Management World 2010 to feature dedicated Government & Defense track focused on communications efficiency in an “anywhere, anytime, anyhow” environment
MORRISTOWN, NJ—May 5, 2010 - Following the recent announcement of DISA’s confirmation as a finalist for the TM Forum Excellence Awards 2010, the TM Forum today confirmed that the Government and Defense sector will have a high profile at this year’s Management World conference (May 18-20, Nice, France). “Communications efficiency in an anywhere, anytime, anyhow environment” will be the over-riding theme for a dedicated Defense Spotlight, alongside live technology demonstrations from this year’s Defense Catalyst participants.
Now in its second year, the Defense Spotlight at Management World will look at “Optimizing Communication Efficiency through Standards” and “Policy Based Network Management and Autonomic Behavior.” The first track will include two SATCOM-based presentations, “Integrating SATCOM and Spectrum Management into Standards-Based NetOps” and “Global Mobility and Broadband Communications on the Move” by DISA and Boeing respectively, along with a case study presentation by Thales Communications on their usage of TM Forum Frameworx and other standards to optimize network management efficiency. The second track will include presentations on the theme of leveraging policy for efficiency while managing the balance between human control and network automation.
Management World 2010 will also feature a new Defense Catalyst demonstration, part of TM Forum’s rapid-development collaboration program. The project, “Rapid Communications Deployment – Multi-National Preparedness in Crisis Situations” is being championed by the NATO C3 Agency – with participants including DAX Technologies, Progress Software and IBM, along with supporters including SquareHoop, TNO, and Booz Allen Hamilton.
The project uses the Haitian Earthquake response effort to demonstrate the need to rapidly establish communication services across a multi-national coalition. The live Catalyst demonstration will tackle concepts such as dynamic discovery of services and creation of complex service value chains based on discovered elementary national contributions; secure Service Level Management information exchange across the coalition partners on a multi-lateral basis, and automated end-to-end service management.
TM Forum’s standards and best practices in the areas of Service Level Agreement Management, Security Management, Policy Management, and Active Catalogue will be applied to the solution.
Quotes:
Tamas Halmai, Principal Scientist NATO C3 Agency
“Current military operations require close co-operation between coalition partners in order to smoothly and rapidly establish complex end-to-end ICT services spanning through heterogeneous national sub-networks. Once services are delivered it is equally important to build very close Service Level Management relationship amongst the involved service operators (military or commercial) to maintain high-level service quality.
Without standardised management solutions and interfaces it would not be possible to achieve these goals. Therefore the NATO C3 Agency is strongly supporting this TM Forum DIG Catalyst and pleased to work with industry on proving and maturing the federated service management concept what Nations shall be able to reuse later on.”
Christy Coffey, Head of Government and Defense Market Center, TM Forum
“It’s been almost two years since we launched the Government/Defense Market Center in the TM Forum. This Management World event is a major milestone for our community as it brings together industry experts presenting topics that we’re actively launching projects, such as Cyber/Security Management and Policy Based Network Management, along with the recognition of DISA as a finalist for the TM Forum Excellence Leadership Award. This Catalyst Project brings together TM Forum standards and vendor COTS products to demonstrate how to more rapidly build communication infrastructure needed to support crisis situations which are all too familiar.”
Key Facts:
- DISA is the first government entity to be recognized as a finalist for a TM Forum Excellence Award. They were selected as a finalist in the Leadership Award Category, largely because of the leadership shown toward international collaboration and the introduction of new work in the areas of Security Management, Policy-Based Management and SATCOM Management.
- TM Forum’s Defense Interest Group, launched in 2009, serves as a global industry community whose primary purpose is collaboration on key industry management issues of special relevance to defense and the application of standards-based methodologies, processes and tools.
- TM Forum’s Government and Defense Community consists of more than 70 companies including: US DoD/DISA, MITRE, NATO C3 Agency, UK MOD DSTL, Boeing, Booz Allen Hamilton, Thales Communications, EADS, Logica, and others
- TM Forum’s Management World 2010 conference will be held at the Acropolis Convention Centre, Nice, France, May 18-20, 2010. For further details on the conference visit Management World 2010 at
www.tmforum.org/mw2010- Now in its 11th year, Management World attracts more than 3,000 attendees with more than 55% of delegates holding senior management and executive positions;
- The 2010 conference features more than 200 influential speakers through a range of interactive presentations, panel debates and case studies, across six conference summits: New Content & Innovative Services; Cloud Services; Successful Business Transformation; Driving Operational Excellence; Revenue Management & Profitability and Excellent Customer Experience;
Complementing the conference are more than 10 TM Forum training courses to help companies adopt TM Forum best practices and standards;
