Network infrastructure discovery — Streamlining complex developments with parametric approach in MTOSI compliant fashion

For any type of highly automated fulfillment systems - key success factor for efficient service provisioning is quality of data in inventory. Almost every service today is of complex nature and spans over multiple types of technologies consisting of different equipment types, management systems, vendors. During previous years maintaining data accuracy was complex and expensive manual task. However by introduction of network discovery capabilities in Croatian Telekom NGOSS infrastructure - quite lot of this task could be automated. This paper is presenting key challenges and how they were overcomed with several significant original innovations that made this solution implementation successful as result of cooperation between Croatian Telekom and GDi GISDATA.