FEATURE: DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
provide increased automation of the
services being provided to its customers.
Learning from data centres
What will be essential in making this a reality
is the adoption of practices currently used in
the data centre environment.
In today’s ultra-connected world, the telecom
industry’s highly valuable infrastructure is
critical to ensuring the delivery of efficient
and reliable communication and information
sharing. This spans not just millions of devices,
but billions, with endless locations being
reached and serviced.
With so much at risk, it is essential that
telecom networks are technically stable
and services continue uninterrupted. The
introduction of new technologies and
open source initiatives potentially create
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Forum’s mission remains constant; build
on the success of what has been achieved
and focus on revenue generation and cost
savings. That is exactly why it has developed
its OB-BAA architecture, designed to increase
the speed and ease at which operators can
deploy new, standardised and automated
cloud-based access infrastructures.
A new era with OB-BAA
By specifying Northbound Interfaces
(NBIs), core components and Southbound
Adaptation Interfaces (SAI), BAA
creates the possibility of pulling differing
access device types, including legacy
implementations, under a single network
and service management and control
umbrella – opening them up to key
management elements such as SDN
management and control, and Element
Management Systems.
Robin Mersh, CEO of the Broadband Forum
IN TODAY’S ULTRA-CONNECTED
WORLD, THE TELECOM INDUSTRY’S
HIGHLY VALUABLE INFRASTRUCTURE
IS CRITICAL TO ENSURING THE
DELIVERY OF EFFICIENT AND
RELIABLE COMMUNICATION AND
INFORMATION SHARING.
a risk to this stability and reliability as they
have neither ‘marinated’ yet in the field,
nor have they been created in traditional,
methodical development environments.
However, operators can’t afford to wait.
They must find ways to seamlessly migrate
their existing network to a next-generation
architecture and yet do so without
disruption. In addition, operators must also
plan for long-term co-existence to protect
investments and local conditions, while
infrastructures also need to be agile and
capable of responding to rapidly emerging
software-defined access models.
As operators look to take advantage of
these innovative developments, Broadband
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Taking accelerated migration to cloud-
based access networks to the next level, the
recently published Release 2.0 of OB-BAA
expands the breadth of vendors and network
configurations capable of leveraging its
ability to facilitate co-existence, seamless
migration and adaptation to an increasingly
wide variety of software-defined access
technologies and implementations.
Additionally, it also expands the types
of proprietary access nodes that can be
managed and controlled via the BAA layer.
In addition, Release 2.0 allows the
deployment of standard adapters that
come with the platform and device-specific
adapters that are unique to each vendor’s
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