Mercurius is a generic OSS – Network integration platform, dedicated to mediation of service management tasks. It can be perfectly used for mediation of:

• network inventory audit (autodiscovery)
• subscriber and service provisioning actions in PSTN or NGN network
• NGN gateway management tasks
• routing provisioning tasks in PSTN or NGN network
• trunk group management tasks
• signaling configuration tasks

Mercurius acts as mediation server, which receives the service orders from the OSS systems and translates them into actions, understood by network elements. After actions are performed, the system sends the result back to the OSS. The north bound APIs can be delivered in technologies such as SOAP/XML, FTP/SFTP files or Java APIs and others. For communication with network elements, the system can use proprietary interfaces (MML commands) or common technologies as CORBA, SOAP, etc. Communication with networks can be based on direct communication with network elements or through Interfaces provided by Element Management systems.

The system has been designed around the following principles:

• Flexible and user friendly design process of mediation and integration functions,
• Support of very complex provisioning flows,
• Runtime flexibility and configurability,
• Extensibility,
• Scalability reaching millions of actions per day.

Modular architecture exploiting the most advanced IT technologies ensures:

• Easy adaptation to changing requirements,
• High security profile,
• Fully transactional environment,
• Horizontal and vertical scalability,
• Server redundancy.

The system has been designed on the base of our integration experience done for many operators world-wide such as Telstra (Australia), Slovak Telecom, Telemar (Brazil) or CNC Beijing (China).

Mercurius contains several applications that enables easy and fast integration flow design, as well as runtime system monitoring and problem tracking.