Easynet Deploys Telcordia’s New Dynamic Service Catalog

Telcordia launched a new OSS fulfillment product called the Dynamic Service Catalog this week from the TM Forum’s Management World conference in Nice while also announcing the product’s first customer: Easynet, a pan-European data networking provider.

As part of Telcordia’s OSS Fulfillment suite, the Dynamic Service Catalog addresses the product and service lifecycle management process. It also significantly reduces the time it takes for service providers to design and construct complex network services such as multinational virtual private networks (VPN).

Beau Atwater, executive director of portfolio strategy at Telcordia, said that utilizing the product has reduced the time investment to create and price a complex VPN service from 21 days to two.

A key feature of the Dynamic Service Catalog is that it can federate data from product and service catalogs across multiple service providers by collecting all the existing tariffs and element information. It will then generate a ready-for-service date that service providers can give to their customers when they take an order.

The product is designed for two primary functions: constructing complex services and reducing the time to bring them to market. “When we were building this out, we thought creating services was going to be the big benefit, but service providers are all about metrics and when they see 21-day service dates reduced to two, creating products faster becomes the big benefit,” Atwater said.

Larry Goldman, co-founder of OSS Observer said Telcordia’s next-generation roadmap reflects the demands of the market to support enhanced customer and service experience. The goal is to simplify the rollout of complex new services and enable new efficiencies in pursuit of sustainable growth. “These are the key business drivers for all communications service providers,” he said.

The Dynamic Service Catalog includes the catalog itself, which centralizes product definitions with extensible configuration, rules and policies that ensure consistent use of them across all billing and operational support systems. It also includes a designer tool and a supply chain order manager, which integrates the entire supply chain from pre-order through fulfillment.