Please try to attend and promote the Telecom MS SOA Workshop

["Abbie Barbir" <abbieb@nortel.com>]

All,

Adopting SOA in Telecom Workshop, held at the OASIS Security Forum 30 September 2008 Ditton Manor, near London http://events.oasis-open.org/home/forum/2008/workshop

Hosted by the OASIS Telecom Member Section and sponsored by Alcatel Lucent, Nortel and IBM.

The advent of converged networks, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services and Business Process Modeling (BPM) provides a technological opportunity for modern telecommunications carriers and enterprises for developing intelligent network based services through the use of intelligent integration middleware.

Today, SOA which was devised to solve business problems associated with intra- and inter-company cooperation is renewing the promise of simplifying telecommunications service combination and orchestration. As such, Communication Enabled Applications (CEA) is emerging as an integral component of unifying IT and network based services and applications. In an SOA environment, there are mismatches between the requirements of the IT world and those of the telecommunications world in such areas as security, raw performance, service availability and important characteristic of telecommunications services such service level agreements (SLAs). Given the number and complexity of these mismatches, it is reasonable to assume that the task of integrating SOA in Telecommunications environment is challenging.

The "Adopting SOA in Telecom Workshop" aims to discuss the current limitations of adopting SOA in the Telecommunication field, including: 

* Providers Perspectives on SOA in Telecom

* Embedding Communications into IT Applications: A Vendor Perspective

* Challenges of Telecom Services in SOA Environment

* SOA Solutions in Telecom Today

* And a Look at Telecom Standards

Attendance at the Telecom Workshop is free with a Forum registration and also available separately. Registration details for the Telecom Workshop and Forum may be found online at:

http://events.oasis-open.org/home/forum/2008/registration