Definition of a web 2.0 gateway for 3rd party service access to next generation networks

Abstract

Modern telecommunication networks and classical roles of operators are subject to fundamental change. Many network operators are currently seeking for new sources to generate revenue by exposing network capabilities to 3rd party service providers. At the same time we can observe that applications on the World Wide Web (www) are becoming more mature in terms of the definition of APIs that are offered towards other services. The combinations of those services are commonly referred to as Web 2.0 mash-ups. This report describes our approach to include Next Generation Networks (NGN)-based telecommunications application enabler into Web 2.0 mash-ups by defining a JavaScript-based service exposure API that allows easy and straight forward integration of telecommunications en-ablers into such mash-ups. The platform is validated through an application including telecommunications-based services as conferencing, rich presence and location, as well as the community portal Facebook and Google maps. © 2008 International Federation for Information Processing.