The Service Delivery Platform (SDP) 2.0 is expected to help operators increase revenue from convergent services while reducing the cost and risk of creating new services. The new platform creates a unified resource layer through which multiple services communicate with underlying wireless or wired networks, third-party applications Web 2.0 mashups.
By means of this platform, telecom operators will be able to create converged services that combine telecom, web and IT resources. It also incorporates software technologies for governance, management and quality.
This platform helps, operators to monitor customers’ active presence on the network and their physical location. Operators will also be able to personalize service delivery using different web resources that provide information, multimedia content and social community services.
Furthermore, it provides business and operations support systems to operators, such as billing and network management. HP’s SDP 2.0 also provides service-level controls, identity management and security mechanisms.
Our customers understand that a flexible, SOA-based SDP can help them create new services quickly at lower cost, less risk and faster time-to-market, said Ananda Subbiah, vice president of solutions, communications, media and entertainment at HP.
SDP 2.0 uses governance, management and quality capabilities to help operators expand their application environments to non-telecom developers, which can build personalized and content-rich services for end-customers. Using this platform, developers will have the ability to provide identity management, virtualized control over user profile information, and SOA mechanisms to share context information such as location, preferences and web community affiliations.
Other enhancements in SDP 2.0 include a third-party framework, a virtual identity and profile broker, an enterprise service bus, OSS adapters, service enablers such as HP OpenCall software and testing tools.
In June 2007, MetaSwitch launched an SDP, the MetaSphere. It provides ready-to-deploy applications and serves as a platform on which new services can be rapidly developed and deployed.
Source: ComputerWire daily updates
