Category Archives: Service Delivery Platforms (SDP)
AT&T, Small Cells, and VoLTE
Driven by the growing surge for mobile broadband, carriers worldwide are investing in WiFi and small cell infrastructure as an economically efficient solution to expand network capacity and coverage. AT&T’s project Velocity IP (VIP) represents the deployment of more than … Continue reading →
Quality of Service and Latency Sensitive Applications in Next Generation Networks
Quality of Service (QoS) is a requirement for latency sensitive, real time applications such as voice, particularly Voice over IP (VoIP), as well as real time video services, and multiparty applications (Push to Talk (PTT), Video Sharing, Video Conferencing and … Continue reading →
Service Delivery Platforms
Service Delivery Platform (SDP) can be loosely defined as a standards based framework that facilitates the design, development, implementation and management of services required to run the operations of network services providers. The services could range from the basic voice … Continue reading →
Evolution of Service Delivery Platforms (SDP)
We saw an unprecedented change in late 1990s in enterprise applications as the grip of client-server architectures gradually relaxed and allowed the entrance of n-tiered architectures. This represented the advent of the application server, a flexible compromise between the absolutes … Continue reading →
Drivers for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an arrangement of Information Technology (IT) services that have the following characteristics: Loose coupling Standardized interfaces Consumer-provider relationship The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) defines SOA as “A paradigm for organizing … Continue reading →
Evolution of Service Delivery Platforms (SDP)
There are several reasons that can be attributed to the evolution of SDPs. In the early years of the twenty first century, the telecom vendor and service provider industry underwent a slowdown that had far-reaching impact on the way the … Continue reading →
IMS and Service Delivery Platforms (SDP)
Adoption of IMS involves a quantum leap in terms of technologies, business processes and partner relationships. Again, there are apprehensions about the readiness of IMS components in terms of their fidelity with the promised IMS features. These apprehensions, coupled with … Continue reading →
