Telecom service providers are facing a new marketplace where real-time service requests and converged services are increasingly in demand. Mobile operators are now in position to use emerging services such as content delivery to open up new and promising sources of revenue. But the new services made possible through growing bandwidth and flexible service packaging present a host of difficult network and IT challenges. Mobile operators need to have the flexibility to automatically mesh service activation with their marketing efforts and those of their solution partners. Likewise, subscribers want to be able to activate the latest services from their handset on the fly. These market drivers are increasing demand for provisioning solutions that can provide better performance, flexibility, availability and lower TCO.

On-Demand Provisioning

Kabira Provisioning and Service Activation™ (KPSA) automates on-demand network and service provisioning through no-touch activation and management of multi-vendor networks and applications. This carrier-class software product enables transactional communication between different BSS and OSS systems through protocol-independent object abstraction and service design. KPSA creates efficient processes with flow-through service and provisioning from order fulfillment to activating network devices and synchronization of resource information with the network view. KPSA offers extremely high throughput, delivering:

• Generic and configurable logic for the full range of emerging operator business models and activation strategies.
• Connectors to all types of underlying technologies.
• The capability to integrate with existing and specific IT applications, with little effort and at low cost.
• Sustained high throughput and scalability to accommodate booming service order traffic and real-time provisioning requests.
• The ability to optimize network access through the grouping of network requests after service decomposition.
• Configurable network element adapters that are easy to upgrade while providing multi-versioning capabilities and advanced rollbacks policies.
• Integration between network inventory and subscriber databases to provide data consistency between IT and network environments.
• Consistent high availability features, robust architecture and automatic recovery capabilities to guarantee 24x7 service delivery.
• Rapid, open and standards based development using UML when custom development is required.