Carriers command LTE suppliers to build common OSS gear

In an interview conducted last week at TM Forum Americas conference in Orlando, Florida, Martin Creaner, CTO of TM Forum, claimed that the LTE ecosystem has about six to nine months to agree on standard interfaces within OSS frameworks for the next generation of mobile.

If that timeline isn’t met and standardisation isn’t hashed out, he claims, the entire LTE community will suffer as suppliers go on their proprietary way.

“We’ve been focused on getting the vendors to implement one interface,” said Creaner, who emphasises that “it’s in everyone’s interest” to move toward better standardisation, noting that there is “little incentive to stay proprietary.”

Indeed it is that kind of sentiment that has been fueling the work at the LTE/SAE Trial Initative (LSTI), a group formed two years ago to establish a more common and collaborative environment within the LTE universe.