Provisioning software enables activation of new subscribers and services in telecommunications network.
When operators have multi-service offerings with new features and the network contains a growing number of complex network elements and content and services platforms.
Provisioning has become an elaborated process chain, which touches on numerous network elements and application servers.

Capabilities

• Rollback
• Retry factors
• Subscriber profile
• Routing
• Multiple targets
• Duplicate operation suppression and queue prioritization

Supports

• Interface protocols: X25, Q3, CMISE, HTTP, X29,FTP
• Network element : Huawei, Siemens, Alcatel, or Ericsson

NT-Provisioning Architecture

• The Invoker Adapter’s job is to accept Orders from Invoker systems and inject them into the pMD workflow.
• Interface : HTTP and FTP.
• IIP Generator generates the IIP syntax base on orders.
• Distributor distributes response to invoker system
• The Dispatcher dispatches Networkers to process jobs which represent subscriber Orders
• Historical Subscriber Repository
• The Networker’s job is to provision a single Order for an Invoker System
• Agent Adapter is an interface to an Agent system
• The Order Worker is the last station for a Provlet
• Synchronizer allows operators to audit or rebuild the Subscriber Database directly from Operational Network Element queries

Service Provisioning Engine:

• Functions
  • Receive simple services provisioning request from business applications.
  • Translate and validate service request into specific NE command based on defined Service Rule and Subscriber Service Profile.
  • Maintain Service Rule Repository and Subs Service Profile Repository.
  • Perform and monitor service provisioning execution including error handling mechanism (e.g. rollback and retry scenario).
• Benefits
  • Simplify service provisioning process flow.
    • No round-trip transactional process.
    • Only one request for each service to related network element.
    • Uniform service logic applicable for all related business applications.
  • Prevent repeated service request command.
  • Flexibility in handling new/change of service.
  • Flexibility in handling new/change of NE.
  • Request timing and prioritization.
  • Ensure subscriber profile is consistent with NE (Subs Service Profile).
  • Provide reliable subscribers service data.