Ericsson has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the operations support system interoperability initiative known as OSSii.

By supporting multi-vendor interoperability between the operating support system (OSS) of the participating companies, OSSii aims to promote competition for network-level OSS systems. The main objective of the OSSii initiative is to reduce the overall integration costs as well as speeding up the time-to-market for new services.

Having signed the MoU, Ericsson is committed to enter into reciprocal cross-license agreements which will cover fault, performance, configuration and a basic set of network event-trace related northbound interfaces. These agreements will cover radio access, circuit core and packet core OSS, connected to telecom network equipment. The vendor would also offer interoperability testing services to other organisations.