Web Services security in data service delivery platform for telecom

The major requests for telecom network are efficiency, security, and reliability of service. Data service, running on the telecom network, is a most prominent revenue source for telecom operators. But traditional interface for data service delivery platform cannot completely meet these requirements. Web services, as a promising distributed computing technology, is regarded as the best candidate to design these interfaces. However, whether Web services technology can satisfy the telecom major requirements, especially security request, is still a question for telecom operators. This paper discusses the multiple aspects of Web service security, provides Web service security performance experiment results based on data size and different security policies, and gives suggestions on how to apply Web service security technology to data service delivery platform interface design