NTT Advanced Technology Corporation (NTT-AT) and SL Japan Corporation (SL) have announced that SL-GMS J/Net and Enterprise RTView have been selected for NTT-AT's new "TNMS Engine" OSS Development Platform product. NTT-AT, an NTT Group company, is a leading technology integrator for the telecommunications industry, and SL is a leading provider of software solutions for the monitoring and display of real-time information.

The new "TNMS Engine" using the SL-GMS Java GUI, enables non-programmer service providers to develop and deploy a scalable OSS from NOC to back-office Web access, easily and in a shorter time frame to meet today's needs to rapidly deploy new network services. Together with the flexibility of the new TNMS Engine to react quickly to network service changes, TCO of OSS can be reduced.

TNMS Engine is an OSS Development Platform comprised of integrated tools to support from design to testing, and an OSS compliant to TMN standard defined by ITU-T can be developed with less development efforts. It has been deployed by many enterprises including telecom carriers for various network operation management including ATM, SDH/Sonet, Optical and IP networks. However, the major feature of the former "TNMS Engine" product was its powerful protocol engine which had no HMI development feature. Also, its protocol process description required C++ programming expertise.

The new TNMS Engine is now enhanced by integrating it with SL-GMS J/Net and Enterprise RTView to provide easy-to-use HMI development functionality for flexible and quick development of high performance displays, from Web clients to Rich clients. Leveraging Enterprise RTView's Display Builder, the new HMI development environment basically does not require programming. The new TNMS Engine's objective is to be "easy to-use and to-develop for non-programmers" and the protocol process is now made in Java and UML to enable most implementation without programming.