Open Telecommunications Platform Features

The Open Telecommunications Platform OTP provides integrated high availability services, system management services , and operating system and application provisioning services that enable you to develop, deploy, and host network equipment provider (NEP) applications. The Open Telecommunications Platform is comprised of the following software components:

OTP system management service

The OTP system management service is used to provision the OS to OTP hosts, and to manage the OTP hardware, the operating systems running on the OTP hardware, and the firmware necessary for hardware operation. The management software is comprised of operational elements and administrative elements.

OTP application provisioning service

The OTP application provisioning service is used to provision network equipment provider (NEP) applications. OTP application provisioning service can also be used to provision the OS to OTP hosts.

OTP high availability framework

The OTP high availability framework is used to manage OTP system membership, interconnects, networking quorums and highly available OTP deployments.

The Open Telecommunications Platform enables you to perform the following tasks:

• Discover additional OTP hosts that are to be managed and provisioned by the Open Telecommunications Platform system. Once discovered, each new host is known as an OTP host.

• Provision operating systems to OTP hosts.

• Provision NEP applications and other applications to OTP hosts.

• Provision firmware and patches to OTP hosts.

• Monitor the health of OTP hosts.

• Simplify OTP host configuration and recovery.

• Maximize OTP host utilization

• Minimize user-visible hardware downtime.

• Log system and OTP host events.