Operations Support Systems 2002 Comprehensive Report: Enabling the Next-Generation Network

Format: Perfect Bound, 395 pages
ISBN: 1-931695-05-9
Price: $495; additional copies $250; with CD $595

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FEATURES

• Discusses what service providers should look for when evaluating an OSS, how OSSs should be designed, and how OSSs should interact
• Explores the OSS requirements for effective network interfacing and interoperability
• Examines the impact and implications that wireless, cable, and other broadband technologies are and will be having on OSSs
• Characterizes the business drivers and strategies involved in deploying and operating OSSs in the next-generation network
• Considers what should be done to make OSS a differentiating, killer application
• Analyzes the OSS integration issues that service providers are currently facing
• Addresses the unique OSS challenges that confront competitive local-exchange carriers today
• Examines network topologies and offers examples of OSS and business support system architectures in the landline, wireless, and IP–telephony spaces
• Describes the current regulatory environment surrounding the design and deployment of next-generation OSSs and the networks they support