TM Forum - mTOP-MTOSI

Gaining Control of a Multi-Everything Network

Bringing together multiple technologies, multiple vendors and multiple systems to deliver seamless customer services

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mTOP-MTOSI Overview

Service Providers must deliver new services and products more effectively – faster and cheaper – than ever before in an environment that requires inter-working between many different Vendors, Technologies, and Systems.

MTOSI, the Multi-Technology Operations System Interface, is a single standard that provides the “glue” to connect these components together.

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mTOP-MTOSI News

News related to the Multi-Technology Operations Systems Interface project

MTOSI2.0 released for Member and Public Review
MTOSI Release 2.0 is the latest version of the MTOSI solution, and it is now ready for review by TM Forum Members and other participants in the telecommunications industry. MTOSI R.2.0 greatly extends the coverage of previous releases to include more management functionality into new areas such as resource trouble and performance management, and service activation and inventory.

Read the MTOSI2.0 Overview document.
Download a review copy of MTOSI2.0 here.

mTOP-MTOSI Joins the TM Forum Interface Program
The TM Forum Interface Program was launched in April 2008 as the entity responsible for all normative interface work within the TM Forum.

Under the TM Forum Interface Program, all interface development efforts will be unified. That includes OSS/J (the multi-technology APIs that deliver on NGOSS design guidelines); mTOP (network and service management from transport); IPDR (the interfaces used for usage data management and accounting); and CO-OP(implementation of a common architecture for mobile network management.)

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mTOP-MTOSI Team Activities

Multi-Technology Operations System Interface (MTOSI)
The TM Forum MTOSI effort has the goal of defining a unified open interface to be used between Operations Systems (OSs) for the purpose of network and service management. The goal is to cover all technologies from layer 1 (e.g., SONET/SDH) to high layer technologies such as VoIP. Given the success and popularity of the TM Forum Multi-Technology Network Management (MTNM) effort, the MTOSI team has decided to base their work on the MTNM model. The MTNM model is intended for the NMS-EMS interface and the focus is on network resource management.

mTOP-MTOSI Documents

The MTOSI Product Delivery Team with the TM Forum Interface Program presents Release 2.0 of the Multi-Technology Operation Systems Interface (MTOSI) Solution Suite.

Release 2.0 of the MTOSI product is a major release, which means that it contains new features in adition to corrections and extensions to the previous MTOSI 1.x releases. The many modifications introduced in this release. are summarized below:

Service activation management
Resource provisioning and activation
Management of connectionless networks
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mTOP-MTOSI Catalyst (Work Completed)

The MTOSI Catalyst demonstrates how the MTOSI Standard is used in different ways to:

* Benefit different types of Stakeholders

* Implement realistic end-to-end provisioning and assurance scenarios

MTOSI: Any Network - One Interface
Multi-Technology Operations Systems Interface (MTOSI) catalyst intends to show a possible solution to the business problem of a service provider looking to integrate selected OSS products from multiple vendors in a timely manner, without having to hammer-out pair-wise agreements between the various suppliers and without getting unnecessarily locked into any of the suppliers. Sponsors BT, Cable & Wireless, TeliaSonera; Participants: CEON, Cisco Systems, Cramer Systems Limited, Huawei Technologies, IONA, Lucent Technologies, Nortel, Pantero, Sonic Software, Telcordia Technologies, TTI Telecom

mTOP-MTOSI White Papers

Multi-Technology Operations Systems Interface (MTOSI) Business Case
This paper provides a brief overview of the TeleManagement Forum (TM Forum) Multi-Technology Operations Systems Interface (MTOSI) work concerning an XML-based interface for use among Operations Support Systems (OSSs).