About Activation Service Cartridge Projects

Solution designers develop Activation Service cartridges to create a service model that can activate services on different types of network equipment, as the service actions and atomic actions within the Activation Service cartridge may be missing one or more of the vendor, technology and software load tokens. Modelers can use elements of Activation Network cartridges in Activation Service cartridges for implementation when creating common service models. Solution designers purchase and then import Activation Network cartridges, to build one or more Activation Service cartridges that link down into components within network cartridges and that are specific to an offered service. Service cartridges incorporate the many different types of equipment used to set up and provide telephony services.

You can use Activation Service cartridges to create customer-specific service models. These cartridges can contain customer-specific service modeling elements as well as links to elements in other cartridges. While an Activation Network cartridge always has the three associated attributes (a vendor, such as Ericsson; a technology, such as DMS; and a software load, which references the release number), an Activation Service cartridge does not necessarily contain all these attributes. Activation Service cartridges have elements that generally span multiple types of vendor equipment, can run multiple software loads, and may or may not include one or more of the Activation Network cartridge attributes.

When creating an Activation Service cartridge, there are two required attributes that you must specify: a service attribute (for example, Prepaid) and a Domain attribute (for example, Mobile).