118. Service Delivery Platform (SDP) is an architecture that enables the quick development, deployment and integration (convergence) of broadband, video, wireless and wire-line services can cater to many technologies including VoIP, IPTV, HSD (High Speed Data), Mobile Telephony, Online Gaming, etc.

119. Examples of a converged architecture:

120. SDPs in the converged services world need to be designed and engineered using information and identity engineering techniques as a core discipline because a is supporting online users their services. A needs to be a real time multi function system that interfaces to the back office systems for billing and to the network infrastructure systems. From an information engineering perspective there could be 20-100 information items associated with a user, their devices and their content and if there are 10 million users on the system, it means that the needs scale up to associate with a billion pieces of information used in random ways. SDPs also need to address the issues of converged services management, account control, self care, and entitlements as well as presence based event type services. Service Delivery Platform, identity engineering and white papers on presence based services can be found at *www.wwite.com.