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An OSCA™ architecture characterization of network functionality and data

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Journal of Systems Integration

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This article demonstrates that the Bellcore OSCA™ architecture can serve as a basis for the metaarchitecture for software architectures that must support interoperability among functionality that traditionally has resided in operation systems and functionality that traditionally has resided in network elements (NE) (i.e., interoperability among operations functionality and network functionality). The need for this interoperability is driven by such telephone company business needs, as the need for customers to access operations capabilities spanning operations systems and NEs, the need for new service offerings to span operations systems and NEs, the need for a flexible environment for service development, and the need to manage all corporate data as a company resource. As a result, it is becoming beneficial to apply interoperability requirements to the network functionality that interfaces with operations systems. Therefore, it is reasonable to apply the OSCA architecture to network functionality. This article applies the OSCA architecture interoperability principles of separation of concerns to current and emerging network functionality. It demonstrates that this functionality can be partitioned among the three OSCA architecture layers of corporate data, processing, and user, and that there are a number of benefits to applying the OSCA interoperability principles to network functionality.

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Mills, J.A. An OSCA™ architecture characterization of network functionality and data. Journal of Systems Integration 1, 81–95 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02265067

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