A Design of Open Service Access Gateway for Converged Web Service

The paper describes how a telecom operator can leverage on Web services to provide integrated services using OSAG(Open Service Access Gateway). In addition it addresses how OSAG can be used along with Web services to enable a new set of converged Telecom services and Integrated Web service. The paper highlights the conceptual design and inter-operability interfaces of applications based on Converged Web service paradigm in Telco environment and the results of research and prototyping activities carried out within research center of HERIT inc. and Korea Telecommunication.