OREANDA-NEWS. The IBS Library series features a new book – the Russian edition of NGOSS Distilled: The Essential Guide to Next Generation Telecoms Management by Martin J. Creaner and John P. Reilly, reported the press-centre of IBS.

This book sets the direction and principles to be followed by a telecoms company in its technological development in order to keep sustainable positions in this highly competitive market environment.

This book is one of the first books in Russia discussing all components of NGOSS, the most advanced approach to building systems for telecoms companies. In this book the authors, who have been at the core of the NGOSS project, share the expertise accumulated by the TeleManagement Forum international organization. The book has absorbed a vast amount of materials prepared by TeleManagement Forum over the years of its existence, and each chapter distills hundreds of documents, providing the reader with a single source of in-depth knowledge on issues relevant to telecoms operator infrastructure development.

“The ability to present complicated issues in a way that is absorbing, as well as simple and clear, is certainly a talent. And that is something that the authors definitely possess. Theory passages and case studies are well selected and balanced, making one read the book from cover to cover and then try and use NGOSS technologies themselves. I hope that the breadth of the subject and the relevance of this knowledge will keep the authors interested for a long time to come and we will see another book on this subject, which would be at least as absorbing as this one”, said Vitaly Slizen, General Director, ZAO Sinterra.

With NGOSS principles and specifications generally accepted and widely applied across the industry, NGOSS sets common terms for communication between different parties involved in the communications market. Encompassing the key areas of business and technology, NGOSS brings dramatic improvements in the company’s internal environment for telecoms operators and provides uniformity of information interchange standards for equipment designers and cohesion and clarity of complex system requirements specifications for systems integrators.

“From a telecoms operator’s viewpoint, NGOSS is a comprehensive integrated structure for development, acquisition and deployment of operations and business support systems and software. Very soon, with actual convergence of the three industries of telecommunications, IT and media into one information industry, the relevance of the integrated system of commercial and technology elements, NGOSS , for telecoms operators will increase dramatically because this system will allow OSS/BSS systems to become fully compatible. This will enable operators to introduce new services faster and therefore gain higher average revenue per user”, comments Andrey Yakovkin, Director, Information Technologies Department, OAO North-West Telecom.

This book is for telecommunications professionals, CEOs, professionals involved in development and implementation of telecommunications software and everybody who applies or intends to apply NGOSS approaches.