Lifecycle Services Orchestration Market: Worldwide Industry Analysis and New Market Opportunities Explored
Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO) is a set of established technology standards and products that offers management integration and orchestration among management software, network systems, and telecommunications IT software platforms such as operations support system (OSS) and business support system. LSO enables monitoring and service assurance and real-time automation for a wide range of network-based services. The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) has also introduced a reference architecture and framework for orchestrating the service lifecycle. It summaries functional management requirements and high-level operational threads to define how advanced services can be controlled and orchestrated. Orchestration encompasses diverse functions. These capabilities include fulfillment control, security policy, analytics, and assurance. An inter-carrier overlay approach, which connects proprietary BSS/OSS belonging to dissimilar operators using an inter-carrier service gateway (ICSG),...