“Competitiveness demands flexibility, choice and openness”
David Cameron
Over the last four days, we’ve covered a number of aspects of introducing OSS into non-traditional customers. There is one major risk that awaits the vendor that broadens its customer net though. Whilst there are similarities at a node-arc-service model across many industries, there are also industry-specific challenges that await.
For example, in the CSP industry, diverse path circuit design generally connects point A with point B via two diverse routes, possibly as a single “circuit”. However, in the electricity industry, diverse path design usually takes the form of point A connecting separately to sub-station B and sub-station C. This means that there are at least two comms circuits required to support a single electrical circuit with diversity.
Every customer has its own intricacies and often it will require an industry SME (Subject Matter Expert) to help translate requirements into a data model that fits the capability of the vendor’s OSS.
If you’re a technologist (eg enterprise architect, developer, BA, tech PM, CTO, etc) who has been tasked with implementing significant technological and business transformation in
We’ve embarked on a journey of trying to plan for the future of OSS/BSS, not by predicting the future, but by seeking ways to be
Over the years, I’ve often referred to The Corkscrew Analogy or Momentum Spiral to describe a mindset of incremental improvement that’s needed to keep an
We’ve embarked on a journey of trying to plan for the future of OSS/BSS, not by predicting the future, but by seeking ways to be
Here at Passionate About OSS, we are exactly that – Passionate About OSS (Operational Support Systems). We’re also passionate about BSS, NMS, or any other names you call the tools that help to operationalise your network.
