Adapting To Market Trends On-The-Fly
For the transaction-oriented enterprise, integrating core network services and product offerings with external systems is becoming increasingly critical. Payment services providers need to be able to quickly connect to new merchant customers and adapt to fast-changing network standards. Likewise, telecommunications companies have to be able to integrate with emerging content providers and other carriers in order to deploy new revenue-generating services. Integration, however, can be a complex and costly process, especially when it involves building and testing new applications.
Kabira has developed a channel technology framework that directly addresses the system-integration needs of transaction-based organizations. Based on many years of experience in the automatic generation of external system adapters, Kabira channel architecture enables organizations to quickly develop new services and products, and integrate them into diverse networks using standard message-based protocols and program access via APIs.
As with Kabira's open-system platform philosophy, our architecture approach presents companies with a wide range of options, enabling the use of highly configurable channel adapters. Kabira enables enterprises to auto-generate adapters to standard, customized or homegrown applications, or multi-vendor network equipment environments. In this way, you get access to 100% of each application's API or XML schema, allowing operators to take advantage of the total functionality of the software or hardware.
The Kabira channel architecture is best understood in terms of the open system interconnection network model:
Presentation Layer
The presentation layer transforms messages from the internal message format IMF into the format used by the external system protocol. This is referred to as external message format, or XMF.Session Layer
For message-based communication, session layer maintains connections and sustains session-level protocols.Transport Layer
The transport layer is responsible for packaging each session message into the transport layer protocol required by a network connection such as TCP, UDP, or X.25. The transport layer also receives packets at the transport layer of the network connection and delivers them to the session layer.
