TM Forum - Americas 2007

The objective of this Catalyst is to demonstrate how TMF standards and best practices enable multiple parties in the service supply chain to quickly create, deliver and manage the lifecycle of complex, converged services such as bundled services today and a wide range of converged services with rich media content used by business and consumer market segments going forward.

End to End BSS Framework

Convergence is bringing about a transformation in the way Communication Service Providers (CSPs) operate as never before. Falling PSTN revenues coupled with triple / quadruple play are forcing companies to formulate a convergence-led strategy for future growth. The critical question that CSPs need to ask is whether they have the process and IT flexibility to cut-across silos of products/services. Recently we have been observing that the traditional service providers started offering convergent services.

Mobile Backhaul Management Catalyst

The Mobile Backhaul Management Catalyst project aims to explore requirements and viable solutions for a robust, flexible and open platform for monitoring, managing, planning and cost-control for providing backhaul services for mobile operators. The project is championed by Time Warner Cable, participating companies are Alcatel-Lucent, BEA, Cisco, Cognizant Technology Solutions, IBM, Nakina Systems, Sun, Telcordia

Seamless OSS/BSS for IMS Services

This purpose of the Seamless OSS/BSS Catalyst Project is to explore a management framework for centralized IMS services. The aim is to demonstrate an IMS Service lifecycle OSS/BSS architecture and methodology to show how to manage the provisioning of IMS services process using NGOSS framework. The project is championed and led by China Unicom and co-championed by Chunghwa Telecom (CHT). Participating companies are Amdocs, Microsoft, TechMahindra, ZTE