Protocol Mediation

New protocol technologies are constantly introduced to telecom management. But equipment and applications based on legacy protocols still need to be maintained. This introduces a N*N increasing number of interoperability issues to be solved, increasing the overhead for developing mediation software and adaptation solutions.

For the equipment vendor, the main benefit of this solution is the ability to offer integration with an existing management system at he's customers. This is an increasingly important competitive argument. The customers may only wants the equipment, not the whole package including yet another proprietary management system.

Also, the Management Application Vendors may benefit from such Protocol Mediators in that they can offer their solution to a broader range of vendor specific equipments without having to tailor their applications to each vendor - otherwise a monstrous maintenance overhead that may easily "pull the teeth" out of that vendor.

Solution

Q3ADE 3G offers a wide range of features to simplify the development of Protocol converters working in real time. Actually Q3ADE has been used several times to convert between two proprietary interfaces. In these chases the Q3 interface is not utilized explicitly. But Q3ADE still offers a very flexible and competitive environment for this kind of tasks.

As a general rule, the benefit of using protocol mediators increase as the system becomes more and more heterogeneous, i.e. that it consist of more and more different technologies.

Benefits

Using Q3ADE for implementing embedded protocol mediation provides you with the following benefits:

• Intermediate or embedded SW acting as "converter plugs"
• Allows an equipment vendor to plug into existing Management Applications
• Allows a management application vendor to abstract from vendor specific protocols
• Relevant in highly heterogeneous configurations

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