Provisioning a Network Element

There are other network elements in the telephone system that can be provisioned (updated) besides individual end-user phone numbers. Examples of other network elements, include switches, Service Control Points (SCP), routers, LDAP servers,....

Here is another example of how the SDP Provisioning application is used:

1. A local telephone service provider requests to have a switch provisioned

2. A Mediation Layer talks to the switches

3. Service Delivery Platform (SDP) which may be an XML-enabled legacy system, sends a message to the Mediation Layer.

4. SDP receives a response back from the Mediation Layer once the provisioning (updating) has completed.

This messaging also uses XML as the message payload and Advanced Queueing (AQ). Here AQ is used mainly as storage medium for the XML queues. Future releases may use the JMS interface over AQ to provide a standard interface.