An Internet-Mobile Platform for NGN/IMS Applications

Parlay is an efficient and flexible approach that enables telecom operators to efficiently wrap up their network services and capabilities and allows third parties to flexibly access those services for deployment of new applications that drive consumption of network services. This paper describes an Internet-mobile platform for telecom applications based on Parlay X. Our solution aggregates resources from the Internet and Next Generation Network (NGN) IP Multimedia Network Subsystem (IMS) mobile networks to enable ``mashup'' service creation. Our solution uses the IBM Web Sphere software for Telecom (WsT) to implement Parlay service capability that accommodates service oriented architecture services. The WsT is connected to the NGN/IMS platform for network capability provisioning. Then we use the Group Accounting System (GAS) as an example to illustrate how a new service can be created in the WsT platform and how the WsT interacts with the application server and NGN/IMS to provide GAS services.