The Telecom MS is pleased to announce the 'Adopting SOA for Telecom' Workshop on 30 September 2008 at Ditton Manor, UK.

The advent of converged networks, Service-Oriented
Architecture (SOA), Web Services and Business Process Modeling (BPM) provides a
technological opportunity for modern telecommunications carriers and
enterprises for developing intelligent network based services through the use
of intelligent integration middleware. Today, SOA which was devised to solve
business problems associated with intra- and inter-company cooperation is
renewing the promise of simplifying telecommunications service combination and
orchestration. As such, Communication Enabled Applications (CEA) is emerging as
an integral component of unifying IT and network based services and
applications.

In an SOA environment, there are mismatches between the
requirements of the IT world and those of the telecommunications world in such
areas as security, raw performance, service availability and important
characteristic of telecommunications services such service level agreements
(SLAs). Given the number and complexity of these mismatches, it is reasonable
to assume that the task of integrating SOA in Telecommunications environment is
challenging.

The workshop, sponsored by Nortel & IBM, aims to discuss
current limitations of adopting SOA in the Telecommunication field. The
workshop seeks speakers from operators, vendors, enterprises, practitioners and
researchers in a wide range of topics concerned with SOA in telecommunication
industry.

View entire
workshop programme online at:  http://events.oasis-open.org/home/forum/2008/workshop