Don’t miss the latest Catalyst demonstrations at Digital Disruption as Forum member companies collaborate to showcase innovative approaches and technical solutions to common business challenges.

Responding to specific needs of the telecommunications industry, the Catalyst Program allows companies to come together in a neutral space and develop technologies to alleviate some of the problems currently facing the industry.  Working in six-month intervals, these teams create proof-of-concept demonstrations to show at our flagship events, which are attended by more than 900 companies from all over the world.

The Catalyst demonstrations will be showcased in the Communities areas in the Hub, and are focused on topics that fall into TM Forum’s Agile Business, Customer Centric and Open Digital Programs.

View the list of approved projects below (along with their recorded, live webinar) and make sure to check back for additional updates and previews of the Catalysts being demonstrated in San Jose!

Contact , Catalyst Program Manager, to learn more.

Agile Business

TM Forum’s Agile Business and IT Program helps service providers and enterprises continuously optimize their IT and operations to deliver the speed and flexibility needed to succeed in the digital world–dramatically reducing costs, risks, and time-to-market.

Preparing NFV for Primetime

This Catalyst builds off of Cloud NFV 1.0, which  showcased a dynamic, data-driven Management and Operations Platform, using network state to semantically drive orchestration.   This latest iteration will show how a platform based on a rich information fabric supports policy-based management.  This counts as a big step forward to leveraging this technology in your organization.

Closing the Loop: Scaling, Healing, and Optimizing a Virtualized Network

Building off of a prior project, this Catalyst demonstrates how to increase operational efficiency and reduce operating cost by automating optimization processes. Network and service inputs will be used to demonstrate closed loop functionality to heal and optimize a converged network running on both traditional and virtualized infrastructure.  Several network and service centric use cases handling NFV orchestration, automated core and RAN optimization will be demonstrated, leveraging TM Forum’s Performance Management interface, as well as ETSI NFV ISG proposed architecture.

Maximizing Profitability with NFV Orchestration

To fully harness the benefits of NFV, a more comprehensive kind of “intelligent, dynamic” orchestration is needed – one that considers all aspects of a virtualized function such as  the fluctuating costs of running them, and quality of service.  This catalyst project illustrates how to make the orchestration of virtualized network functions business-driven by harnessing the power of analytics and dynamically defined policies.

Lifecycle Management for Multi-Cloud Networks

This project advances lifecycle management for multi-cloud systems connected by virtual networks and virtualized network functions.  The architecture encompasses holistically managing SLAs involving VNFs and MPLS WAN gateways. This management stack addresses the major aspects of dynamically and comprehensively interconnecting real world private and public clouds.

Customer Centric

TM Forum’s Customer Engagement program helps service providers to continuously grow their business by moving beyond traditional customer experience, and exploring how to enable true 1:1 customer engagement – maximizing market share, customer loyalty and opportunities for growth.

Analytics Data Repository

Drawing from the existing work of the initial Big Data Analytics Catalyst project presented at TM Forum Live 2014 in Nice, this Catalyst will develop and demonstrate the concept of Analytics Data Repository in selected real-life use cases as defined in TM Forum’s Big Data Analytics Guidebook. The main output of this Catalyst project is the practical realization of these data analytics use cases and a common infrastructure, as defined, validated and developed by the team.

Smart Energy: Realizing the Digital Handshake

While the utility industry itself is well established, few holistic standards for operations of digitized Smart Grid operations exist yet. Building on previous catalysts, this team will show how existing concepts can be leveraged in the utility domain, and will describe how utilities stand to benefit from these proven and tested products and services.

Smart City: Empowering Governments to Build

The design and implementation of a smart city initiative is a huge effort with many collaborators from government, service providers and other private enterprises.  This Catalyst is the first step of a program of applying Frameworx to reduce the complexity and risk of implementing a smart city.  This step will develop the Frameworx mapping and city profile definitions, and will validate these with Águas de São Pedro, a city in Brazil currently undergoing a smart city transformation.

Recipe for Digital Success

The small to medium business market segment represents an untapped revenue opportunity for service providers. This segment has the demands of an enterprise, but needs to automation and repeatability of residential. This Catalyst demonstrates how TM Forum’s Digital Services Reference Architecture (DSRA) provides a clear and necessary blueprint to solve the challenges for all types of markets, including the small to medium business.

eHealth: Bridging the Divide

This Digital Health Catalyst will focus on coordinating the healthcare and communications industries by demonstrating use cases for the application of TM Forum concepts in the field of the digital health.  This project will further elaborate how to extend the available concepts and best practice to enable the bridging of the divide between healthcare and telecommunication industry.  These digital services hold the promise of enabling healthcare providers to be more efficient, deliver better care to a wider population of patients and lower administrative time and costs.