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Service oriented provisining (abbreviated SOP) is a technology concept developed during the early 2000's to curb the hyper competition developing in the WISP and ISP space.

Definition

The capability of defining and working with "services" instead of "on/off" internet access.

WISP / ISP perspective

By enabling service oriented provisioning a Telecom service provider can define his service offering as a specific set of services. The main advantage being that product differentiation can be achieved and thus price differentiation.

Consumer advantage

Consumers can choose services adapted to their need, this becomes specifically interesting in modern type broadband networks where traditional "laptop" access is mixed with smaller hand held devices targeting for example voice services.

Challenges

Implementing service oriented provisioning requires the network operator to re-engineer the way services are created and distributed into a network.

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