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• Richard Coles

  
   

  November 10, 2009 4:16 PM GMT

  If you search for OSS you will most likely find Open Source Software sites rather than Operational Support Systems. Which led me to this thought. A friend of mine, Al Bell, an executive with a longstanding Telco for many years now wants to strengthen his OSS. How should he decide between off the shelf products, custom in house developments and open source solutions?
  
  In particular I would like to hear your thoughts and experiences on the best application space for open source solutions within the OSS, where to leverage the most benefit from them, and the issues and risks they bring compared to the other options.
• Kent McNeil

  
   

  November 10, 2009 5:06 PM GMT

  GATIF have a product called WayPoint which is open source. I do not have any experience with it but if you visit their website there is documentation available for download.
  
  I would be interested to learn more about this myself.
  
  http://www.gatif.com/v15/english/home.html
• Chandrasekhar Vallabhaneni

  
   

  November 16, 2010 7:33 AM GMT

  
  
  In the Service Assurance front, there are couple of opensource projects like OpenNMS, RiverMuse Core. But mostly in the Network Management front.
  
  I am also looking for more to come in this OSS domain.
• Leslie Firlie

  
   

  March 12, 2012 9:08 AM GMT

  I would tend to steer towards off the shelf as much as possible and only do in-house development where you want to have the ability to make changes to the application level. Try to avoid the "heavy lifting" solutions that have to be customized from A to Z by the COTS vendor and find the ones where you can take control of the application evolution without affecting the guts. On the BSS side, more solutions are moving towards SaaS so that you are only dealing with the application, which I have to believe alleviates a lot of overhead and back office headache. I would like to see more of this on the OSS side except you run into the connection to the network and the infamous NE to EMS interfaces.