Telecom Connectivity Leaders Launch Service Broker Forum
Market Forum to promote thought leadership for Service Broker product category dedicated to extending application reach and profitability
May 12, 2009 – Leading providers of telecom application connectivity solutions, today announced the Service Broker Forum – a multi-vendor forum founded by Aepona, AppTrigger, Convergin, jNetX and OpenCloud aimed at evangelizing and educating the industry on the service broker market space through the sharing of ideas, opinions, and knowledge. Service Broker network elements provide service providers application connectivity, service interaction, network orchestration and support for 3GPP standards. The Service Broker Product Category has developed over the past twenty-four months as a result of the evolving 3GPP interpretation of SCIM and the need to address operator’s requirements for a flexible, cost-effective, efficient and future proof application to network connectivity solution.
Telecom operators more than ever are looking for ways to accelerate new service creation and delivery of telecom products from reusable service components in both IN and NGN networks. As a result, the market has offered multiple niche and sub-market solutions addressing what transpires between the application layer and network control layer. This Service Broker solution efficiently manages network interactions by providing key features such as IM-SSF, SCIM, IN to IN Trigger Management, Protocol/Call Flow Management and Subscriber Data Management Interaction. This enables the rapid delivery of new and existing services across multiple networks.
“Service providers are seeking innovative solutions to speed application deployment and improve the business case for introducing new services,” said Brian Partridge, Director, Enabling Technologies for Yankee Group. “In response to these challenges, the Service Broker Forum represents a collection of companies who are committed to providing network and services migration strategies aimed at protecting network investments while increasing ARPU through new services.”
Defined as a standalone network element that resides between the service layer and the converging network, the Service Broker decouples the core switch from the service execution or creation environment. The Service Broker product class is extending new and existing application reach while also interacting with data services management such as subscriber data and policy management elements. The result is an innovative alternative for protecting and leveraging an operator’s current network assets and application investments while also introducing new services over NGNs.
Through the Service Broker Forum the combined current and future member companies will promote thought leadership and bring an industry voice to the innovation being delivered by Service Broker solutions to the dynamic and evolving telecom landscape. To collaborate with the Service Broker Forum, visit www.servicebrokerforum.org.
About The Founding Members:
Aepona
Headquartered in Belfast, Northern Ireland with offices in North America, the UK and Europe, Aepona’s products have been deployed by Tier 1 operators such as France Telecom/Orange, Sprint, Vimpelcom, Bharti Airtel, TELUS, BT and KPN, supporting several hundred million subscribers worldwide. Aepona’s solution allows Telcos to embrace the Network as a Service (NaaS) business model by securely publishing their network capabilities - communications, information and intelligence - to the outside world as standards-based Web Services, enables thousands of 3rd parties to telecom-enable both Enterprise business processes and web-based consumer services. Aepona is the technology provider for the GSM Association's "OneAPI" initiative. For more information, see us at www.aepona.com
AppTrigger
AppTrigger is the leading provider of telecom application connectivity solutions having pioneered the industry’s first purpose built service broker network element, the Ignite Service Broker (Service Broker). Utilized by Tier 1 Service Providers in an environment of ongoing network evolution, the Service Broker delivers large-scale, vendor neutral, carrier grade application connectivity solutions with flexible and real time performance. Supporting over 200 million subscribers worldwide, the Service Broker service broker network element enables the preservation of application investment, reduction of application deployment costs and optimized application connectivity across multiple and disparate networks. Headquartered in Richardson, Texas, AppTrigger has offices in Amsterdam, Buenos Aires, Hong Kong, and London. For more information, visit www.apptrigger.com
Convergin
Convergin is the leading provider of Service Capability Interaction Management (SCIM) core network solutions. By utilizing Convergin's Accolade WCS, service providers accelerate their evolution towards IMS and SDP while enabling seamless orchestration of mobile, legacy, next generation and web services elements. Convergin is deployed in over 15 carrier networks around the globe, and successfully integrated its Accolade platform with the major core network protocols and platforms. For more information, please see www.convergin.com
jNetX
Since 2001, jNetX has pioneered the use of carrier class Java technologies in the telecommunications network. jNetX is now the global market leader providing standards based Java technologies and applications across convergent Fixed, Mobile, IMS and Internet/Intranet environments (both for circuit switched and IP based networks). jNetX’ market leadership is primarily attributed to the following three fundamentals. First, the jNetX technology provides the highest combination of open programmability, stability and functionality on the market. Second, and as a consequence to the first fundamental, jNetX breaks the traditional vendor lock-in model and enables the operator to drive their marketing roadmap, own their services logic and react quickly to market threats and opportunities. With jNetX, operators are free to choose their preferred integration partner and benefit from a creative pool of application development suppliers. For more information, please visit www.jnetx.com
OpenCloud
OpenCloud provides the telecommunications industry with Rhino – a real-time application server for agile development, deployment and efficient management of person-to-person communication services. OpenCloud Rhino is a high performance, genuinely carrier-grade service execution environment for traditional and Telco 2.0 services on TDM and IP-based networks It uses commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware and software to deliver service layer agility to networks at a radically lower price-point than traditional solutions from network equipment providers. OpenCloud is headquartered in Cambridge, UK with R&D, Engineering and Support in New Zealand and Spain and branch offices in the US, Singapore and Japan. www.opencloud.com
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