Advanced process-based component integration in Telcordia´s Cable OSS

Operation support systems (OSSs) integrate software components and network elements to automate the provisioning and monitoring of telecommunications services. This paper illustrates Telcordia´s Cable OSS and shows how customers may use this OSS to provision IP and telephone services over the cable infrastructure. Telcordia´s Cable OSS is a process-based application, i.e. a collection of flows, specialized components (e.g. a billing system, a call agent soft switch, network services and elements, cable modems, etc.) and corresponding adaptors that are integrated, coordinated and monitored using CMI (Collaboration Management Infrastructure), Telcordia´s advanced process-based integration technology. Customers interact with the Cable OSS by using Web or IVR (interactive voice response) interfaces