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		<title><![CDATA[SLA Design and Service Provisioning for Outsourced Services]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1174401]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[In this work, a business-driven approach to designing Service Level Agreements in an e-commerce environment is proposed. In contrast to conventional SLA design approaches, the one proposed better captures the relationship between service provider and service client by considering the negative business impact business loss originated from IT infrastructure failures...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Arcor AG & Co. KG Achieves Highly Flexible Service Provisioning and Ensures Data Availability]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=382696]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Arcor wanted to develop an efficient and highly flexible service infrastructure to facilitate provisioning for the company's triple-play and other offerings and automate configuration of different network elements in the Arcor Internet Protocol IP network. The challenge was to enable self care and self provisioning capabilities and ensure transaction security,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[MPLS VPN Service Requests]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=387917]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The focus of IP Solution Center ISC is the service provided for a customer on the link between a customer CE and a provider PE. The service request model is the centerpiece of service provisioning. With the service request model, the ISC can capture the specified VPN service provisioning request,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Brasil Telecom Increases Efficiency of Network Management and Service Provisioning]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=340709]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[To meet Brasil Telecom's regulation-related business and service provisioning challenges, the company needed to improve its order management and provisioning processes and reduces its capital expenses and operating expenses. To operate more efficiently and gain market share, the company needed an inventory system with an architecture that could speed up...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Dynamic Service Provisioning Using GRIA SLAs]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1174383]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Service Level Agreements SLA include Quality of Service QoS constraints and bounds that have to be honoured by the service provider. To maximise the Service Provider revenue while satisfying the QoS requirements of the agreed SLAs it is important to be able to per-form a dynamic distribution of the service...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Oracle Communications Network Discovery Overview]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=992693]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Keeping the Operational Support Systems OSSs in synch with their live network improves data accuracy and increases their service provisioning success rate. Oracle Communications Network Discovery provides automated discovery of the network including network elements, physical resources, logical resources, and provisioned services. One can use Oracle Communications Network Discovery to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Design and Implementation of an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) Emulator Using Virtualization Techniques]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=344980]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Multimedia service provisioning in Packet-Switched networks is one of the most active research and standardization efforts nowadays, and constitutes the most likely evolution of current telecommunication networks. In this environment, the 3GPP IP Multimedia Subsystem IMS represents the service provisioning platform of choice for SIP-based content delivery in mobile and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Service Provisioning Through ESB]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=273166]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Similar to SOA, Enterprise Service Bus ESB is neither a technology nor a product in itself, but a platform, a set of tools, and a design philosophy. Using ESB, the user can deploy SOA components in an autonomous but federated manner. This allows easy growth for applications, application boundaries, and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[IEEE 802.16 Medium Access Control and Service Provisioning]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=108899]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper describes the IEEE 802.16 Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing OFDM and the 802.16 Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access OFDMA, Medium Access Control MAC protocols, both of which are key elements of the Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access Forum WiMAX deployments. The paper also discusses the types of provisioning and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2004 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Using BizTalk 2004 to Implement an SOA for Service Provisioning]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=142143]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This webcast will describe the process of building an Operational Support System OSS for a large telecom company in Europe. The solution was built on Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, the Microsoft .NET Framework and industry-standard XML Web Services. The OSS integrated several services that have been...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Provisioning of Broadband Telecommunication Services]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=167007]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[FastWeb, a member company of the E.Biscom group, is the leading provider of innovative broadband telecommunication services in Italy. The need to keep track of and coordinate all processes involved in customer acquisition, network development, building management and service activation, lead FastWeb to design and implement a Service Provisioning system....]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft Executive Circle Webcast: Using BizTalk 2004 to Implement an SOA for Service Provisioning]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=288598]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This webcast will describe the process of building an Operational Support System OSS for a large telecom company in Europe. The solution was built on Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, the Microsoft .NET Framework and industry-standard XML Web Services. The OSS integrated several services that have been...]]></description>
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