HP SDP on the Intel virtualized platform are the best recipe to success into End User Services lifecycle management!
The business challenge
In today’s telecommunication industry, end user services are the main source of revenue. It is vital for an operator to be able to regularly launch innovative new Value Added Services to increase revenues and keep competitiveness. However, the way can be long between the thoughts of a brilliant developer and the delivery of the service to the end user.
To help operators and developers, Value Added Service (VAS) providers and ISV's to develop future revenue sources, HP proposes to leverage its Service Delivery Platform and to use HP and partners product to accompany the service, from the brains to the customers.
Solution overview
The Application Lifecycle Management
is made up of different steps:
Define/Requirements:
determining requirements and defining the framework of the future developments.
Design/Modeling:
this phase is critical for the developer as it can decompose the final VAS into atomic components. These components can be either a specific needed development or an existing simple service hosted in the SDP.
Develop/BPEL Orchestration: after having designed the final EUS it is possible to orchestrate existing atomic services and new developed ones to create and allow complex orchestrations that result in a complex Business Logic within the VAS.
Testing: the most critical one for an operator as it is the standardization step of all new services. To ensure this compatibility with standards (like WS-I), testing tools will look forward the service to be standardized enough to be deployed on the operator’s platform. It allows the operator to manage all of its services and all of the partners new development to minimize the future development costs.
Deployment on an Application Server.
Manage – Security, Automation and Management: the centralized management of existing services.
All these steps are handled by different products from HP and its partners. Each product should need its own hardware, although different actions are not taken all in the same time. A good solution to enhance the flexibility of the SDP and add more freedom to its components is to use virtualization to abstract hardware layers and allow the different components to leverage the same hardware platform and easily monitor the different levels of usage.
The karaoke demo
In order to highlight every parts of the lifecycle, the CME Solution Center has integrated a demonstration of all the products and the integration of the karaoke model into the different products involved.
Karaoke is a SIP based application running on SIP AS and OCMP that transforms a hone into a microphone to sing over a melody. SIP karaoke works from a SIP phones or any legacy phones thru the SIP gateway. Songs are recorded on the server and can be re-played at anytime to any friend’s phone. The karaoke service is a good example as it uses two enablers that can be integrated in the full Application Lifecycle Management solution. The two services are playSong and recordSong.
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