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Building on Seamus’ own analysis, the edge community is asking for these specific needs to be filled by network service providers, (and if not them, someone). The IC/UC community (and its developers) want the network to provide:
Security: protection from malicious and incidental attacks such as unrestricted notifications. “Subscribers are not capable of protecting themselves from everything. They need and want to trust their service provider.”
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Address and connectivity that work across all networks; address space mediation; plus the elimination of meaningless and inconsistent prefixes to numbers/addresses
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SIP should be everywhere and consistently applied everywhere with the same architecture and extensions
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Until universal SIP happens, networks should provide universal protocol mediation
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Support of any CODECs, with QoS that is specifically tunable to the various endpoint CODECs
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Transparent QoS selection where the underlying SP network mechanism is hidden
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Policy-based call/connection/session prioritization. Overriding network rules (emergency first) than user’s ability to pay for priority class interfaces
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Selection from heterogeneous cost models such as “pay for what you select/get” of QoS
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Creation of barrier free federated IP networks
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Connection to anyone, anywhere, at any time over any federated network connection
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Clarification of the basic business model of who pays for what and why (Well, perhaps this is asking too much – does it happen in any other industry?)
Smart Homes: What specifically does the intelligent neighborhood and its smart homes need from the networks and what network and service management services will be needed? According to Phil Johnson, he would be interested in network service providers bringing these services:
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As members of the telecom ecosystem, service providers, equipment manufactures, independent software vendors, and systems integrators, we all must discover: What does the Network have that the Edge really needs? |
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- More community-based service management with servers and networks based on the community needs and requirements, such as elderly care with Telemedicine at home monitoring, local storage, and ASP model services
Stewardship of the Seas: A Role for BSS/OSS
Our analysis leads to the notion of a symbiotic relationship developing between the Core and the Edge – advances in one feeding another; needs in one spurring advances in the other. Neither the edge industries nor the network providers can live, and prosper, without the other. But what is missing are the information technology and the robust policies and dynamic processes that would provide a Collaborative Systematics for managing and facilitating this symbiosis. We propose calling this missing ecosystem opportunity SPACE: Services Provider Autonomic Collaboration Environment.
If Edge providers and Network providers are going to find a meaningful way to collaborate, then the OSS/BSS community can positively impact this great undertaking. Our experience in practical, timely, agile, and scalable management and transaction systems can be of great benefit to these edge communities, and therefore should become a great incentive for them to work with the owners of these systems, the network service providers. On sensor network management: “We achieve this by pursuing hybrid architecture; one, in which a central knowledgebase and reasoning engine support an overall decentralized architecture that consists of a collection of autonomous mobile agents that are capable of intelligent data gathering and performing local reasoning tasks.” [Carl Kesselman] The TMF pioneered this work in the Finegrain NGOSS project.
On inventory and supply chain: “Telcos need to consider the entire Order-to-Cash process for such bundles and mixed offerings, and understand all the customer, OSS and BSS touch points. With this evolution in mind, the Global Business Association (GBA) has been working on an expansion of the business process map for Revenue Management, and has been exploring the synergies and extensions to eTOM.” [Alex Leslie, GBA Director of Strategy, TM Forum]
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