The mission of the Telecommunications PSIG is to foster the development, enhancement, implementation and use of OMG standards with the consideration of the business and information systems requirements of the Telecommunication industry and enablement of Telecom stakeholders in the digital services ecosystem.

Goals

• Promote the use of Model Driven Architecture (MDA), Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and other advanced IT technology approaches in the Telecom Industry.
• Link Business, Architecture and Technology Perspectives of ‘Telecom Business Services’, including Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Business Process Management (BPM) and Event-Driven Architecture (EDA).
• Promote the development of OMG standards in cooperation with other OMG subgroups to support the business process and information technology requirements relevant to the Telecom Industry;
• Communicate requirements from the Telecom Industry to all OMG subgroups as appropriate;
• Promote the use of OMG technologies as solutions to the needs of the Telecom Industry.
• Assist and advise the Liaison Subcommittee regarding its relationship with Telecom related Standards Organizations and Consortia;
• Develop use cases demonstrating the use of the OMG standards to help the Telecom Industry define consumer-oriented Telecom Business Processes (e.g. location, presence, calendar based services, Identity propagation)
• Evaluate RFI responses and technology submissions (e.g., RFP submissions, RFCs) in cooperation with other OMG task forces;
• Foster development and enhancement of OMG standards to accommodate the modeling needs of the Telecom Industry, including but not limited to information modeling and interchange.

Recent Accomplishments:

• Telecom Cloud Workshop, Dec. 2010
  • The workshop was designed to bring together experts from Telecom and Cloud Computing fields to explore opportunities and industry value-added activities to benefit the Cloud end-users (Government, Enterprise, Consumers).
  • The workshop was overwhelmingly supported by representatives from 20+ organizations, including SDOs (ATIS, ITU-T, DMTF, TM Forum, SNIA ….), Open Source Projects (OpenStack, OpenNebula, OW2, DeltaCloud), End Users (NIST, Open Data Center Alliance, TM Forum/Enterprise council and companies). Agenda and presentation slides can be found here.
• Formal adoption of the TelcoML Specification, Sept, 2011
  • TelcoML is to customize existing OMG SoaML specification for the Telecom domain. The goal is to provide a common abstraction layer to allow instrumentation of software development tools to utilize APIs defined by various SDOs, consortia such as the ones from OMA, GSMA, TM Forum etc.
  • The advantage of using TelcoML is to enable consistent behavior and interaction patterns for all SoA based telecom application implementation, regardless of the protocols it uses. It provides simplicity and governance for the Telecom application development
  • Beta specification is available here.

How to get involved:

Email Lists:

If you have any questions about adopted specifications, please feel free to contact the tech-editor. 
 

Current work in progress:

Four work areas have been identified for the Telecom PSIG for 1H2012:

• TelcoML FTF scope, requirements and development.
• Joint work program development with CSCC (Cloud Standards Customer Council) Telecom group
• Bring Telecom perspective and support the “Semantic Information Modeling for Federation (SIMF) RFP” ad/11-12-09
• Review and determine course of actions on contribution of “Universal Resource Description Language” telecom/11-12-06

Working Methods:

Telecom PSIG is a Special Interest group, therefore itself will not publish specification. Instead Telecom PSIG work with other OMG Domain or Platform task forces, such as MARS (Middleware and Related Services) , AD (Analysis and Design) and others to publish and develop RFIs an RFPs.

Upcoming Events:

March 19-23, 2012 - Reston, VA USA