JacobsRimell gets busy in Norway across Europe

While some vendors were demonstrating technology advances through Catalyst projects or providing case studies through sessions at TeleManagement World last week in Dallas, JacobsRimell demonstrated the acceptance of its standards-based fulfillment solutions with deployments at UPC Broadband and Norway’s Get.

The company, going on its 10^th year in business in 2007, also introduced the next generation of its OSS platform: the APSDP, or APS Delivery Platform.

JR signed a five-year contract with Get, Norway's leading digital TV and broadband provider. Get will use JR's APS OSS solution to support its broadband, voice over IP and Digital TV products and services as well as a range of blended services planned for next year.

The APS will provide Get customers with intuitive self care facilities that allow them to self-select and modify their products and features. JR’s application already supports more than 15 million Television, Voice and Broadband Internet subscribers.

“The are rolling out a lot of new services and realize adoption rate will be key. We bring them the ability to make adoption simple,” said David Jacobs, CTO at JacobsRimell.

JR’s APS platform is based on a patented subscriber-centric data model that allows operators to develop and manage multiple products and services simultaneously.

The new release of JR’s OSS is aimed at service delivery platforms. The APSDP includes new functionality based on the evolution of key industry standards, such as OSS-J application interfaces, and designed to solve deployment and integration challenges related to SDPs.

”The journey to OSS-J was customer driven, but it was also the desire to not develop new interfaces for each customer,” Jacobs said.

Its Service Oriented Architecture and support for OSS-J were important to UPC Broadband, which will deploy the solution to support its next generation service delivery architecture.

The new release includes three key enhanced functionalities. Enhanced interoperability using OSS-J implementations of the TeleManagement Forum’s New Generations Operations Systems and Software framework, particularly JR’s implementation of the OSS-J Inventory and Order Management API's; usability, which is enhanced using Portlet-based data presentation; and simplicity, which is achieved using BPEL-based workflows to provide operators with a unifying orchestration mechanism and toolkit.

“We now have a mechanism for managing the vagaries of different OSS interfaces,” Jacobs said.

JR has joined the OSS/J Order Management API working group to further develop these APIs.