MANAGEMENT WORLD — OSS and management software provider Amartus is gearing up for the June release of Service Commander 2.0. The company says it’s a major upgrade of its flagship OSS software that features the industry’s first programmable network application programming interface (API) framework for dynamic, on-demand connectivity service fulfillment across next-generation (NGN) IP, Ethernet and optical transport networks.
Now, carriers can truly collaborate with cloud service providers, network exchange operators and corporations to allow them to dynamically create their own services on the carrier’s network. With an open API, carriers can offer unlimited creation of on-demand services to better meet the emerging network business models of their customers and partners while delivering new revenue-generating offerings.
Service Commander was launched in Aug. 2010 and provides end-to-end service delivery for highly complex networks that traverse multiple carriers, domains, technologies and equipment vendors. It offers service-centric processes and tools for design, deployment and operation of dynamic on-demand connectivity that underpin next-generation cloud, business, mobile and residential data networks.
In this release, Service Commander’s new open API framework offers fast support for a range of OSS interfaces, Amartus said, including the TeleManagement Forum (TMF) multi-technology operations system interface (MTOSI), which provides a very efficient means for rapid integration with other applications in the OSS/BSS environment.
“Service Commander enables carriers and equipment vendors to embrace the shift taking place in the telecoms industry and the critical need for automated provisioning of cloud, exchange and flexible IP connectivity services," said Michael Kearns, CEO of Amartus. “Service Commander 2.0 not only delivers the connectivity service automation that carriers require, the new open API framework injects flexibility into the OSS to push service creation even closer to the customer."
