1. © Atos ODS Inter-Operator TMN & OSS Workshop Prague, 23-24 March 1999 Security for the TMN X interface The integrator’s point of view Manuel Cabrera Silva, Atos-ODS mcabrera@atos-ods.com

2. © Atos ODS Inter-Operator TMN & OSS Workshop Prague, 23-24 March 1999 Atos GROUP 9,400 collaborators, 5th largest in IT services in Europe Second highest IT services revenue in France and Germany 962 million Euros in total revenue 34 Centres in 13 Countries European leader in revenue in the Financial Sector and in Client Management Relations Leading provider of IT services for the European Commission High level of competitiveness in leading edge information technologies

3. © Atos ODS Inter-Operator TMN & OSS Workshop Prague, 23-24 March 1999 ATOS GROUP IN EUROPE United Kingdom 360 France 6,070 Spain, Portugal and Andorra 950 Benelux 140 Germany and Switzerland 900 Italy 1,080 33 offices in 12 european countries More than 9,400 collaborators

4. © Atos ODS Inter-Operator TMN & OSS Workshop Prague, 23-24 March 1999 ACTIVITIES AND MARKETS Activities Markets Facilities Management Integration & Engineering Multimedia Services 44% 25% 22% 9% Distribution Others Telecom. and media Banking & Finances Industry / Automotive / Transport 13% 7% 16% 43% 21% Share Holders France US UK Others 45% 25% 15%

5. © Atos ODS Inter-Operator TMN & OSS Workshop Prague, 23-24 March 1999 Atos ODS (SPAIN) 950 collaborators 41 million Euros of total revenue, 5.2 million Euros resulting from exploitation, 12.5 % profit Presence on the Iberian peninsula and Latin America Among the top 10 in IT Services in Spain High technological and functional specialisation Product Development Centre for banking and finance

6. © Atos ODS Inter-Operator TMN & OSS Workshop Prague, 23-24 March 1999 Atos ODS TELECOM DEPARTMENT Network Management (development, integration and consultancy on network management systems) Operation Support Systems (billing and customer care systems) Value-Added Network Services (GSM messaging & IN solutions) Security Consultancy (auditing, risk analysis and management) Real Time Systems (real time products and development for embedded systems) Geographic Information Systems (applied to network management, geo-marketing & vehicle fleet tracking)

7. © Atos ODS Inter-Operator TMN & OSS Workshop Prague, 23-24 March 1999 Atos ODS NETWORK MANAGEMENT AREA Network management systems development based on standards Integration of HP OpenView solutions (HP partner) Network management consultancy TMN/Tools distribution (DSET partner) NM Training courses and seminars

8. © Atos ODS Inter-Operator TMN & OSS Workshop Prague, 23-24 March 1999 P710 Atos ODS AND VERTEL PARTICIPATION Telefónica Management Application Telefónica Management Application CMO NETWORK BT Management Application BT Management Application Vertel Toolkit Vertel Toolkit Security Appl. Security Appl. Security Appl. Security Appl. Security Application & TE SH by Atos ODS TE SH BT SH BT SH by Vertel

9. © Atos ODS Inter-Operator TMN & OSS Workshop Prague, 23-24 March 1999 Dummy library 15/06 First release 1/09 Definitive release 1/10 USER SUPPORT MoSCA PROJECT PLAN DETAILED DESIGN DEVELOPMENT TESTING t

10. © Atos ODS Inter-Operator TMN & OSS Workshop Prague, 23-24 March 1999 EURESCOM SPECIFICATIONS High quality and detailed specifications Minimum number of ambiguities or errors Small refinements needed Configuration persistence, data types and other implementation issues not defined

11. © Atos ODS Inter-Operator TMN & OSS Workshop Prague, 23-24 March 1999 MoSCA DETAILED DESIGN Some design features: C/C++ Implementation as a library Embedded points of control Multiplatform: –HP-UX –Solaris –AIX –Linux Ease of use

12. © Atos ODS Inter-Operator TMN & OSS Workshop Prague, 23-24 March 1999 MoSCA DEVELOPMENT Limited and simple implementation of X.741 GUI development due to: –hard manual configuration –to satisfy our clients TCL/TK: –Low complexity –No license cost –Multiplatform –No complex GUI required

13. © Atos ODS Inter-Operator TMN & OSS Workshop Prague, 23-24 March 1999 MoSCA PERFORMANCE Fast installation (uncompress, link and run) Fast configuration (examples provided and user friendly GUI) Little overhead: less than 1% of total call time Short support response time Automated regression tests

14. © Atos ODS Inter-Operator TMN & OSS Workshop Prague, 23-24 March 1999 TE SECURITY HANDLER Need for non automatic connection management in agent role (ACM elsewhere) Existing management applications compatibility No problems when integrating with the Security Application After access-denial, supports association abort and no response

15. © Atos ODS Inter-Operator TMN & OSS Workshop Prague, 23-24 March 1999 SYSTEM TEST PHASE More than 30 test cases Minimum number of ambiguities found Time zones very far apart (California and Madrid) Unexpected X.25 card problems Interoperability limited to HP platforms

16. © Atos ODS Inter-Operator TMN & OSS Workshop Prague, 23-24 March 1999 ENTRUST AND GSS-API ENTRUST –Good technical support –Incomplete development documentation GSS-API –Easy to use –Easy to port to an object oriented development environment