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Operational Support Systems

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ALSO CALLED: B/OSS, OSS, Network Operations Support Systems, Business & Operational Support Systems, BSS/OSS, BOSS, Operations Support Systems, Operation Support Systems, Business and Operational Support Systems, and Operation Support Software
DEFINITION: An operational support system (OSS) is a set of programs that help a communications service provider monitor, control, analyze and manage a telephone or computer network. As the traditional voice telephone systems converges with packet-oriented Internet traffic (including VoIP), broadband applications such as teleconferencing and DSL,  … 
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Recent Vendor Reports on Operational Support Systems
Using Classification to Manage Email Policy for the Enterprise
sponsored by Titus Labs
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 09 Nov 2007 | Published: 01 Jan 2006
SUMMARY: Email has historically been a weak link in organizational security. Classification and policy based strategies enable email to be managed more securely and effectively. Email classification is a technique for adding metadata and visual labels to email.

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A Common Core - ITIL Version 3.0 and CMMi-SVC
sponsored by Wipro Technologies
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 29 Oct 2007 | Published: 01 Oct 2007
SUMMARY: Learn how the capability maturity model for services (CMMi) has evolved out of a software maturity model to share common abilities with ITIL across software development and services to bridge business and IT gaps.

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OPERATIONAL SUPPORT SYSTEMS DEFINITION (continued): … An operational support system (OSS) is a set of programs that help a communications service provider monitor, control, analyze and manage a telephone or computer network. As the traditional voice telephone systems converges with packet-oriented Internet traffic (including VoIP), broadband applications such as teleconferencing and DSL, more sophisticated systems like OSS are needed activities like ordering and tracking network components (including IP addresses), usage and traffic patterns, billing and reporting.
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