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Catalyst
The Catalyst project developed and
implemented the Catalyst 3G multimedia Messaging System (MMS) platform. The Catalyst service allows mobile operators such as O2
Ireland to create a vibrant third-party service provider eco-system that enables
service providers to create, test and deploy premium services quickly and
cost-effectively.
Catalyst was funded by Enterprise Ireland and O2 Ireland under the
Innovation Partnership fund. The total budget of the project was approximately 95K.
The project was completed in December 2005. Current status is closed.
For further information contact:
Hélène
Haughney, hhaughney@tssg.org, +353 (0)51-302974
Mobile operators
do not have the resources or content to build a sufficient critical mass of revenue-generating
3G services to make 3G a success by themselves – they need to create an eco-system
of third party service providers. Service providers in turn need a simple and
cost effective way of migrating their content to the 3G environment and
ensuring their services are interoperable from network to network. Furthermore
making it easy for content providers to create services is only the start – it
needs to be easy for operators and service providers to test, deploy, manage
and retire services. This is where Catalyst is used.
TSSG teamed up
with O2 Ireland to develop a prototype to integrate into their network that
allowed end users to create services and plug into O2s services. The prototype contains
the following components:
- Web based front
end portal built using Java.
- User profile
configuration so that the user could customise the look and feel.
- Added value
services based on the SMS and MMS services.
- Configuration
management component whereby the end user could customise their mobile web
site and determine what users could access it.
- Personalised
Blog site creation.
- As this project
coincided with O2’s i-Mode work we included support for i-Mode in the
product which may be used by O2 to develop more i-Mode supported sites.
TSSG launched the
service to a closed user group in Ireland and continue to run the Beta service
for a limited number of SMEs and clubs.
Summary of
outputs:
·
Project Final Report
for Enterprise Ireland.
·
Prototype Service
available to O2 Ireland customers.
Partner List
Project partners were O2 Ireland.
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