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Telecom Web Services

Following a period of intense activity in creating new telecom centric networks and applications through investment in new broadband and mobile technologies, Carriers are now looking at the Internet service delivery model as a benchmark for creating new compelling applications through increased levels of openness and collaboration with the Service Provider and Application Developer communities.

The key principle behind creating this new business model is what is referred to in the industry as "Telco 2.0" which itself is based on the concepts already established in the internet world commonly referred to as "Web 2.0". Whilst there is no definitive solution architecture for implementing a "Telco 2.0 enabled network", there are a number of fundamental principles and building blocks that are central to this approach, the most common being Web Services.

Web Services (and more specifically, Telecom Web Services), enable Carriers to expose their core capabilities toward both internal and external communities and to re-sell these in the market-place as value-add service enablers. Such enablers include messaging, location, presence, call control, authentication, billing and many others. Many of these capabilities are unique to the Carrier and when combined with the ubiquitous and open nature of Web based applications, these bring new levels of personalisation, robustness, mobility and service quality to the end user experience.

One of the most exciting prospects for Carriers choosing to adopt Web Services is the possibility to create a new "service composition factory" that enables Developers and Service Providers to discover capabilities, create new applications and for these to be branded, re-sold and distributed across the Carrier's Q.o.S network.

With this new service delivery solution, there are many types of commercial business models that can now be created that put the Carrier at the centre of the Web 2.0 enabled world as discussed below:

• Wholesaling of WS enabled telecom capabilities to create “mash-ups” with web applications

• Retailing of new composite services through simple integration of Web Service enabled telecom capabilities

• Creating a richer set of Enterprise service offerings using Web Services to integrate Enterprise applications with network knowledge, mobility and service reach

• Ingestion and brokerage of innovative new services through opening up the network to 3rd party application developers

• Blending of 3rd party and own hosted applications into composite service packages branded and re-sold to retail markets and as wholesale White Label services

• Targeted distribution of content created and hosted outside of the Carrier’s domain delivered over Q.o.S broadband networks

Aepona's Telecom Web Services solution provides the key enablers for Carriers seeking to establish their position as a Telco 2.0 Service Provider. Aepona's solution encompasses a powerful set of components that provide the necessary functions for providing an open service layer architecture whilst at the same time addressing the need for protecting the network from mis-use and ensuring that individual SLA commitments are met even in very high traffic conditions. Extensive support for a comprehensive suite of network layer protocols and WS APIs ensures simple integration with a wide range of network devices and industry standard SDK's.

For more information, click on the links below to download our Telecom Web Services white papers. You must be registered to download.

Click to download Telecom Web Services White Paper - Service Delivery Made Easy

Click to download Telecom Web Services Deployment White Paper