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OSS: the market landscape: why the OSS industry can--for the first time ever--produce open, implementable, and certifiable standards.

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This past month the JCP Executive Committees met in Nice, France, in concert with the TeleManagement World conference, where the worldwide telecommunications industry gathered to address technical, operating, and business issues related to the back office systems that they use to run their business with their networks and services portfolios. These back office systems are called Operation Support Systems and Business Support Systems (OSS/BSS), or OSS for short.

My guest this month is Philippe Lalande, head of the OSS through Java Initiative at Sun. Philippe created and drove the lava Specification Request (JSR3) under the JCP, and founded the OSS through Java Initiative, which he continues to lead today. You'll find it interesting to learn directly from the guy at the heart of it all how the level of complexity of OSS systems is driven down by an order of magnitude by lava technology, the JCP, and Java.net, all of which have been instrumental in reshaping an entire vertical industry segment, and in driving up these systems level of agility.

--Onno Kluyt, chair, Java Community Process (JCP)

The OSS/BSS market is worth roughly $50 billion on its own, but directly impacts half a trillion dollars in operating costs. Owning an OSS is actually what characterizes a service provider. Traditional wireline operators own their networks, while MVNOs or mobile virtual network operators run their services on someone else's networks. But all service providers own their OSS. It's their tool to do business.

Successfully running a communications service provider business today requires simultaneously operating large network infrastructures and portfolio of services to...

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