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Open Source Telecommunications


Open Source Telecommunications can be a reality today. In emerging the markets like India, the need of the hour is to create an environment for inclusive growth. Since much of India lives in small towns and villages, and also a low ARPU (Average Revenue Per User) is expected. A low cost telecommunications is needed for rural India. An end-to-end open source telecom will reduce the price. And, also it can foster a support and development community that will help maintaining the telecoms network operations.
Vision:
To create an end-to-end standards based open source reference implementation that can inter-operate and co-exist with commercial standards based products.
Standards
ITU (International Telecommunication Union) is the mother standards body in telecoms. However, post 2G, the leadership position shifted to ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute). The 3G standards was handed over to 3GPP, which has recently (11 December 08) completed 3G LTE (long Term Evolution) standards. Other standards bodies that have significant influence are Parlay, TMForum (NGOSS, eTOM) and OMA. IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) an all IP (Internet Protocol) leverages IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force). The overall LTE (Long Term Evolution) Architecture is described in 3GPP TS 23.002 version 8.5.0 Release 8. This is a MUST READ SPECS. 3GPP protocol has a mapping with IETF.


Open Source Telecom Stack
These components are under consideration, however other viable alternatives exist.
Component:
Usage:

  1. Sailfin                                                                                                                                            SIP server for signaling

     2.   MySQL
Database for various DB requirement like HLR, CDR store, Billing store
    3.  Open ESB
EAI and Parlay-X API also for NGOSS processes (using BPEL SE)
      4.OpenSSO
Federation and Single Sign On
     5.OpenSolaris
SCTP (Steram Control Transmission Protocol) stack
     6.OpenPortal
Customer Service portal
     7.OpenBloX
AAA (Authentication, Authorization and Accounting )
     8.OpenNMS
Network Management System
    9.jBilling
Billing and mediation
    10.OpenCDS
Content Delivery and Aggregation (VAS, Value Added Service)
     11.OpenSS7
SIGTRAN
     12.GNURadio
SDR (Software Defined Radio)
     13.Pentaho
BI (Business Intelligence) & Reporting
      14.Ofbiz
Open Source ERP
      15.OpenTaps
CRM based on Ofbiz
       16.OpenSAF
HA (High Availability) middleware
        17.OpenIMSCore
IMS Core network
        18.FreeSWITCH
TISPAN MGF


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