 | Federated identity management is a recent, vast and promising area. It has received a lot of attention from various industries, including the telecom industry. Some aspects have already been standardized as part of forums such as 3GPP, OASIS, OMA and Liberty Alliance. In the context of converged networks, the overall goal of this effort is to “identityenable” selected telecom network elements and allow converged operators to gain the benefits of standards-based identity and data federation technologies. By empowering themselves to play a key role in federated identity management, network operators reduce the likelihood of becoming “dumb pipes” and create around them a rich ecosystem of services and business relationships. |
Written in collaboration with Lucent In this white paper, we will:
- provide a high-level view of the identity management ecosystem (using Liberty Alliance as the archetypical example)
- identify the value-add for end-users and the benefits & opportunities for the providers of services
- explain some of requirements for the role of identity provider (IdP)
- propose a reference architecture for identity management
- list the key differentiators of the Lucent-Sun product combinations
- present proof-of-concept use cases to validate with a service provider.
Note to the reader: even though this white paper will be, as far as possible, technology agnostic, we will use some terminology and examples borrowed from the Liberty Alliance specification, because it is the most mature technology to address federated identity management in its full scope.
Download full paper in pdf (here)
