Do You Speak Parlay? An Architect's Guide to Service Mediation Gateways and OSA Applications (BOOK)

This is the first book to examine in depth a new and growing technology for enabling a more rapid and cost-effective delivery of services based on telecoms networks. Since Parlay enables the development of services independent of the underlying technology of the network the subject matter will be of interest to professionals working both the wireline and wireless industries. The book tries to set up a context, bring out issues with today's deployments of service architectures, and then evolves towards a Parlay/OSA solution. The book examines the pontential of the technology from a number of points of view: business need, service development, service deployment... It provides a solid background on the development of the standard, use cases, architecture, deployment scenarios and advanced topics for further reading and so will be of interest to a wide audience, from Product Manager to Architect to Senior Network Engineer to Application Developer.