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BEinGRID: Service Oriented Infrastructures: a Telecommunications Industry Perspective
(90 mins)
Theo Dimitrakos (BT Group)
Information Society and Media Commissioner Viviane Reding said in a past press release "Grid and Service-Oriented Architectures are enabling technologies for economy-wide productivity and growth. They will make today's information and communication technology infrastructures more flexible and agile, enabling businesses to adapt and innovate faster, so as to meet new needs".
Over the recent years the Grid computing paradigm has gone through a first critical transition that brought about its fusion with the Service Oriented Architectures into what is now commonly referred to as the Service Oriented Infrastructure paradigm.
Such network-centric environments should consist of interoperating elements ranging from small devices up to supercomputers, to serve communities ranging from individuals to whole industries, and should cover data, information and knowledge.
In this session we will present a telecommunications industry perspective into the uptake of Grid Computing and, more generally, Service Oriented Infrastructure by businesses.
Agenda:
Jonathan Legh-Smith
ICT Venture Leader, BT Group CTO
“An introduction to the BT Service Oriented Infrastructure�
Service Oriented Infrastructure builds on top of previous advancements in Distributed Systems, Grid Computing, Web Services and SOA in order to offer an appealing paradigm for the network-centric Enterprise. The technologies and capabilities which come together under the banner of the Service Oriented Infrastructure (SOI) offer a solution to both long-standing business needs and also some which are particular to our time.
The Service Oriented Infrastructure (SOI) approach allows networked enterprises to use SOA infrastructure capabilities and resources via the network and to aggregate them in tailored solutions that fit their needs and adapt to their growth pattern. In addition to BT, companies such as Capgemini use the SOI term and more recently Microsoft launched their own initiative of an SOI to underpin Microsoft-based SOA deployments. This talk provides an overview of the SOI programme in British Telecom.
Jorge Juan Villaverde
Architecture Community Leader and CTO, Capgemini Spain
“Roadmap to SOI�
Service Oriented Enterprises business needs has to been addressed with a strong partnership with IT. The benefits of the new architectural model proposed by SOA can be incremented with the new role of the traditional IT infrastructures inside the Service Oriented Infrastructure (SOI) proposition. This new role links IT infrastructures with business, building the Network-Centric Enterprise. The new telecommunications SDP platforms will growth in value with the adoption of the SOI paradigm.
The adoption of the Service Oriented Infrastructure (SOI) approach needs a roadmap that has to be built taking in account several streams. Capgemini SOI vision has conduct the development of a framework that accomplished the adoption of SOI in the Enterprise.
Vic Morris
CEO, Vordel
"Addressing Security, Governance and Performance Issues with an XML Gateway as part of a Service Oriented Architecture"
An SOA provides unprecedented flexibility in addressing 21st century telecommunications’ application requirements, but with increased flexibility comes challenges of security, governance and performance.
Provisioning of new services to customers is the lifeblood of telecoms organizations. In the mobile telecoms world, for example, XML and Web Services technologies underpin Service Delivery Platforms (SDP), which enable rapid provisioning of new services [mobile games, sports, news, and ringtone services] to customers. In the deregulated fixed line telecoms world the "unbundling of the local loop" has knock on effects requiring number portability across providers, and of course the growing use of VOIP services creates many challenges for service operators that still need to provide emergency call services. A service oriented architecture (SOA) can provide an architectural framework to more easily address these requirments.
To deploy an effective SOA, requires the wide scale use of Web Services technologies, and an underlying network infrastructure that makes extensive use of XML. However, in so doing the very open nature of the resultant networks, and the verbose character of the XML messages leads to significant challenges in addressing issues of security, governance and performance.
This presentation will describe the role of XML Gateways and their architectural deployment to address these concerns and illustrate their use. The presentation also includes case study examples from real-world telecommunications deployments.
Location: Barcelona A
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| | Slides (PDF): Jonathan Legh-Smith - BT - BEinGRID Industry Days |
| | Slides (PDF): Jorge Villaverde - Capgemini - BEinGRID Industry Days |
| | Slides (PDF): Vic Morris - Vordel - BEinGRID Industry Days |