Telcordia application-connector overview

Telcordia applications provide telephony, video, and data services to customers over a variety of network access facilities. The Telcordia Service Delivery/Order Manager processes customer orders. The customer orders are uniquely identified by order number and order type. The Telcordia connector allows bi-directional data exchanges between the Telcordia Service Delivery module and the IBM integration broker.

The Telcordia Service Delivery/Order Manager has two major components:

  1. The Service Delivery/Order manger processor, which includes:
  2. The Order Inquiry GUI, which is a component of the Telcordia's Next Generation Network-Operations Support Systems (NGN-OSS) and Tier 2 Inter-Domain Network Management Solution GUI (also referred to as the Solution GUI).

The Telcordia connector uses Telcordia's Order Inquiry to monitor the status of customer orders, order requests, and order items. The Order Inquiry allows you to view:

Figure 1 illustrates the architecture of the Telcordia Service Delivery/Order Manager and the IBM WebSphere Telcordia connector.

Figure 1. Telcordia-IBM WebSphere business integration architecture


As shown in Figure 1:

Service Delivery/Order Manager supports customer order types such as new connects and disconnects. How each customer order is processed depends on order type and action requested. The Telcordia connector supports different message types. Six Service Delivery message types have been tested and are available for the Telcordia connector:

The Service Delivery/Order Manager controls and pro-actively tracks the order request process through its flexible execution sequence flow control capability. The flow involves IBM WebSphere, Telcordia Service Delivery, Network Configuration Manager (NetCon), Work Item Manager (WIM), and three primary, multi-step message exchanges.

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