"Contents :
- Table of Contents by Author
- Acronym Guide
- Next-Generation OSS for Next-Generation Services
- OSS with the Network as a Killer Application
- Testing Tomorrow's Needs Today
- Business-to-Business E-Commerce for Telecom Carriers
- OSS Challenges for CLECs
- Evolving the Intelligent-Agent Technology
- Architectural and OSS Changes for Entering the Real-Time World
- OSS for the Next Millennium:The New Killer Ann
- The Complexity Opportunity
- The Carrier's View: A Reality Check
- OSS Is Not a Killer App
- How Next-Ceneration Technologies Will Alter the OSS Landscape
- Enabling an Interactive Value Proposition for Communications Providers
- Business Costs Placing Emphasis on OSS Features
- Delivering On-Demand IP Service with Guaranteed Service Quality
- IN as a Stepping Stone to IP
- The Real Benefits of IP Telephony
- Delivering QoS in IP Networks
- Enabling Carrier Settlements in Multiservice IP Networks:A Case Study
- Embracing the IP World
- XML for Services
- IP from a Service Provider's Perspective
- Automating Customer Care
- Guaranteeing Quality of Service with Next-Generation Equipment
- Flow-Through Provisioning:Keeping Up with Changes to Your Trading-Partner
Interfaces
- Customer Focus a Main Part of E-Business Success
- Data Quality for the Internet Age
- Testing Challenges for ADSL Networks
- Today's IP-VPN Quality of Service
- Delivering Services to Customers:Becoming an E-Telco
- Delivering and Profiting from End-to-End Quality of Service
- Service Management for Effective Service Delivery
- Keys to Open-System Integration
- OSSs and Data Warehouses:Working Together
- Moving towards a Modular, Open OSS Framework Architecture for Maximum
Flexibility and Scalability
- Examining a New Network from an ILEC Perspective
- Network Management of Multi-Technology Networks
- Coordinating OSS Integration and Interconnection for End-to-End Fulfillment of
Customer Orders
- Business-to-Business Challenges of the Unbundled Local Loop
- Unking Legacy RTUs into a TMN Environment
- Solutions to BSS and OSS Interaction
- Facilitating End-to-End OSS Integration and Management:An Interconnection
Perspective
- Mediation: Building Bridges or Building Walls?
- Achieving Integrated Management for Multi-Vendor, Multi-Technology Transport
networks
- optimal Infrastructure for the Managed Network:Benefits of the Object Model
- OSS Vendors: Challenges and Methodologies
- Problems Associated with the Loss of NPA/NXX Intelligence
- Application Service Framework
- 3G service Modeling and Optimization
- outsourcing: The Bind That Ties
- using TMN and TOM in a Converged Network
- The Foundation of Next-Gen Networks: In-Memory Database Technology
- Component Technology for Developing Network-Management GUIs
- An Architecture for Warehousing and Accessing Usage Data
- Rules-Based Mediation Engine The Enabler for Open OSS"
