffic flows among carriers.
- A global multi-vendor data repository that automatically identifies
devices by serial number, model, version, location, and even what EMS is
required to access it.
Dittberner's report is your chance to get up to speed on the latest telecom
middleware trends. Whether you' re a carrier executive aiming to improve your
OSS infrastructure or a vendor delivering middleware or network management
software, Dittberner's Middleware Report will help you discover:
- What are the most important market priorities?. . .
- Which success strategies of other operators can you adopt at your
own telecom organization?
- Which vendors have industry market share and are leading in
specific niches?. . .
- What's the impact of recent mergers in the middleware market?
- Where are middleware standards such as OSS/J and the TMForum's SID
succeeding?
- Which OSS players should you partner with?. . .
- What emerging trends can your company capitalize on?. . .
Table of Contents
A. Introduction (3 pages)
- 1. Dreams of a Lean and Flexible Network Operator
- 2. The History of Non-Integration - Perspective from GM
- 3. The Search for Strategic Wiggle Room
B. Network Management Systems (7 pages)
- 1. Network Management Through OSS Software
- 2. Closing the Gap Between Network Management and Control
- 3. Integration and Consolidation
- 4. The NEP-Supplied Network Management System
- 5. Network Management as Business Differentiator
- 6. Large Carriers: Cautious over Strategic Platform Change
- 7. The Managed Services Alternative
- 8. The Challenges of the COTS Implementation
- 9. Finding the Right COTS Balance at Telecom Italia
- 10. The Clash of Business & Systems Integration Goals
C. Element Management Systems (7 pages)
- 1. Integrating EMSs into the Network Management World
- 2. The Role of an EMS
- 3. Standardization of EMSs at Large Carriers
- 4. CO-OP Aims to Lower NEP Costs Through EMS Standards
- 5. The Maintenance Costs of EMS
- 6. How Juniper Achieves Superior Manageability
- 7. When a Small NEPs Partners with a Larger
- 8. EMS in a Distributed Network Element & Server Environment
- 9. No EMS for SDP and Other Stuff that Lives in the SIP World
- 10. A Highly Flexible, GUI-based EMS
- 11. The Price of Supporting Network Diversity
D. The Mediation of Network & Element Management (4 pages)
- 1. The High Cost of Maintaining the EMS Jungle
- 2. The Case for Network Mediation and OSS Middleware
- 3. Why Mediation is Needed in Wireless
- 4. The Mediation Layer at Verizon Business
- 5. Where will Mediation Solutions Penetrate the Market?
E. Semantics & Modeling
- 1. The Integration Challenge at Verizon FiOS
- 2. No Database of Record Leads to Order Fall Out Problems
- 3. The Human Factor in FiOS BSS/OSS Deployment
- 4. OSS/J Paves the Way for Semantics Resolution
- 5. Telstra Implements the SID
- 6. The Role of Progress's MetaData & Transformation Software
- 7. Data Model Consumption
- 8. Why Common Modeling has been Tough to Implement
- 9. The System Consolidation Benefit
- 10. The Impact of Common Modeling on the Integration Business
F. Interconnect & Multi-Vendor Semantics (7 pages)
- 1. Government's Role in Pushing Interconnect
- 2. Sharing Presence and Location Based Information
- 3. Preserving the Confidentiality of New Service Testing
- 4. An IMS or TDM-to-Skype Clearinghouse
- 5. Telcordia's Role in Interconnect Middleman
- 6. Interconnect & Multi-Vendor Semantics
- 7. The Four Kinds of Multi-Vendor Information
- 8. The Equipment Registry
- 9. The Location, Connections, & Services Registry
- 10. Automatic Identification of Devices
G. Target Architecture & Master Data Management at AT&T (7 pages)
- 1. The Start of Business Transformation
- 2. The Concept of One and Target Architecture
- 3. Target Architecture, the Universal Billing Platform, and SOX
- 4. The Database of Record
- 5. Web Services and SOA
- 6. Where is the Target Architecture Today?
- 7. One Process as Opposed to One Platform
- 8. The Migration to Target Architecture at AT&T Business
- 9. The DBOR and Data Warehouse
- 10. The Bonded Billing Gateway
- 11. Current Management Problems with the Target Architecture
H. IP Orchestration as Strategic Middleware (5 pages)
- 1. Five-9s Reliability or Winning Future Business
- 2.Where Telcos Win or Lose the Future
- 3. Why SOA is Not Enough
- 4. The Atreus Service Orchestration Environment
- 5. What Services Orchestration will Enable
- 6. Service Management Changes Required to Implement NGN
I. The Carrier Ethernet Market (4 pages)
- 1. The Rise of Carrier Ethernet as an Alternative to Large NEP Solutions
- 2. Carrier Ethernet & Provider Backbone Transport
- 3. Telecom Customers Attracted to Carrier Ethernet
- 4. Carrier Ethernet & Wireless Backhaul
- 5. Metro Ethernet's Role in Promoting OA&M
J. Market Trends & Recommendations (4 pages)
- 1. The Significance of Middleware Mergers & Acquisitions
- 2. Where Growth Prospects Look Promising
- 3. Where It Pays to Differentiate
- 4. Strategic Management Priorities
- 5. Know Your Business Model
K. Telecom Middleware Backgrounder (14 pages)
- 1. Connectivity & Control Middleware
- 2. MQ Series -- IBM's Messaging Queue Paradigm
- 3. CORBA and the History of Distributed Computing
- 4. Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)
- 5. EAI and the Advent of a "Componentized" Telco Infrastructure
- 6. Application Servers
- 7. Java, the Web Browser, and Backend Databases
- 8. The Attraction of J2EE Development Environments
- 9. Web Services
- 10. The Popularity and Advantages of Web Services
- 11. The Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
- 12. SOA Infrastructure Middleware
- 13. OSS Semantics Middleware
- 14. TMF and OSS/J Contribution to Semantics
- 15. Business Process Management
L. Market Segmentation & Forecast Analysis (5 pages)
- 1. How Dittberner Develops its Market Segmentations
- 2. Market Growth Forecast
- 3. Distribution Channels
- 4. Geographic Region
- 5. Service Provider Type
- 6. Service Provider Size
- 7. Type of Middleware Solution
Vendor Profiles
In this section, Dittberner analyzes some leading telecom middleware companies in 5 to 7 page profiles delivering:
- Historical expertise and background
- Specific areas of strength and weaknesses
- Significant customers and partnerships
- Key products
- Differentiators that make the company standout
- The company's provisioning/inventory revenue for 2006
These vendor profiles and technical specs are a great time-saver: they deliver
the kind of information you' d otherwise have to spend weeks tracking down.
A list of vendors profiled follows:
- AdventNet
- Nakina Systems
- Progress Software
- Sun Microsystems
- Vitria
