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May 2, 2012 - The SBF has accomplished its mission of defining the Service Broker Category and increasing market awareness of the benefits of Service Brokers. At this time the individual member companies are successfully delivering service brokers or integrated solutions utilizing service broker functionality. For further information contact the following Steering Committee member companies:
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June 21, 2011 - Light Reading Webinar: Release, Rationalize, Relate and Reuse: The '4R' Business Case for the Service Broker
June 15, 2011 - Heavy Reading White Paper: Release, Rationalize, Relate and Reuse: The ’4R’ Business Case for the Service Broker
October 5, 2010 - New Poll Reveals Over 85% Responders Consider Service Brokers As Key Solution To Their Network Transformation Strategy October 5, 2010
July 28, 2010 - Current Analysis Market Advisory Report: Service Broker Update: Key Transformation Component Comes of Age
July 20, 2010 - Service Broker Forum Launches Service Broker Channel on TMCnet
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Author Archives: Jonathan Bell
How is the Service broker relevant in the current battle between the operators and Apple/Google for customer attention/loyalty?
Apple/ Google etc are competing with Operators by offering over-the-top services. Operators are also able to offer these, but more importantly, they have the ability to offer services that are delivered from within the network, or hybrid services that span … Continue reading
How does a Service Broker interact within an SDP solution scenario?
People mean many things by SDP. A large portion of SDP effort has been to deliver over-the-top data and content services – to open the telecoms network so that third-parties outside of the Operator can deliver services. These services are … Continue reading
How do Service Brokers mediate protocols for applications?
Service Brokers typically provide signalling protocol “mediation” in that they sit in the signalling path and are able to translate from one protocol to another. This goes well beyond a simple protocol mapping, as it has to maintain the finite … Continue reading
How do you see the opportunity (and complexity) of offering services/applications to customers in 3rd party networks (which are not my own network) using a service broker?
The short answer is “protocol mediation”. This example illustrates where it would be useful: Most mobile operators have services implemented in their network on a number of SCPs and these usually utilise standard INAP or a vendor-variant of a standard … Continue reading
Do you see Service Broker as complementary to an SDP or will Service Broker become part of SDP? How today or in next 6 years? Where do you see the best solution for 3rd party application servers in Service Broker/SDP story?
It is arguably part of a network services SDP. If the SDP does not have a Service Broker, then it is certainly complementary. Whether Service Broker becomes part of SDP in general is probably determined more by the future direction … Continue reading
Deployment of LTE voice is will now well documented. How do Service Brokers play into this scenario?
The current view is that LTE deployments will likely be a great catalyst for IMS deployments, and will rely on the IMS architecture. As such, the Service Broker will play a crucial role in allowing these LTE/IMS networks to leverage … Continue reading
Are service SLAs managed and enforced in a service broker environment? Who owns the SLA and the associated risks?
The behaviour that the Operator wants will vary from one service composition to another: the rules for what to do with a charging-related service are likely to be different to those for a post-paid service aimed at enterprises, for example. … Continue reading
