Moving telecom outside plant systems towards a standard interoperable environment

Abstract

There is a growing need for integrating telecommunication systems. This paper introduces the Telecommunication Outside Plant Markup Language (TOPML), an OpenGis GML (Geographic Markup Language) application schema designed to describe telecommunication outside plant data in which geographical information is an important issue. The use of TOPML can be a key factor for cost reduction on data gathering, conversion process of georeferenced data and system integration. By using TOPML, telecom systems can now communicate in different ways such as Web Services. Additionally, with TOPML and the definition of services following the OpenGIS specifications and the NGOSS component based architecture, the telecom outside plant systems can move towards a standard interoperable environment. The results of this paper are being implemented in the CPqD Outside Plant System, a geographical information system that automates the telecommunications outside plant management.