Emerging industry standard for managing next generation transport networks: TMF MTOSI

There are enormous business benefits to being able to separate the business logic from the massive technical complexity at the network level. One of the greatest challenges to being able to achieve this abstraction at the OS level has been the requirement to communicate and manage many different sets of vendor technologies. The main inhibitor to overcoming this challenge has been the lack of standards supporting both the interface from an OS to an EMS and also that between OSs. Building upon the successful Multi Technology Network Management (MTNM) CORBA/IDL interface, MTOSI has extended MTNM work to support XML/Web Service interactions between various types of Operations Systems. MTOSI bridged the standard gap by defining a methodology and a framework to map the domain specific business activities into well defined TMF NGOSS contracts according to the Service Oriented Architecture principles. This session introduces the key aspects of MTOSI and presents a real use case of MTOSI in BT.