Telcordia® COMMON LANGUAGE® Information Services
An information infrastructure that can serve as your centerpiece for effective collaboration in an ever evolving, competitive and converging communications landscape.Nearly every service provider activity is driven by the exchange of information, whether it relates to business processes supporting asset management, network management, services management or interconnection.
As a result, service providers recognize that inadequate management of information impacts all aspects of their business and can lead to:
- Inability to make informed business decisions
- Expensive integration and evolution of all systems
- Poor service activation and service assurance intervals
- Difficulty maintaining competitive position
- Difficulty complying with reporting and regulatory mandates
- Overspending on equipment and network capacity
- Customer churn due to poor customer experience
Facing fierce competition, today’s operators are incorporating technological advances and the concept of a standards-based managed information infrastructure strategy. To date, nearly one hundred service providers and one thousand network equipment vendor brands across four continents have chosen to leverage Common Language Information Services to provide an information solution.
For more than 30 years Common Language Information Services has evolved to support new technologies and services providing the communications industry with a single, managed implementation of key network and service related data. Common Language Information Services leverage a broad range of industry standards and is referenced by nearly all the relevant international standards organizations including ANSI, ETSI, ITU, ATIS, Telemanagement Forum, IETF and ISO.
Unlike standards, which provide a framework for information but stop short of an implementation, Common Language provides a collaborative community of peers as well as the automated mechanisms for sharing and managing critical information within a single business entity or between the hundreds of parties that use Common Language data on an automated basis. This advanced, collaborative approach helps to increase operational efficiency and helps to ensure that an operator's information is represented in a consistent and meaningful manner across their organization and the industry.
A Common Language subscription provides customers with access to our hosted information registries and associated reference data, some of which can be replicated in your environment, made available as needed via extract files or offered in real time via Web-based API’s.
Our Common Language Information Services include:
Common Language Services Information Service
Providing the industry with a single, flexible approach to define and communicate service orders.
Common Language Connections Information Service
Providing carriers and service providers with a way to represent physical and logical connections.
Common Language Location Information Service
A single source of network location information that helps provide efficient,
seamless collaboration with trading partners.
Common Language Equipment Information Service
Providing a consistent, meaningful and unique method of identifying
equipment, its capabilities and its classifications.