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Administrative Information
Name of the testbed:	Open SOA Telco Playground
Name of the principal organisation operates the Testbed:	Fraunhofer FOKUS
Type of organisation:	Academic institute
Address of principal office of the testbed:	Fraunhofer FOKUS, Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 31, 10589 Berlin
Name of administrative contact person:	Sebastian Wahle
	Tel (administrative):00493034637365
	E-mail (administrative):sebastian.wahle@fokus.fraunhofer.de
Name of technical contact person:	Sebastian Wahle
	Tel (technical):00493034637365
	E-mail (technical):sebastian.wahle@fokus.fraunhofer.de
Permanent employees:	yes
Number of employees:	7
Name of the principal organisation that operates the testbed:	Fraunhofer FOKUS
Type of organisation:	Academic institute
Principal area of activity:	Research
Principal sector of activity:	Telecommunications

Technical Information
Brief description of the testbed:
Open testbeds have ever since played a major role for our research activities in terms of result validation and prototype development. The term “Playground” was introduced to hide the complexity of such a laboratory even in its name. Our aim is to facilitate the usage of latest technologies in the field of IMS, NGN, SOA, and IPTV. We want to provide an easy and early access, especially for smaller players that enable them to bring their ideas to life. It is OPEN in a sense that it is in a constant process of evolving. It is open to new partners, new components, new technologies, as well as new concepts and paradigms. It is SOA (Service Oriented Architectures) centric. This means that it follows general SOA principles such as loosely coupled components, service orchestration, etc. It is Telco oriented because it provides APIs and network abstraction layers that allow mashup applications to make use of underlying Telco network features in a controllable manner. This is especially interesting in the context of Web 2.0 applications that integrate offerings from different providers. Offering chargeable Telco network features such as voice calls, instant messages, location and presence status, etc. towards web applications enables a broad range of new business models. It is a PLAYGROUND. We see a Playground as a technology focused test environment, where we can "play" around with the latest technology. However, this is more than something to toy around with. It is a mature testbed, a test laboratory, where benchmarking, conformance tests and interoperability tests are carried out for our partners, and where components resulting from own development as well as partner components can be deployed and operated. The Open SOA Telco Playground is the north bound extension of the FOKUS Open IMS Playground founded in 2004. As the IP Multimedia System (IMS) is considered today as the unifying architectural framework for the provision of seamless IP based services on top of converging networks and the south bound foundation for many Service Delivery Platforms (SDPs), the Open SOA Telco Playground provides the possibility to experience a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) on top of converging networks. However, this vendor independent playground is not only limited to Next Generation Networks, but also supports the provision of services on top of legacy fixed and mobile telecommunication networks as well as the next generation Internet. The major focal point of the Open SOA Telco Playground is on the provisioning of telecom oriented service capabilities based on state of the art SOA principles to an open set of business domains. This vendor and provider independent technology playground represents an open testbed for research and experiencing and validating the development, orchestration, provisioning, execution, and management of converging Next Generation Network and future Internet applications based on SOA principles. More information can be found here.
Classification:	NGN testbed, IMS testbed, SOA testbed, Web2.0, Telco
Components:	Service Broker, OSS, BSS, Enterprise Service Bus, ESB, Service Registry, Identity Enabler, Identity Management, Web2.0 Enabler, PEEM, SCIM, Policy Enforcment, P-CSCF, S-CSCF, I-CSCF, HSS, IMS Client, MGW, Media Server, Application Server, AS, SIPSEE, XDMS, Presence Server, GBA, BSF, NAF, OCS-X, ParlayX Gateway
Access networks:	WiFi,Ethernet,xDSL,3G/UMTS
Remote secure access:	VPN,IPSec,SSH
Application keywords:	SMS, VoIP, Streaming, Conferencing, Call, Internet, Messaging, E-Mail, Presence, QoS, click2dial, IPTV, mashup, Web2.0, SOA, Orchestration, Service Broker, ESP, OpenID, Cardspace, Liberty Alliance, Servlets, HTTP, SIP, Converged Servlets, Web Services
Testing keywords:	Conformance,Functionality,Interoperability,Performance,Benchmarking,Measurement,Other
Testing resources:	TTCN Simulation Tool, SIP Tools, SIP Nuke, Benchmarking, Network Measurement
Main standards:	3GPP, ETSI, TISPAN, OMA, IEEE

Operational information
Description of the services offered:
Based on our Open SOA Telco Playground and our long experience in this field, we are offering to operators, integrators, vendors, and application developers: Onsite SOA technology overview tutorials System and service concept and design reviews Roadmap consulting and feasibility studies Proof of concept implementations Design and implementation of dedicated SOA Telco components and services SOA Telco testbed deployments and interconnections Interoperability and benchmark tests of SOA Telco solutions
Planned evolution of the technologies used and services offered:
Offer open Internet service environments while keeping the control over the network infrastructure and network capabilities at the operator. Open APIs with policy-based control mechanisms.
Objectives of the testbed:
As the IP Multimedia System (IMS) is considered today as the unifying architectural framework for the provision of seamless IP based services on top of converging networks and the south bound foundation for many Service Delivery Platforms (SDPs), the Open SOA Telco Playground provides the possibility to experience a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) on top of converging networks. However, this vendor independent playground is not only limited to Next Generation Networks, but also supports the provision of services on top of legacy fixed and mobile telecommunication networks as well as the next generation Internet. The major focal point of the Open SOA Telco Playground is on the provisioning of telecom oriented service capabilities based on state of the art SOA principles to an open set of business domains. This vendor and provider independent technology playground represents an open testbed for research and experiencing and validating the development, orchestration, provisioning, execution, and management of converging Next Generation Network and future Internet applications based on SOA principles.
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Target market:
Telecommunication Industry, Operators, Application Developers, Integrators, Academia
Unique offering:
This testbed integrates all necessary components for building advanced Web2.0 applications making use of Telco network capabilities. The latest example of this is a Facebook IMS/NGN application offering voice calls, messaging, location, presence, feeds, geo-tags, maps and more to the facebook community. This demo was implemented based on the infrastructure of the Open SOA Telco Playground in less than 6 weeks. We believe that this is unique. Furthermore, we have developed the Open Source IMS Core and build the community around it. http://www.openimscore.org/ We employ the developers and can provide first hand know-how. We are an independent research organisation, no vendor lock-in. For most of the components we provide two solutions: our own developments for which Open Source licenses are available (Application Server, XDMS, Presence Server, IMS Client, etc.) commercial products from our partners
Funding model:	Project based
Access policies to the testbed:	Open access
Other access policy:
Intellectual property handling:	We have NDAs with most of our partners.
Repository of test results:	no
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General comment:
Follow this link to the website of the Open SOA Telco Playground.
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