BT has been using it for a while, but TM Forum officially released MTOSI 2.0 today. The company calls it the most comprehensive standard ever published for managing broadband telecommunications — covering both resource and service management and including inventory, assurance, and activation, some of the most integration-intensive areas in service provider operational environments.
Multi-Technology Operations System Interface (MTOSI) Release 2.0 provides all of the specifications needed throughout the development lifecycle, including business analysis, information model, and interface specifications. According to TM Forum, with MTOSI, implementers save significant and measureable effort on system integration at:
- the requirements stage, by reducing uncertainty and providing leading-edge business analysis
- the design stage, by describing best practices for creating Web Services-based interfaces
- the integration stage, by defining detailed specifications of the critical interface operations that are needed to manage networks and services.
Chunghwa Telecom will demonstrate its use of MTOSI 2.0 in Transmission Network Management Systems at Management World 2009 in Nice, France (a cooperative project with Telcordia).
