Oracle® Communications ASAP Concepts
Release 7.2
E18880-01
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1 Introduction

Oracle Communications ASAP equips telecommunications service providers with a single platform for automated service activation. ASAP receives service requests from any source and transmits the required service activation information to any destination network device.

ASAP's core architecture isolates business semantics (rules and behavior) from technology semantics (interface implementations and protocols). This architecture allows ASAP to handle multiple, heterogeneous network technologies and supports various interfaces, including:

Because ASAP complies with accepted international standards, ASAP supports all convergent technology domains with a flexible and customizable repository of service definitions and business semantics. ASAP can activate services on network elements or element management systems.

ASAP offers the following characteristics:

ASAP Activation Processing Features

ASAP's activation processing features are:

ASAP Management Components

ASAP's flow-through activation and activation processing features are managed by the following components: