TM Forum members take on the challenges of SDN, smart grid, digital health, CEM, cyber security and more with live demonstrations supported by companies: AT&T, Cisco, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, IBM, Microsoft, Northrop Grumman, Orange, Telefonica, among others
MORRISTOWN, N.J. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — October 7, 2013 — As industries converge and transform in the digital world, their journey is fraught with challenges—from how to innovate, design and build new services quickly, to how to operate them effectively and most importantly, monetize them. At Digital Disruption 2013, TM Forum’s renowned Catalyst demonstration projects showcase how the Forum’s work is being leveraged to create innovative solutions for smart grid, digital health, cyber security, enterprise services and more. Some of the world’s largest companies are involved in the projects, including: AT&T, Cisco Systems, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, IBM, Microsoft, Northrop Grumman, Orange, Telefonica, among others.
TM Forum’s Catalyst projects are rapid collaborative projects driven by Forum member companies. In just four months, enterprises, service providers and suppliers work together to create proof-of-concept solutions for today’s most pressing business, operational and IT challenges. Their work ultimately develops and enhances the Forum’s Frameworx suite of best practices and standards, helping the Forum’s 900-plus members reduce cost, risk and time-to-market.
TM Forum’s Digital Disruption (San Jose, Calif., Oct. 28-31) features 10 Catalyst projects in the TM Forum Zone, the place to explore everything the Forum has to offer. Within this zone, attendees can explore and network with companies from across the digital ecosystem, and see breakthrough demonstrations and the latest work underway at the Forum.
“Our unique Catalyst projects deliver rapid solutions to the challenges enterprises and service providers face when designing, implementing and operating digital services,” said Nik Willetts, chief strategy officer, TM Forum. “The projects demonstrated at Digital Disruption cover the full digital services journey from design through implementation to monetization, giving attendees keen insight into the digital services lifecycle, and proof that industry collaboration can deliver rapid, effective solutions.”
Digital Disruption’s Catalyst projects are organized into four main stages of the digital services lifecycle: Design, Implement, Operate and Monetize:
Design
Delivering Digital
Services
Two enterprise digital services scenarios demonstrate
delivery in several different software defined networking (SDN)
environments and a bank- and vendor-created platform that enables legacy
applications to be sold on-demand using SDN technology.
Champions: Commonwealth
Bank of Australia, Deutsche Telekom, Northrop Grumman, Orange, Telecom
Italia, Telefonica
Participants: CenturyLink, Cisco Systems,
NetCracker Technology, Syracuse University
eHealth – Curing the Complexity
Explore how overcoming
interoperability challenges for digital health can have immediate,
relevant and profitable impact on improving patient care.
Champions: China
Unicom, Orange
Participants: BaseN, Cisco Systems, Detecon
International, Ericsson, ISPM, TOA Technologies
Supporters:
Medpal Health Solutions, Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), Open mHealth
Smart Grid – Empowering the Digital Customer
Learn how
digital-enabled utilities can address customer experience and
operational challenges with new disruptive technologies and advanced
networking models.
Champions: Cisco Systems,
Hydro-Quebec
Participants: BaseN, Infonova GmbH, TOA
Technologies
Supporters: Ericsson, Integrated Architectures,
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
Implement
The ABCs of
Multi-Party Digital Services
Discover the critical APIs and
processes required to support B2B, B2C and B2B2X digital services
delivered and managed by multiple partners, companies or lines of
business.
Champions: Orange
Participants: AsiaInfo-Linkage,
Huawei, Infonova
Supporters: China Mobile
Performance, Quality and Experience: Focus on the Customer
See
how pro-active and dynamic measurement of performance and probe data can
be used to immediately improve customer experience – even before there’s
an issue.
Champions: Telecom Italia, Telefonica
Participants: HP,
Mycom International, TEOCO, Wipro Technologies
Operate
Enabling Digital
Services on a Converged Network
Learn how a digital service is
designed, deployed and operated in a multi-provider environment of both
wireline and wireless networks.
Champions: Deutsche Telekom,
Telecom Italia, Telefonica
Participants: Comarch, ZTE Corp.
Supporters:
Juniper Networks, Orchestral Networks
Leveraging Big Data for Customer Care and Cross Selling
Explore
how providers can leverage data to monitor, detect and interpret
technical device data and network experience issues to keep customers
happy and engaged, and cross/upsell.
Champions: Orange
Participants: Amdocs,
Attensity, TOA Technologies
Keeping the Horse Out of Troy – Minimizing Security Risks
Examine
new methods that can minimize security threats from a variety of mobile
apps and gaming applications used to gain audience intelligence and
engage with customers.
