IG1141 Procurement & Onboarding of Virtualization Packages v4.0.1

Onboarding automation has been cited by multiple service providers, such as AT&T, Orange, Vodafone, Verizon and others, as an unexpectedly difficult challenge and a major business priority for pragmatic resolution.

This document highlights the challenges of onboarding automation due to:

  • Different viewpoints of service providers’ operations lifecycle and vendor technology lifecycle.
  • Lack of standardized taxonomy and onboarding scope to clearly define the responsibilities and to automate the hand offs between suppliers and buyers.
  • Lack of standardized VNF/IT services model, resulted in fragmented markets, products and open source implementations.
  • Immature service providers’ internal OSS/BSS transformation to respond effectively to the virtualization impact.

General Information

Document series: IG1141
Document version: 4.0.1
Status: TM Forum Approved
Document type: Standard
Team approved: 15-Jan-2020
IPR mode: RAND
Date modified: 01-Feb-2020

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