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Communications Solutions Magazine
Formerly CTI Magazine

 

August 2000
XML: The Ideal Standard For OSS Interconnection
By David Spencer, Lumos Technologies, Inc.
The telecom industry has made a number of attempts to standardize on a single operation support system (OSS) interconnect method. Despite several efforts like Telecommunications Management Network (TMN) Q3 and Common Management Interface Protocol (CMIP), the industry has failed to produce a standard. David Spencer of Lumos Technologies suggests  the use of XML -- offering greater simplicity and flexibility.		 Online Exclusive

Communications Solutions August 2000

FEATURES
Communications Solutions 2000/2001 Buyer's Guide
Welcome to our 2000/2001 Buyer's Guide. What makes our directory stand out from the rest is that all of the listings are cross references, alphabetically by company name, and also by product/service category.

 PUBLISHER’S OUTLOOK
BLECS: I Want My MTU
Rich Tehrani, Publisher
BLECs (building local exchange carriers) are a hot new service provider model that takes advantage of broadband access to sign up whole buildings of subscribers at once. Rich interviews a couple of players in this market to get a feel for where things are headed.

TOM KEATING'S CC:
Staying On Top Tom Keating, Executive Technology Editor
Tom's efforts to stay on top of industry changes mean a lot of reading and a lot of vendor meetings. He goes over some of his most recent visits in this column.

DEPARTMENTS
Letters To The Editor

Analytical Views:  E-Commerce -- Been There, Done That
Brian Strachman, Cahners In-Stat Group
Drawing on similarities to the IVR model, Brian takes a look at what e-commerce really means, and how it might really look.

Inside Networking: Optical MANs -- Making Waves In eBusiness
By Tony Rybczynski, Nortel Networks
As e-business continues to develop, it places increasing demands on the back office systems and network. Tony takes a look at what could be the next step for the back office: optical MANs.

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