Experiences on building a distributed computing platform prototype for telecom network and service management

Open object-oriented distributed computing will be essential for the telecommunications business in the future. The most promising approach for the object-oriented distributed computing is the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) technology standardized by Object Management Group (OMG). CORBA forms the foundation for building applications constructed from distributed objects and for interoperability between applications in homogeneous and heterogeneous computing environments. The World Wide Web has grown to become one of the most popular services on the Internet. An integration of the Web and CORBA enable the benefits of distributed object computing while using existing Web resources. The integration of the two recognized network management protocol standards CMIP and SNMP, and CORBA technology, allows management applications to take advantage of distributed object computing as well as the standardized network management protocols. Nokia Research Center has launched a project to build a platform prototype on an object-oriented distribution infrastructure. The purpose of the prototype is to provide a framework which supports the creation, management and invocation of distributed telecom services.