TM Forum - Nice 2008

Creating the marketplace for the next generation of services requires participation from Service Providers across all industries, owners of various resources that can be commercialized as valuable services for customers under various business models. To become powerful player in this market place each Service Provider must have the capability to rapidly assembly and re-assembly new services out of its resources which is possible in a framework that supports service lifecycle management such as TMF’s SDF.

Delivering an Industry Information Infrastructure

The “Delivering an Industry Information Infrastructure” Catalyst project will highlight the power of implementing parts of the SID Resource models using Master Data Management and a managed information service to implement an information taxonomy, data governance and workflow across the service provider environment and telecommunications industry.

Delivering Device User Support

This catalyst project will be demonstrated at the Device Management summit in Santa Clara , June 24. The prject will address a user support process for digital lifestyle, digital home, home network, and consumer electronics appliances. This process is a new management applications area in the industry. The intent of this catalyst is to leverage the TM Forum to reach out to a range of companies in the industry - service providers, other device management software vendors, systems integrators, and device manufacturers - to work together to develop and demonstrate an industry standard approach.

E2E B/OSS Framework for white labeling of wholesale products and Fallout Management

In this convergence world, traditional carriers having network infrastructure started offering advanced IP services to other service providers (retailers) which do not have such capabilities. The time taken for the retailers to build and sell these services has been taking a while, some times as bad as 6 months. This leads to delay in time to market and revenue realization. To reduce this time to market and improve revenue realization wholesale service providers want to sell retail products/services as ‘white label' and 'private-label' products / services.

Harmony Catalyst Phase II

The key purpose of the series of joint catalyst projects between TM Forum members and DMTF members is to demonstrate the co-existence and interoperability between SID, CIM and mTOP based management systems through realization of NGOSS contracts and using unified mapping methodology between different Information, Data Models and various interfaces in the context of the end-to-end management of next generation networks. This series will build to cover end-to-end management of Customer SLA.

Integrated Test Management

Integrated Test Management Systems allow communications service providers (CSPs) to enhance their fulfillment and assurance processes by intelligently automating many forms of testing, including component testing, functionality testing, service turn-up testing, and ongoing operational testing.

One Stop Fixed Mobile Convergence Service

To provide customers with high value content, services and ever feel experiences with converged solutions, Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) and other worldwide partners declare their plan to deliver triple-play services to customers with Fixed-Mobile convergence technologies. In other words, Chunghwa will be able to roll out a wide variety of new and compelling services to subscribers in a cost-effective way.

Operator User Management

As TMF CO~OP tackles the question of how to integrate different management systems the question of easing the user login and preventing a decrease in security arises quickly.

Seamless OSS / BSS for IMS Services (Phase II)

This projects develops the work done in Phase 1 and successfully demonstrated at Management World Americas 2007 in Dallas

Zero-Touch Deployment

The internal IT organization in Cisco (a large corporate enterprise stakeholder) is in the initial phase of deploying 115,000 fixed and mobile devices to the homes of 30,000 Cisco teleworking employees. They have innovated a technique for drastically reducing the total cost of ownership. The intent of this catalyst is to leverage this approach in the TM Forum to involve other companies in the industry - service providers, device manufacturers and their supply chains - to work together to develop and demonstrate an industry standard approach.