Service Delivery Platform

A Service Delivery Platform ( SDP ) makes certain services available to applications as a uniform programming interface . It represents a sub-area of the next generation networks .

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A modern data infrastructure in the field of mobile services consists of SMS centers, MMS centers, streaming servers , audio and video servers , among other things . The enabling services form the basis of this data infrastructure . This requires infrastructure resources such as billing gateways, payment gateways, messaging gateways or location-based services . In order to be able to implement applications from the areas of m- and e-commerce , information and entertainment services, standardized programming interfaces as well as protection and security mechanisms are required. These are provided by enabling services. For an effective conception, implementation and operation of these services, high-performance components must be provided. They form the basis of innovative service delivery platforms.

Such an SDP thus becomes the interface between the applications and the service infrastructure based on the Operations Support System (OSS) and Business Support System (BSS). The OSS consists of systems that make it possible to plan, analyze, monitor, expand, maintain and troubleshoot networks and service infrastructures. A BSS offers functions that are logically located above the OSS, such as accounting , customer relationship management , billing, content management , content delivery, digital rights management , fraud management , provisioning , rating and service activation.

In order to standardize their infrastructure, network operators and, in particular, mobile communications companies have been merging existing enabling services into service delivery platforms since 2000. The drivers for this development are ever faster advancing requirements through innovation, mobility, miniaturization and improved interaction.

With an SDP, access to the core elements of a network can be standardized, thus the development of new services is simplified and a faster and more efficient innovation cycle is achieved.

List of service delivery platforms

Appium's XWay - an SDP programmed in Java, which actually only offers an application server. However, the restricted version for developers - called GBox - contains a simple network simulator (NSim). With NSim it is possible to develop and test Parlay -based telecommunications applications. NSim does not support all Parlay interfaces - and some only incompletely. The GBox runs on Linux as well as Windows from version 4.0 and provides plugins for Eclipse , which should enable easy entry.
Mobicents - an open source JAIN SLEE project.
Rhino - Commercial JAIN SLEE project from Open Cloud
Convergent Service Platform - Commercial JAIN SLEE project by jNetX