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Project
Background
and
Purpose
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A
major
Canadian
Multimedia
Services
provider
identified
a
need
for
NTG
Clarity
to
develop
a
Multimedia
Self-Service
and
Booking
System
to
capture
and
track
service
order
requests
for
real
time
network
capacity
using
Audio
and
Video
multimedia
products
and
services.
These
requests
would
be
placed
by
the
company
broadcasting
customers
in
North
America
and
the
company
business
offices
serving
this
market.
Multimedia
products
are
organized
into
Audio
and
Video,
with
real
time
streaming
of
Video
signals
using
MPEG
(Motion
Pictures
Expert
Group)
or
uncompressed
SDI
(Serial
Digital
Interface)
media
protocols.
The
system
was
designed
to
be
a
Web
enabled
interactive
e-business
solution
using
an
Internet
GUI
for
user
interaction
with
an
interface
to
the
NTG
Clarity
Smart2Go
software
tool
to
perform
the
system
functionality.
Smart2Go
is
a
proprietary
NTG
Clarity
rapid
applications
development
tool
based
on
Java
technologies
and
W3C
(World
Wide
Web
Consortium)
standards.
It
is
a
Web
based
system
that
has
the
capabilities
to
generate
application
code
interfaces
among
systems
in
an
Internet
environment.
Based
on
J2EE
(Java2
Enterprise
Extension)
architecture
and
standards,
Smart2Go
can
generate
Web
applications
from
XML
(eXtensible
Markup
Language)
using
XSLT
(eXtensible
Stylesheet
Language
Transformation)
designed
to
transform
one
XML
document
to
another.
Smart2Go
was
used
in
the
development
of
the
Multimedia
Self-Service
and
Booking
System
to
develop
the
system
interfaces
and
the
data
model
transformation
algorithms
between
the
Engineering
Provisioning
and
Reservation
System,
the
Billing
System
and
the
Distribution
System
for
offline
communication
and
provisioning
(Envoy).
Smart2Go
uses
Oracle
as
an
RDBMS
database
but
is
not
limited
to
a
particular
database
and
may
be
adapted
to
use
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Main
System
Features:
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The
Multimedia
Service
Self-Booking
and
Reservation
(Digital
Video)
system
provides
for
the
following
overall
functionality:
- Capability
to
create,
retrieve,
view,
modify
and
cancel
service
order
requests
fro
booking
real-time
streaming
Video
services
using
MPEG
or
SDI
media
protocols,
along
with
real-time
network
capacity
reservation.
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Capability
to
create,
retrieve,
view,
modify
and
cancel
service
order
requests
for
booking
real-time
streaming
Audio
services
with
manual
provisioning.
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Capability
to
create,
retrieve,
view,
modify
and
cancel
service
order
requests
for
expanding
the
network
with
broadband
network
to
new
locations.
-
Provide
flow-thru
for
real-time
broadband
network
bandwidth
checking
and
reservation
via
an
interface
to
the
company
Provisioning
System
for
Digital
Video.
-
Provide
an
interface
to
the
main
Billing
System.
-
Provide
an
interface
to
the
company
Distribution
System
to
modify
the
reservations,
and
offer
offline
communication
and
provisioning.
-
Allow
for
the
ability
to
filter
and
show
enterprise
specific
orders.
-
Provide
an
interface
to
the
Multimedia
Services
company
Portal
for
authorization
and
security.
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Accomplishments
and
Results
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The
Multimedia
Service
Self-Booking
and
Reservation
(Digital
Video)
system
was
successfully
developed
and
implemented
for
the
Canadian
Multimedia
Services
provider.
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