Service Brokering Opportunities and Challenges

Service Brokering: Opportunities and Challenges Nicholas S. Huslak, Ph.D. and A.C. McQuaide, Jr. AT&T Enterprise computer architecture 725 W. Peachtree St., Atlanta, GA 30308 USA nick.huslak@att.com / chet.mcquaide@att.com Introduction Two developments offer new communications, information, and topic delivery capabilities for responding to both business needs for increased productiveness and consumer demand for exciting new services. Emerging from 3GPP and based on the SIP protocol, IMS promises new wireless, wireline, and multimedia network applications, with wireless and decided/mobile convergence being early drivers of this technology. At the aforesaid(prenominal) time, ever-increasing numbers of web services based on the hypertext transfer protocol protocol invite already streamlined business activities and have made online activities a part of daily life. The challenge in a flash facing our industry is successfully blending these capabilities to provide seamless end- applyr experiences aligned with the daily work and personal activities of end users. A key to meeting this challenge is our ability to deliver seamless combinations of IMS and web services.

This involves feature interaction management among combinations of currently commutative services, blending web and IMS/SIP applications, and providing the ability to define, provision, and support offers involving such(prenominal) converged applications. The general call for all of these functions is service brokering or blending. This paper will discuss Service Broker roles (note that we will use Service Broker as a generic term to describe many types of service blending methods), walk by various types of service brokering, discuss the shortcomings of the Service Capability interaction Management (SCIM) plan as currently defined in 3GPP, address some fundamental requirements for a cross domain Service Broker which spans IMS and web services, and outline essential steps in making the cross domain Service Broker concept a reality. This paper is based in part on a... If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com

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