• Lowest cost network integration: In-house network adapter development and mediation software development can be avoided, and replaced by a product-based integration (that can even be outsourced).
• Market coverage and time to Market: M*Ware offers PROVEN integration to the widest range of different networks and network elements.
• Integration Quality: M*Ware Dynamic Mediation is a recognized solution used inside many Network Equipment Vendors and Service Providers.
• Efficient Product continuity: With M*Ware, integration logic can easily be updated and M*Ware is committed to offer support for both legacy and the newest standards.
• An additional market: M*Ware Exchange Services can be added to expand the application with information management between multiple organizations and their support systems environments, enabling automated collaboration between operators and work centers.

This allows the OSS Vendor to focus on its unique strength and core business, and let its own developers bring the best possible application to market. In addition, the OSS Vendor Sales and Marketing organizations can offer a better total solution to their customers.

For the OSS Customer

Normally, approximately one half of the total project costs for a new OSS is spent on integration and customization. The success and efficiency of integration and customization heavily depend on individuals, third-party integrators, and the generic functions of different types of middleware. This is always a difficult selling point for OSS vendors.

With M*Ware inside, the OSS vendor can present real solutions to solve these challenges. Integration becomes efficient, proven, rapid, predictable and easy to change and maintain. The total price will clearly prove that the M*Ware integrated OSS solutions are more attractive than buying a competitive solution (and then have them customized and integrated separately). Vertel has clear ROI analyses tools to help OSS vendors.

Customers know they get the best solution for the best price since a higher percentage of the total solution consists of COTS components, with high performance, firmly tested, without hidden surprises and unexpected costs. 

Customers get the best of both worlds--the services from a dedicated application vendor, backed by the specialized support from a dedicated integration technology provider. 

The M*Ware architecture makes it easy for customers to expand their infrastructure with additional networks or additional support systems and efficiently re-use most of the mediation logic. Moreover, the changes in systems and networks can be easily managed. 


How?

The different product components in M*Ware integrated OSS solutions are incorporated in the most advanced and flexible manner. M*Ware uses public, standards-based interfaces to create an open, ubiquitous network data layer bus that not only translates all network protocols into a common language, but also maps the diverse network data in a protocol-independent common model (in line with the DMTF CIM). This M*Ware layer then enables easy communication at protocol and data levels between any OSS and any underlying networks via single interfaces. 

Dedication

Consequently, in M*Ware-enabled support infrastructures, the network connectivity, data collection and data transformation tasks are performed by M*Ware, and are clearly split from the OSS application tasks performed by the OSS application. Total solutions are based on collaboration between a range of specialized components, fully compliant with NG-OSS (a widely supported new architecture for operation support systems). 

Vertel M*Ware is the first complete solution to provide common system management and interconnection components, required to integrate multiple OSSs with multiple networks, in one consolidated product. Thus, M*Ware is an important enabler for communication providers who desire to migrate to NG-OSS. 

Base new applications on M*Ware DE

M*Ware is specifically designed to bring network integration and management development to in-house development groups or system integrators. Combine your in-house service-specific domain expertise with our powerful open and flexible integration platform to develop all types of network information applications. Different protocols (CMIP and SNMP) and different standards (ASN1. and GDMO), different characteristics of the mediation (bulk traffic, time critical) and an environment that is difficult and expensive to simulate and test make network integration tasks a real challenge. With M*Ware, these specialized tasks become easy for every C++ or JAVA developer!

Contact Vertel Sales today to get details about our OSS vendor offering and our enablers to create new business.