Provisioning and Activation

New technologies and network architectures, such as NGN, enable operators to create more and more complex blended, bundled and converged products and services offerings. These are introduced much more quickly and have shorter lifecycles. Telecom operators face the challenge of defining and managing large numbers of products and provisioning the underlying services that span across different domain network technologies. Moreover, they must be able to enable subscribers to self-administer their service settings and automatically initiate activation when a service is first accessed.

The Provisioning and Service Activation product that is part of the Fulfillment Orchestration product suite provides an agile and flexible framework for telecom service providers to reliably automate the delivery of high-value, complex and converged services to customers – faster and at lower cost than ever before.

Key Features of the Provisioning and Activation solution include the following:

• Dynamic & Convergent Catalog
  • Assembly of re-usable services to compose large amounts of offerings & bundles using rules
• Graphical Modeling of service realization process agnostic to technical constraints
  • Complete focus on service realization process no matter the equipment used;  resilient to external system changes & complexity
• Service order Transaction
  •  Multi-level rollback support for complete order undoing
• Integrated & Convergent Network Inventory
  • 2-phase commit resource allocation during fulfillment to eliminate discrepancies & errors in network
  • Multi-technology network inventory supporting product & service convergence

The Provisioning and Activation function follows the TM Forum (TMF) Enhanced Telecom Operation Map (eTOM) Fulfillment Business Processes.