Infosys has completed the work for the first phase of a new inventory system using an OSS COTS product and is working on the subsequent phases. This involves not only designing the various technologies and their inter-working but also building the equipments in the inventory. To allow the users an ease of transition from their current systems, a customized front end, similar to their earlier systems, has been provided. This GUI was not part of the COTS product but has been built and integrated with it.

In addition to providing the new inventory system the team has also interacted with the various network planners to come up with new processes to be followed in this new system. This has resulted in a 'best-of-both worlds' solution where the end users are hidden from the intricacies of the underlying system and the network planners have an inventory system which provides them with an end-to-end view of the network.