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EURESCOM WORKSHOP PRESENTED SOLUTIONS FOR THE OPEN SERVICES MARKET
The objective of the workshop was to identify and discuss opportunities and technical solutions that will lead to a wide deployment of OSA and Parlay in the Open Services Market. In an open services market, network operators will have to provide highly secure, open, standard interfaces to their networks. Many argue that the way for operators to do so is to provide Parlay/OSA interfaces. These interfaces give service providers a set of high quality, reliable capabilities on which to base their services. The new business opportunities for the network operators may be increased revenue based on an increased traffic volume and by selling access to the capabilities offered by the interfaces. The technologies supporting OSA may also ease the migration to Next Generation Service Platforms, which may lead to reductions in overall platform costs, and reduced development time. Two keynote speeches by Zygmunt Lozinski, the president of The Parlay Group, and Ard-Jan Moerdijk, chairman of the 3GPP OSA workgroup, presented the state-of-the-art and latest news from the standardisation bodies. Zygmunt Lozinski explained that an important goal for OSA/Parlay is to bridge the gap between the telco and the IT world: 'There are 3 million of Visual Basic programmers, 2 million for Cobol, 1.5 million for C++ and Java each, and we have to reach this community and enable them to develop applications for telecommunications'. He stressed that Parlay isn't just about 3G, but can be used in fixed, mobile and IP networks. The role of EURESCOM in OSA/Parlay standardisation was highlighted by Ard-Jan Moerdijk as he gave credit to the various contributions from EURESCOM project P1110 towards these standardisation bodies. The presentations at the workshop were discussing the OSA/Parlay technologies, implementations and service opportunities as well as further evolutions and the role of OSA/Parlay in Next Generation Networks. The challenge of the industry to take OSA and Parlay from specifications to first commercial products has already been mastered. A panel session focussed on the business aspects and how OSA/Parlay can now be brought into operator's networks. 'Current OSA/Parlay products do not enable the creation of services beyond current Intelligent Network services', said Carlo Licciardi from Telecom Italia Lab, 'so why should an operator deploy this technology?'. The panel underlined that a simplification of the OSA/Parlay interfaces seems necessary in order to reach the huge potential of programmers in the IT world. Parlay X, a new initiative within the Parlay standardisation, was seen by the panel participants as a promising activity to move towards this goal. The workshop participants expressed their great satisfaction with the workshop. The best speaker award went to Zygmunt Lozinski from IBM / The Parlay Group for his presentation on 'Parlay and Web services'.
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