Research and Markets has announced the addition of Service-Oriented Architecture for Communications Service Providers (SOA for CSPs) - An Advisory Note to their offering.

This IT Advisory Note discusses key service-oriented architecture (SOA) concepts and components, the foremost example of an ongoing SOA implementation by some of the world’s largest service providers—and why everyone who either delivers or uses any IP service (or ever plans to do so) should care. Communications service providers (CSPs) are at a crossroads but the developments being undertaken inside a global IP industry consortium may offer a way out: a SOA-based automated global IP services marketplace.

EMA has an extensive service-oriented architecture (SOA) practice headed up by Senior Analyst Julie Craig, and this Advisory Note is not intended as an exhaustive primer on SOA but will discuss:

- Key SOA concepts and components

- The foremost example of an ongoing SOA implementation by some of the world’s largest service providers

- Why everyone who either delivers or uses any IP service—or ever plans to do so—should care