Operations Support Systems:
Solutions and Strategies for the Emerging Network

Format: Spiral-Bound, 401 pages
ISBN: 1-931695-19-9
Price: $495

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FEATURES

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
• Explores the network-management systems that providers need to preserve profits while delivering high QoS
• Identifies the causes of revenue leakage as well as how to prevent its reoccurrence, while exploring how to turn such revenue losses into profits
• Addresses how services and products are provisioned and proposes new ways to deliver them in less time and with fewer resources
• Considers what should be done to make OSS a differentiating, killer application
• Analyzes the OSS integration issues that service providers are currently facing
• Examines network topologies and offers examples of OSS and BSS 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