NICE, France – The heart of the TM Forum Live show this year was the Catalyst demonstrations that allowed companies to show off the innovations they have been working on in categories such as Network Function Virtualization and big data analysis. On Thursday, the Forum handed out awards for the best of the best.
The most innovative Catalyst went to a digital health solution that was created by Orange, Verizon, Ericsson and BaseN.
“This Catalyst demonstrates how partners can leverage TM Forum Open Digital APIs for Catalog Management, Order Management, and Billing, along with the effective use of the new Open Digital business canvas to create multi-partner, M2M based healthcare solutions,” according to the TM Forum newsroom.
The most significant contribution to Frameworx award went to a solution called “Dynamic APIs for the Connected Carrier.” This solution was pulled off by a collaborative effort among AT&T, Verizon, Orange, BT, Vodafone and NTT, with participation from EnterpriseWeb, Comverse and DGIT, and support from NBN Co, Qosmos.
The TM Forum Newsroom describes the solution like this: “This Catalyst shows that TM Forum Open Digital APIs can be used to integrate with an NFV MANO Orchestration for Domain Orchestration and leveraged to support diverse marketplaces where products are routinely composed of partner components.”
The Best Adoption of Frameworx Award went to AT&T, Orange, KDDI R&D Laboratories, IBM, Nokia, Cisco, Tech Mahindra and Hewlett-Packard for their solution “Recover First, Resolve Next: Closed Loop Control for Managing Hybrid Networks.”
“This Catalyst project demonstrates the move toward closed-loop control of hybrid networks (traditional and virtualized),” the TM Forum Newsroom said. “It brings out challenges and demonstrates potential solutions relevant for CSPs operating hybrid mobile networks such as automated fault recovery and SLA-driven closed-loop control to remediate service performance issues.”
“The reason we chose this Catalyst, when we look at the business challenges that [the] typical mobile operator is facing, so if you look at this today we’ve got a mobile packet core expansion that is happening rapidly because of smartphones and IoT coming through,” Tech Mahindra’s OSS group practice head, Achyuth Sathyagiri, said in a demonstration of the solution.
Finally, the Best New Catalyst Award went to BT, The Agile Fractal Grid, BearingPoint, The Open University, Cloudsoft, The University of Bedfordshire and MK:Smart for their solution “Enabling the Smart City Digital Ecosystem.”
“The Catalyst projects showcased at TM Forum Live this year were incredibly innovative, addressing new concepts and the progress of new technologies such as network functions virtualization, policy-based management, customer centricity, smart energy and eHealth,” said Nik Willetts, chief digital officer of TM Forum. “These Catalysts bring together the best of the best in the industry, and our sincere congratulations to the winners and to all those who participated for their outstanding work.”
There were 19 Catalyst solutions competing for the awards.
