Welcome 2025 - Broadband Wholesale Catalyst
Xyna Bulletin #20
Dear friends, partners and customers of Xyna,
The new year has already passed the first 4% - we hope everyone has started well, healthy and optimistically. Despite challenging times in global politics, we are looking forward to the upcoming events and news about Xyna Factory; and we hope that you will all enjoy following our journey via the Xyna Bulletin newsletter in 2025.
We want to start, in keeping with the New Year, with a classic bang: together with AT&T, BT, Telekom and Vodafone - as well as other providers and suppliers - we are taking part in a large, transatlantic Catalyst project of the TM Forum: Broadband as a Service.
Motivated by our project successes in using open APIs and orchestrating ODA-compliant fulfillment chains with Xyna, we now want to go one step further: in the Catalyst project, we are demonstrating end-to-end automation (BSS + OSS) of wholesale processes for B2C and B2B fiber broadband products using standardized interfaces and functional components.
In February, we will meet with our partners in Cascais (Portugal), and at the dtw ignite! in Copenhagen in June, we will show the results live and in color. We will of course keep you updated on interim results here.
Enjoy reading!
Best regards from Mainz,
Philipp & Alexander
Xyna GmbH
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TM Forum Catalyst | dtw ignite! 2025
Driven by the rapid development of fiber optics, which is characterized by the emergence of new infrastructure providers, the wholesale market is becoming increasingly important in Germany and in many other countries. In contrast to DSL infrastructure, there will be significantly more NetCos in the future, i.e. companies that have sovereignty over access and aggregation fiber optic routes, but are not or not always active in the ServCo area, i.e. offer access products for enterprise or residential markets.
Of course, there are already structures, committees, processes and interfaces in the wholesale market in Germany and other countries. Keywords: Open Access, S/PRI, Interfaces & Processes Working Group, WITA, WBCI, KFT tests & Co. In many markets, very different, proprietary spheres for wholesale have emerged over the last 20 years. Some with more, some with less government regulation. But never compatible with each other. Neither in terms of the commercial and technical processes, nor in terms of the interfaces with which BSS and OSS systems are linked for wholesale / wholebuy. Not a good situation for providers who have to constantly restructure their processes for each country - but also not a good situation for system manufacturers who cannot standardize their products (functions and APIs), which leads to individual projects with high costs and low reusability.
The "Standardizing Wholesale Broadband - Fibre Access (BFA)" project has been running in the TM Forum for several years. In 2024, a first Catalyst was created from this, initially with a focus on BSS & Order Management. Phase II will follow in 2025 as an end-to-end chain - and we are part of it!
Broadband as a Service:
The future of wholesale broadband ordering
Phase II
Link to the official Catalyst website (TM Forum)
The project consists of three "levels" of participants: firstly, the major service providers: AT&T (US), BT Group (UK), Vodafone (UK + DE) and Telekom (DE). Then there are fiber optic providers such as OXG (DE), Lyse (Norway) and CityFiber (UK), who generally do not offer end customer services, but have developed fiber infrastructure and offer (L2) services on the OLT-ONT route. And we have a number of software manufacturers on board: alongside us, Axiros (ACS), Altice (OSS), Comarch (BSS/OSS), amartus (Wholesale Automation / Order Management) and alvatross (BSS/OSS) are also involved in Catalyst.
For several weeks now, we have been working on use cases, processes and the coupling of the systems or functional components involved via open APIs. Classified in the structure of the Open Digital Architecture (ODA). Since we can use Xyna Factory to map all types of open APIs including catalog structures for services and resources plus associated workflows very well, we feel more than up to the task and look forward to the exchange!
The next milestone is a project meeting in February in Cascais, Portugal. In addition to the hopefully spectacular big waves in nearby Nazaré, an intensive week full of workshops and spec sessions awaits us there to further develop the joint idea and prepare the demo that we will present at the dtw Ignite! trade fair in Copenhagen in June.
Of course, “Save the date” already applies – we will be present with Xyna both at the Catalyst exhibition and with our own booth at the exhibition.