ATIS Releases New Standard

ATIS has released its “High Level OSS/BSS Functional Requirements and Reference Architecture for IPTV” standard, offering support to IPTV service providers.

The creation of the new ATIS standard was based on business requirements established by the ATIS Chief Information Officer (CIO) Council, comprised of CIOs from the industry’s leading service providers, including Sprint, AT&T, Verizon, BT, Qwest, Level 3, TDS Telecom and U.S. Cellular. With the IT resources of the CIO Council in hand, ATIS-0300092 was then developed through the coordinated efforts of the ATIS Telecom Management Operations Committee (TMOC) and the ATIS Ordering and Billing Forum (OBF).

The “Functional Requirements and Reference Architecture” standard defines the requirements for the interoperability of systems and components in the IPTV OSS environment. It also describes a high-level reference architecture of OSS functionality for IPTV service management.

The standard offers requirements and reference architecture for both OSS and BSS software solutions, combining reference to both IPTV OSS and IPTV BSS in one term, “IPTV OSS.” The goal of IPTV OSS is to enable the widest range of IPTV business models by a flexible service integration framework, offering support to process automation, personalization and IPTV consumer self-service, mass customization of IPTV services, flexible value network chains, and easy accommodation of a wide range of resource types from a wide range of suppliers, ATIS said.

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