Investigating the Feasibility of Open Development of Operations Support Solutions
Investigating the Feasibility of Open Development of Operations Support Solutions
The telecommunications Operations Support Systems supply chain must address many stakeholders: R&D, Product and Requirements Management, Purchasing, Systems Integration, Systems Administration and Users. While the management of next generation networks and services poses significant technical challenges, the present supply chain, market configuration, and business practices of the OSS community are an obstacle to rapid innovation. Forums for open development could potentially provide a medium to shorten this supply chain for the deployment of workable systems. This paper discusses the potential benefits and barriers to the open development of OSS for the telecommunications industry. It proposes the use of action research to execute a feasibility study into the open development of OSS software solutions within an industry wide Open OSS project.
Open Source, NGOSS, OSS/J, Action Research, OSS, Operations Support Systems, Systems Integration, Requirements Management
Gallen, Craig
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Reeve, Jeffrey
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2005
Gallen, Craig
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Reeve, Jeffrey
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Gallen, Craig and Reeve, Jeffrey
(2005)
Investigating the Feasibility of Open Development of Operations Support Solutions.
9th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Integrated Network Management, Nice, France.
15 - 19 May 2005.
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The telecommunications Operations Support Systems supply chain must address many stakeholders: R&D, Product and Requirements Management, Purchasing, Systems Integration, Systems Administration and Users. While the management of next generation networks and services poses significant technical challenges, the present supply chain, market configuration, and business practices of the OSS community are an obstacle to rapid innovation. Forums for open development could potentially provide a medium to shorten this supply chain for the deployment of workable systems. This paper discusses the potential benefits and barriers to the open development of OSS for the telecommunications industry. It proposes the use of action research to execute a feasibility study into the open development of OSS software solutions within an industry wide Open OSS project.
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Published date: 2005
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Event Dates: 15-19 May 2005
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9th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Integrated Network Management, Nice, France, 2005-05-15 - 2005-05-19
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Open Source, NGOSS, OSS/J, Action Research, OSS, Operations Support Systems, Systems Integration, Requirements Management
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Web & Internet Science, EEE
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Local EPrints ID: 260378
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/260378
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Craig Gallen
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Jeffrey Reeve
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