DA, BA, MA: State-of-the-Art Overview and Concepts for 3rd Party Developer Enabling in the Telecom and Internet Domains -- in cooperation: CDTM, Georgia Institute of Technology, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories

10.12.2009, Abschlussarbeiten, Bachelor- und Masterarbeiten

In order to develop a concept for 3rd Party Enabling it is necessary to generate an as complete as possible overview about current standards, solutions and best practices in the Internet and Telecom Domain. All major 3rd Party Enabling players need to be identified and an overview and detailed technical (Optional also business) comparison of their 3rd Party Enabling approach needs to be done. These players need to be clustered by their business domains – examples could be: Internet Companies, Telecom Companies, Software Vendors, … From this comparison a conclusion for the most promising 3rd Party Enabling solution for Telecom-Internet convergence can be made.

Problem Statement
The telecom industry is rapidly changing and telecom systems that had been closed proprietary systems for a long time shift towards a more open infrastructure in order to work together with new services and tools available on the internet such as Web (2.0) services and applications.
In order to specify and develop such an open infrastructure for telecoms several standardization organizations proposed different specifications from which the most promising one which most of the successful telecom companies plan to deploy is IMS.
IMS introduces an open, but completely new IP-based software architecture for telecom systems and specifies many features, services and applications that can be used by applications developers to develop next generation telecom and internet applications quickly and easy.
Unfortunately all these features, service and applications are still inside the Telecom-Domain and there are no solutions how to export (Inside-Out) them so external developers can use them. Furthermore, there are no solutions on how to import (Outside-In) services, features and applications from the Internet into the Telecom domain and how to deal with Telecom-Internet converged application development in general. The combination of Outside-In, Inside-Out and an Application Development Environment is called 3rd Party Enabling.

Approach and Work Packages:
- 3rd Party Enabling Players online research
- 3rd Party Enabling scientific literature review
- (optional) Interviews with selected 3rd Party Enabling Players
- Clustering of Players
- Comparison Model for 3rd Party Enabling based on scientific and online research
- Comparing all approached and best practices and concluding with the most promising
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Previous Work and Literature:
- DETECON study on 3rd Party Enabling
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Kontakt: Christian Menkens - menkens@cdtm.de

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