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CTIA 2013
CTIA 2013, May 21-23, 2013, Las Vegas

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Fixed Operators Business Challenges

Fixed operators have been facing fundamental technological and market evolutions over the past decade:

The migration of legacy TDM networks to Next Generation Networks technology around the packet-based infrastructure and services
The convergence of media around DSL-based residential broadband access providing triple-play services
The convergence of fixed and mobile infrastructure and services around the IMS

Next Generation Networks

A Next Generation Network (NGN) is a packet-based network able to provide telecommunications services to users through QoS-enabled transport technologies.

It supports generalized mobility which will allow consistent and ubiquitous provision of service to users. Key characteristics

Architecture based on decoupling of services and networks
It provides capabilities to make the creation, deployment and management of all kinds of services possible
It supports both existing and "NGN aware" End Terminal Devices

Traditionally fixed operators, who provided voice services (service for which network infrastructure were designed) no longer exist, as these operators are now providing triple-play broadband services based on high-speed infrastructure and IP-based transport and applications.

The convergence of media and the over-increasing race for high-speed internet has resulted in the following challenges for fixed operators:

To protect current revenue on voice services in parallel with the successful introduction of triple-play services
To move away from silos organization by rationalizing processes, IT and OSS systems having customer and service centric operations and management
To manage the Next Generation Network migration of legacy infrastructure to new IP-based services and infrastructure ensuring a smooth migration of the services retaining similar level of quality and customers
To federate legacy fixed and VoIP teams and processes around one single media convergent all-IP culture managing packet-based quality of service issues
To complete the SIP-based evolution towards IMS as a pre-requisite to fixed-mobile-convergence

How MYCOM Addresses these Challenges

MYCOM's answer to these questions is to adopt Next Generation OSS (NGOSS) approaches relying on a Technology Neutral Architecture (TNA). This will definitely enable fixed operators to unify and rationalize their processes and systems (which are usually already fragmented as a result of previous technology evolutions) allowing to smoothly migrate to Next Generation IP-based transport and services.

Adopting NIMS-PrOptima™ will bring the following benefits to fixed operators:

It unites legacy and IP-based organization around a single solution
It copes with specific issues of data mediation for legacy networks (file-based) and Next Generation Networks (file and SNMP based) and services (xDR and Probe data based)
It allows the smooth integration of circuit-based telephony to IP-based telephony monitoring the Quality of Service from both technology
It allows for IMS/NGN user and signaling plane (SIP/RTP/H248/SS7) mediation and inspection to monitor real-time voice and video service delivery quality to the customer
It enables transparent business process transformation equally answering to legacy and NGN user requirements thanks to specific KPIs, Reports, Scenarios and modules (e.g. NetWork planning, Profiling, DSS root-cause analysis module).
It limits Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) as well as OPEX/CAPEX expenditures that usually increase with the complexity of a Network
It is future proof and scalable in order to adapt to future Business and Technology changes towards the fixed-mobile convergence