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Understanding the Relationship Between SDP and the Cloud

Authors:
Stephane Maes

Keywords: Service Delivery Platforms, SDP, Cloud Computing, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Telecommunications, Telcos, SDF, OSS, BSS, Services

Abstract:
Notions of SDP (Service Delivery Platform) has been widely used in Telcos albeit without a common industry understanding. SDP projects have spearheaded next generations of Telco service provider (SP) services and their forays into new business models. Recently, Telco players tried very actively to understand how to take advantage of Cloud Computing to improve efficiencies or open new opportunities for them. Today most initial activities have often started disconnected from Consumer, VAS and Enterprise activities where SDPs are used. The main contributions of this paper are in explaining how to understand SDPs in the context of Cloud Computing and in positioning Cloud Computing and SDPs from an architecture for Telcos that want to reduce cost and complexity and increase efficiencies, scalability and availability of existing SDP and communication services as well as explore new business models with differentiators that could favor Telco SPs over other more conventional cloud providers. Such recommednatiosn and blueprints have never been discussed before as far as we know.

Pages: 159 to 163

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2010

Publication date: November 21, 2010

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4294

ISBN: 978-1-61208-106-9

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from November 21, 2010 to November 26, 2010