How will Service Providers, NEPs, and their suppliers benefit from SCOPE?
Service providers benefit by being able to accelerate service deployment on a stable and flexible platform with confidence. Platform building blocks consistent with SCOPE profiles will enable the integration of the carrier grade features required by Service Providers. By identifying common features that are important for NEPs, SCOPE profiles enable improved interoperability and a real multi-vendor ecosystem. NEPs will benefit from a faster time to market, investment protection, increased life cycle span, high availability, and environmental standard compliance. By specifying common profiles for the HW, the operating system and the middleware, SCOPE expects to reduce the fragmentation of the ecosystem and to create the volumes needed to motivate ISVs to produce building blocks & components (data bases, stacks, …) for the CGBP. SCOPE profiles will help building block vendors to obtain requirements from NEPs and to release products consistent with them.
