Service providers offering prepaid services operate in a market characterized by high volumes and low margins. They need to keep costs low and operate with high efficiency, while maximizing the reach for their services. They have to interconnect with multiple carrier networks supporting diverse protocols and signaling standards. With proven interoperability with best-of-breed prepaid service platforms, multi-national signaling support, seamless any-to-any protocol working and maximum bandwidth efficiency, the Veraz Prepaid Services Application solution provides a highly cost-effective and flexible solution for service providers.
Being IP-based, the Veraz Prepaid solution allows the prepaid service platform to be hosted at a central location on the IP network, while delivering services to multiple regions & countries. This results in significant cost-savings compared to traditional TDM solutions. The cost-effectiveness is further enhanced by the fully distributed, modular architecture of the ControlSwitch™, which enables expansion to new regions with the addition of just the components required for that location. For instance, expansion to a new region may only require the addition of a media gateway and no additional investment in application or switching infrastructure.
With support for multi-national signaling variants of SS7 and ISDN-PRI, and seamless any-to-any interworking between TDM signaling and IP protocols such as H.323 & SIP, the ControlSwitch™ enables delivery of prepaid services to a broad range of end-users served by IP, PSTN and wireless networks. The ControlSwitch™'s adaptable signaling framework enables customization of new national variants in a matter of days. Besides enabling rapid entry into new regions to exploit new market opportunities, this allows prepaid service providers to reduce costs via local termination in multiple regions.
The Veraz solution leverages best-of-breed prepaid servers that support a rich set of features and are based on standard off-the-shelf computing platforms for cost-effective, scalable and fault-redundant configurations. The comprehensive set of features supported include on-line credit card validation for recharge, multiple language support, multiple currency support, fraud control and an extensive set of real time rating features. The operational costs are minimized through web-based management of accounts, users and features, including the option of a customer self-service portal.
The industry-leading compression characteristics and voice quality of the I-Gate 4000 family of media gateways deliver substantial bandwidth savings for prepaid service providers, along with uncompromising toll-quality voice over both TDM and IP networks.
PRINT THIS DIAGRAM Highly cost-effective IP-based solution compared to traditional TDM alternatives - Delivery of prepaid services over the widest possible global footprint via multi-national signaling support and any-to-any protocol interworking
- Choice of best-of-breed prepaid servers that deliver a rich set of easily customizable features
- Fully distributed, modular architecture enabling fast, low-cost expansion into new markets
- Optimal bandwidth efficiency coupled with uncompromising toll-quality voice over both TDM & IP networks
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