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NetCracker unveils plans for Service-Oriented Architecture Solution
NetCracker Technology, a leading provider of OSS and IT Infrastructure Management solutions, announced today its Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) strategy. The NetCracker strategy includes NetCracker product enhancements and ‘best practices’ implementation methodologies and includes the entire NetCracker OSS Solution.
"We have long been the OSS industry leader in advocating open systems, published APIs, and Web-based applications," said Andrew Feinberg, President and CEO of NetCracker. "We built our application using 100% Java and Sun's n- tier standards for interoperability and scalability back when most companies where adding proprietary C and CORBA interfaces to their closed systems. We have provided support for accessing our inventory information through XML- based JMS messages, SOAP and Web Services since 2001. As a result of our early vision, today we have the most advanced, mature OSS application on the market. Providing full solution support for SOA-based Next Generation OSS implementations is a natural step in maintaining this architectural leadership."
NetCracker's SOA strategy includes:
* Full support for SOA based application server platforms such as BEA's WebLogic 9.0 and WebSphere 6.0 in Q3 2005
* Extending the current set of APIs to support SOA environments in Q4 2005
* Further extending the scalability and availability of the NetCracker OSS Solution by combining SOA architecture with other NetCracker capabilities, such as application server-level clustering
* Establishing a dedicated team to work with NetCracker clients on designing and implementing an SOA architecture and to ‘productize’ best practices for an SOA-based OSS
* Participation in industry standards bodies such as OSS/J (OSS through Java) and the TeleManagement Forum's Next Generation OSS (NGOSS) working group to further SOA-based approaches to building OSS solutions, and to ensure standards applicability and relevancy in actual OSS implementations
"To truly be 'Next Generation OSS', adopting industry standards and demonstrating 'ease of software integration' are absolutely critical. NetCracker has long supported such standards and is the poster-child for open interfaces and streamlined integration," Feinberg continued.
Service-Oriented Architecture is a software architecture in which all functions, or services, are defined using unified service description language and have well-defined public interfaces. SOA is becoming the standard for solution architecture because interfaces are platform-independent, and because the ubiquitous and abstracted nature of the service supports flexibility in choosing which service implementation to use. SOA solutions enable telecom operators to establish, automate and maintain all of their business processes while still retaining the ability to update these processes or perform point- to-point or EAI integrations when required.
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