Role of OSS/BSS in Telecom Industry
OSS/BSS |
The Operations
Support System (OSS) is a computer system that telecommunication service
providers generally utilise to better manage their networks. It's also used for
provisioning services, which involves setting up the network to accommodate
services and customers, as well as maintaining customer support.
Customer-oriented operations like as billing, order administration, customer
relationship management (CRM), and call centre automation are also handled by a
Business Support System (BSS). In
its most basic form, OSS/BSS, also known as B/OSS, entails OSS handling orders
and then providing service assurance information to BSS.
According to Coherent
Market Insights, The Asia Pacific & global OSS/BSS
Market was valued at US$ 65.9 Mn in 2020 and is forecast to reach a
value of US$ 228.3 Mn by 2028 at a CAGR of 16.8% between 2021 and 2028.
The phrase "operational
support systems" (OSS) refers to the information processing systems
that operators utilise to run their communications networks. These solutions,
which were once known as Telecommunication Network Management tools, are now
far more advanced. Customers, services, resources, processes, and activities
may all be coordinated through them. They aid operators in the design,
construction, operation, and maintenance of communications networks.
Traditionally, network-facing or network-operations-facing functionality was
provided by OSS. This comprises defect and performance management (assurance),
customer activations (fulfilment), asset/inventory/configure management,
network security, and so on.
Traditional business and/or customer-facing functionality is
referred to as business support systems
(BSS). These technologies enable a company to communicate with its
customers (e.g., Customer Relationship Management or CRM), develop offerings
for them (e.g., Products / Services), bill them (e.g., Billing and Rating), and
conduct cross-carrier transactions (settlements, point-of-interconnect).
OSS/BSS operate together to enable network operators
to provide services to large numbers of users on some of the world's most
complex machines, worldwide telecommunications networks.
These procedures have been undertaken manually from the
early days of telecommunications carriers (businesses that provided
telecommunications services such as telephone). Carriers began to leverage the
processing power of computers with the introduction of programmes to assist
them manage their huge networks and subscriber databases. The capability of
these early software programmes was limited. Different business divisions
within the carriers, on the other hand, quickly sought to integrate them in
order to boost efficiency and data sharing.
A consumer, for example, would place an order and their
information would be recorded in a single system. The designers would then
enter the customer's exact design configuration into another system before
implementing it into the telephone exchange. In this case, the automatic
sharing of information between systems is known as flow-through provisioning
but requires significant integration effort
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