Operational Support Systems for Mobile Networks

Abstract

OSS is a collection of software and hardware which forms integrated applications. It is a group of applications that provides network planning, network management and monitoring of faults. It also supports the communication services by improving the operational activities like automating operational tasks, implement them faster and finding out the results. OSS is generally used by service designers, network planners, engineering teams, operation architect. Together with Business Support Systems (BSS) it provides various end-to-end communication services, customer facing activities, ordering, billing and support.