TELECOMMUNICATIONS
We provide complete integration services, including system design and integration, project management, delivery, installation, commissioning, start up, customer training, remote and field support and technology consulting. Our project managers provide expert planning, execution, and management of small- and large-scale projects alike all over the world. We take care that our customers sustain making long-term benefits.
- AGILE NETWORK SOLUTIONS
- VIRTUALIZED NETWORK FUNCTIONS
- INTERNET OF THINGS
- CONVERGED MESSAGING
- ROAMING SOLUTIONS
- OSS/BSS
AGILE NETWORK SOLUTIONS
We understand that Service Providers are pressed to gain more from less, cut the budgets and keep up with providing resourceful infrastructure and future-proof solutions. That is exactly where we believe we could be of great help since we have an ideal mixture of industry expertise and skillful resources. We have a proven talent in carrying out the delivery of agile, high-performance, extremely reliable, well tested and proven in capabilities – namely: carrier grade - telecommunication systems.
Just in Time Networking
The shift of services to the cloud presents a great opportunity for service providers but also creates the challenge of extending the LAN over the WAN while keeping the costs down. We see the Ribbon’s Elastic MPLS as a holistic solution to start building agile networks which will guaranty increased operation efficiency at reduced TCO and yet achieve the best in all categories: end user experience, performance, availability and security. The architecture based on ECI’s own flavor of NFV is responsible for the fast introduction of new services and the SDN technology for getting it all done in an optimal way and just in time.
Any-G Mobile Backhaul
We aim to facilitate a cost-effective installation by using a single box approach with a multiservice flexibility. We ensure that the solution will allow legacy 2G and 3G services to co-exist with LTE on the same transport network - natively or gracefully migrated to packet with Circuit Emulation (CES). The building blocks made of unparalleled multiservice equipment: L1-L3 functionality, integrated optics, including DWDM, OTN, and muxponders, ensure efficient and seamless interworking with the optical backbone. On top of it all is the Elastic MPLS that empowers the operator to use the optimal technology (IP/MPLS or MPLS-TP) for the backhaul architecture and facilitates interworking with the IP Core.
Optical Software Defined Networks
We help carriers to modernize optical transport networks and obtain multiple service and operational benefits, by adopting software defined optical networking. The milestones of our offer of optical SD networks are: fast service provisioning, dynamic restoration and multilayer optimization. Our SDN solutions harnesses dynamic capabilities embedded in ECI’s state-of-the-art optical transport and switching fabrics that already has a proven capability of achieving ultimate network automation.
Mission Critical Networks
Power utilities, homeland security and armed forces share the common set of superposed requirements for networking solutions that have to be achieved on top of what is usually used in the public communications sector: real time support, survivability and availability with no compromises, maximum data protection, network separation by information classification and support for legacy and special purpose systems. Neptune Family of IP Routers from Ribbon Communications is addressing all those requirements by enabling a flawless transition to MPLS-TP based packet network solution.
Intelligent Evolution to 5G
Our colleagues from Oracle Communications had been working very hard on developing a solution to make Signal Transfer Point and Signaling Gateway assets viable in LTE, M2M and Wi-Fi domains for enhanced connectivity, capacity and revenue. Their EAGLE STP is an unmatched answer for growing need for an “intelligent evolution” toward LTE. It represents a convergence of key Signaling System 7 assets into a single platform; then, from one location, operators can manage critical functions, such as signal transfer point (STP), signaling gateway (SGW), number portability (NP), equipment identity registry (EIR), routing, and security.
IMS Network Infrastructure
Oracle Communications IMS infrastructure for service delivery allows communications service providers to increase agility, capitalize on the opportunities enabled by IMS and accelerate the deployment of profitable Consumer VoIP, RCS, OTT, and VoLTE services. It delivers significantly reduced complexity since that CSCF, session routing, access, and interconnect functions can be flexibly integrated or separated while leveraging the same underlying architecture and systems management. The solution is extremely scalable in any given aspect: load balancing, the ability to cost-effectively increase node capacity, and the use of virtualization allow service providers to manage capacity, control spikes in demand, and scale infrastructure according to the real service demand.
VIRTUALIZED NETWORK FUNCTIONS
Our experience tells us that designing and rolling out a network infrastructure based on estimated current customer needs is an inevitable way of painting oneself into a corner. We joined our forces with Oracle Communications in order to help our customers avoid such situations by implementing virtualized network functions that will be taking care of yet unknown demands of future users too. Once they are NFV ready, our clients will be able to transform their infrastructure into fully virtualized at their own pace. They will be using optimal deployment steps gradually reaching the stage of offering scalable on-demand services in real time. We offer cloud-ready VNFs that may be run on a variety of VMs managed by advanced orchestration tools to achieve greater agility and operational efficiency. Furthermore, all OC VNFs are designed to be highly scalable where performance is guaranteed from a minimum lab configuration to a large deployment for a tier-1 service provider.
Rapid Onboarding
Oracle Communications VNFs are built following are optimized for NFV. They are truly platform independent, built to match carrier-grade standards with proven ability to coexist with their physical counterparts. This is why we know that migration from physical to fully virtualized is a seamless and bumpless transfer.
Edge Session Management
The Oracle Communications Session Border Controller (OCSBC) satisfies all session border control requirements for fixed line, mobile (VoLTE), and OTT service providers, enabling trusted interactive and secure VoIP communications across network borders. OCSBC is available as a VNF in addition to a PNF, and this flexibility opens a wider range of deployment options for service providers. OCSBC VNF is equivalent in functionality to its purpose-built counterpart, and is suitable for all use cases such as SIP trunking, peering with other networks, mobile and fixed line access and hosted unified and contact center communications.
Core Session Management
The building blocks of the core session management layer of the VNF portfolio are the Oracle Communications Core Session Manager (OCCSM), the Policy Manager (OCPM), the Diameter Service Router (OCDSR) and the Session Router (OCSR).
OCCSM is a carrier-grade, standards-based virtualized IMS core designed for NFV from Day 1. It has a complete set of session core functions including Call Session Control Function (CSCF) and Break-out Gateway Control Function (BGCF) and their associated 3GPP interfaces. The OCCSM comes pre-integrated with the Session Delivery Manager. Oracle Communications Policy Management (OCPM) provides the flexible and resilient network policy system providing standards-based, yet customizable interfaces and multivendor interoperability with a wide range of third party network functions.
Oracle Communications Diameter Signaling Router (OCDSR) is a cloud deployable Diameter signaling controller solution. OCDSR centralizes routing, traffic management and load balancing, creating an architecture that enables IMS and LTE networks to be truly elastic. OCDSR north-bound interface allows integration with any orchestrator.
Session Router (OCSR) is a key element of the network core that provides extensive routing capabilities for calls based on defined policies and a variety of criteria such as least cost and time-of-day. OCSR will increase scale and performance of SIP routing, resolve addresses, apply policy, and select optimum path within a core signaling network while reducing the cost and complexity of providing multimedia services. It is fully integrated with Oracle Communications Application Orchestrator.
Application Servers
Oracle Communications Converged Application Server (OCCAS) and Evolved Communications Application Server (OCECAS) form the Applications Servers layer – the top layer of VNFs architecture.
OCCAS provides an open, standards-based, virtualized converged application platform with integrated SIP and Web capabilities; OCCAS helps customers worldwide reduce the cost and time of developing and deploying carrier-grade, converged applications by over 70%. It enables customers to maximize profitability from existing services, to realize new revenue from innovative converged Web-Telecom applications, and implement new features in their existing enterprise Unified Communication (UC) and contact center networks.
Oracle Communications Evolved Communications Application Server (OCECAS) is is powered by OCCAS as the underlying service engine, leveraging the unrivalled performance, and in-memory data grid technology. OCECAS provides a comprehensive, standards-compliant, out of the box application for VoLTE, ViLTE and VoWiFi that is 100% configurable and extendable. OCECAS increases service agility by embracing DevOps approach to new service rollout using an automated deployment process from testing to staging to production environments. It provides ground-up support for virtualized orchestration and redefines IMS Application Server extensibility and scalability by utilizing cutting-edge Oracle Coherence in-memory data grid technology that preserves service continuity and maintains latency under NFV infrastructure failure conditions.
INTERNET OF THINGS
The Internet of Things has the power to transform every industry. Our telco team, united with de-facto one of the IoT industry’s leaders, French company Actility, is helping carriers, utilities, and enterprises to monitor, manage and control things in a variety use cases, enabling truly inventive business models and generating new revenues. Currently we are focused on LoRa WAN being that it is by far the most cost-effective way to connect things into meaningful applications. The complete offer is based on integration of the Actility ThingPark IoT enabler platform with a selection of components from the ecosystem of many compatible products and solutions from third parties comprising gateways, devices, services and IoT applications.
LPWA Networking
We offer ThingPark Wireless from Actility as a core network management and supervision solution for LPWA connectivity. It enables scalable LPWA networks and interoperable IoT applications and services. ThingPark Wireless supports a range of gateways — outdoor macro-cell, indoor nano-cell, and pico-cells — from leading vendors: Cisco, Multitech, UfiSpace, Kerlink and others. ThingPark OS is a central IoT management service to connect sensors to applications. It includes an operator-dedicated Operations Support System (OSS) tool to manage device and gateway onboarding through network activation, service orchestration and business enablement. ThingPark OS portals give users a set of end-to-end tools to manage both the operational and business layers of the product. These tools are enabled through WEB GUI applications, and are also available through web services to enable flexible and quick 3rd party management capabilities across the various existing roles (Operator, Supplier, Vendor or Subscriber) instantiated over the ThingPark Wireless product. ThingPark X is a data analytics and control framework which exposes data from connected things to applications, and offers off the shelf IoT industrial applications. Easy-to-implement REST APIs make it straightforward for third-party applications to interface with the ThingPark X data management system, enabling operators, device and application developers to support different M2M devices from various suppliers. ThingPark Market is a B2B ecommerce platform aggregating, distributing and connecting IoT devices and applications to the ThingPark platform.
IoT Application Development Enablement
As we are one of them we know that third-party application developers can easily interface with the ThingPark OS data management engine through connectors dedicated to specific external IoT cloud services, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and IBM Bluemix. ThingPark X also makes it possible for multiple application protocols like KNX, WMBus or ZCL to be carried over a LoRaWAN network with a single data storage and access mechanism.
Real-Time IoT Automation
ThingPark includes real-time high-performance algorithms able to control millions of end-points and respond to network and market events with sub-second response time. ThingPark large scale aggregation platforms are used today by Energy DSOs and TSOs to help control power consumption in real time. ThingPark can handle massive amounts of data, performing key features like quota management and automatic secure open data mediation. This function simplifies M2M application development, allowing clients to concentrate on data analysis and representation capabilities rather than storage management.
IoT Applications
TERI’s telco and IT teams are working together on development and deployment of turnkey, bottom-to-top IoT solutions for various verticals: energy & utilities, telecoms, mining, oil and gas, factories, buildings & facilities, agriculture, smart cities, transport and logistics. We start with careful selection of gateways and planning of LPWA network gateway locations. The gateways are deployed and then connected to the core network server and the network is verified. After that we may start developing an end user application and deploying connected devices: environmental sensors, sensors to detect pipe leakage, smoke, pressure, temperature, or water flow meters, power meters etc.
CONVERGED MESSAGING
The world of messaging is not flat anymore. With the fall of SMS, we have seen the rise of popularity of numerous mobile messaging applications which are rich in features and all having rather inevitable downside: dependency on the user’s client, operator, or device and they don’t talk to each other. Propelled by the fact that those OTT services have been literary exploiting service provider networks and harming their revenues, converged messaging solutions have found their way to everyday life. Boosted by Google and global Tier 1 telco’s the development of messaging solutions for Rich Communication Services is getting a quantum leap but not yet reaching full maturity. We propose the solution that will support that step from legacy to the future platforms: converged messaging solutions for RCS, IP Messaging, SMS/MMS, and LTE messaging. We aim to facilitate operators to transform their messaging core and introduce new services to end users with significantly reduced time to market and notably richer user experience.
Rich Messaging
We offer the RCS solution that brings rich messaging services from simple text IM to conversational and group messaging. The messaging application server enables Capability Discovery for multi-device handling and other types of optimizations. The RCS service is extended to non-RCS mobile users vi IPSM gateway providing the SMS and MMS interworking function.
IP Short Message Gateway
IP-SM-GW provides SMS service continuity on LTE and non-cellular IP networks without requiring any changes in 2G/3G systems including existing SMSCs. Regardless of subscriber's device capability or network status, the IP-SM-GW enables end-to-end short message services transparently to subscriber's messaging service experience. IP-SM-GW is a component of its converged messaging platform, Rich Messaging Server (RMS) that delivers truly converged messaging to operators with intelligent routing, policy driven services and multiple domain delivery capabilities.
Short Message Gateway
Short Message Gateway is a 3GPP/3GPP2 compliant SMSC part of the portfolio providing tools for transition to modern messaging services. Designed with idea that once the legacy SMSC reaches the end of life operator’s will still need to maintain certain proportion of SMS traffic, the SM Gateway steps in to take over all of the load but this time with much lower TCO. Since it is a component of the component of the converged messaging platform our offer of SMSC means that by putting it in place of the legacy system an operator is actually taking a first step towards the new age messaging core.
ROAMING SOLUTIONS
Our partner in the domain of roaming services, Tomia is the pioneer of the trade. Their innovative roaming solutions overcome the complex challenges and unexpected obstacles of the hyper-connected world, in order to drive real-time business impact and deliver outstanding user experience. Their aim is to provide one place to manage the wholesale and retail inter-carrier business while deriving more value from the underlying networks. Their solutions help operators create and implement truly global mobile applications.
Intelligent Preferred Network for LTE
This fully automated Steering of Roaming (SoR) product helps operators achieve optimal steering results and meet wholesale discount agreements in LTE and hybrid environments. It recognizes LTE registrations and complies with Circuit Switch (CS) fallback scenarios. IPN LTE also controls 4G devices and SIM PLMN lists, and dynamically sets the preferred partner according to the location, business targets, access technology and device in use.
LTE Campaign Management
For effective marketing campaigns in a diverse roaming environment, the Starhome Mach Sparx4G™ solution is best of breed. Sparx4G employs micro-segmentation to send the correct message to a specific segment, based on those subscribers’ profiles. Sparx takes into consideration subscribers’ devices, the network in which they are roaming and the network technology. Sparx promotes true high speed data access in cities and locations where LTE is available to roamers with heavy data usage patterns.
EU Regulation Solution
Tomia provides a complete solution that will help mobile operators meet the challenges of the new EU “Roam like Home” regulations.
The solution enables operators to minimize the risks of Permanent Roamers and abuse of the Fair Usage Policy (FUP) while being fully compliant with the new regulations. Operators can identify, measure and react to cases of permanent roaming and Fair Usage abuse in Near Real-time and take the indicated appropriate actions based on their business objectives.
Real-Time Anti-Fraud
Starhome Mach’s Real-time Anti-fraud is a worry-free solution that detects and prevents International Revenue Share Fraud (IRSF) in real-time to eliminate fraud losses and protect the MNO’s brand reputation.
Unlike traditional fraud management systems that identify fraud after the fact by analyzing Call Detail Records (CDRs), Starhome Mach identifies fraud while it happens and it stops it in real-time. “Real-time Anti-fraud” was nominated for the 2017 GSMA Global Mobile Awards for Best Mobile Security or Anti-Fraud Solution
OSS/BSS
Proper OSS/BSS system has a crucial role to ensure quality in customer experience and increased efficiency in tomorrow’s world. The world in which end users will want even more speed, in which smart devices will be joining their bits into gigantic force of Big Data, telecommunication services will be software defined, the world in which all that will have to be delivered with ever decreasing price. Fragmented OSS and static BSS are the first place to look for reasons for growing subscriber churn. With the help from experts from Oracle Communications we help operators reach the right balance of pro-active OSS and solid BSS systems in order to cut down service interruptions, activate new services immediately instead in days, and secure accurate charging for subscribers. To double-check how to improve the existing services and where to go next we add to our offer the Customer Experience solutions from Oracle Communications and Zhilabs.
Unified Inventory Management
Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management is an open, standards-based application that provides an intelligent inventory of communications services and resources. Its flexible, extensible architecture enables the rapid design and efficient delivery of customer-centric services along with the management of current and next- generation resources and technologies. UIM enables rapid introduction of current and next-generation services and technologies and facilitates faster time to revenue through pre-built support for complex next generation services. UIM is a seamless extension into NFV with holistic support for both physical and virtualized resources and network services.
Design Studio
Oracle Communications Design Studio is a unified design time environment that accelerates the creation and delivery of Oracle Communications Solutions by providing an efficient, intuitive, and consistent design experience across the various fulfillment and resource management applications within the Oracle Communications portfolio. It is a graphical, integrated development environment for the design, deployment, and testing of integrated, multi-application OSS solutions. Design Studio simplifies the creation of metadata specifying order decomposition and orchestration rules in order management, inventory specifications, design / assign rules and discovery / reconciliation rules in inventory, and configuration of composite and atomic task translations in activation. It enables development collaboration and solution packaging, versioning and deployment with reduced time to market for new services.
Order and Service Management
Oracle Communications OSM enables Communications Service Providers to design and manage the fulfillment of customer orders for both traditional and increasingly digital services through their entire lifecycle. OSM is a key component of Oracle Communications’ “Concept to Cash” solutions which enable service providers to quickly design and launch new B2B and B2C services and manage the delivery of the order across participating business and operational systems as well as partners in order to fulfill the order. OSM organically couples with the Cross-Channel Customer Experience system performing the role of the Central Order Orchestration which ensure exact and swift delivery of customer orders.
Operations Monitor
Operations Monitor is part of an end-to-end network visibility and monitoring software system that increases the ROI of Long Term Evolution (LTE), IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), voice over IP (VoIP), and unified communications (UC) deployments and provides an unprecedented view of the network for both operations management and in depth troubleshooting. The Operations Monitor enables enterprises and service providers to quickly and securely deploy IP communications networks, reduce operational costs, generate additional revenue and minimize churn. As a proactive call monitoring solution, Oracle Communications Operations Monitor captures and analyzes all required signaling messages and media from the network, providing full correlation and quality metrics in real time. It also enables easy-to-use, drill-down troubleshooting for root-cause analysis of any reported problem related to a user, user group, trunk, network device, or Internet Protocol (IP) address.
Billing and Revenue Management
In a dynamic environment in which customer expectations and behaviors are changing rapidly, service providers are faced with many business challenges. Yet, this environment provides more opportunity for innovation than ever before. Service Providers are achieving greater service and offer personalization while improving profitability by leveraging Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management, a solution that radically improves time to market for new services, lowers operational costs by managing, monetizing, and maximizing revenue streams for any customer type, service offering, partner relationship, payment method, business model, or geography. To support such innovation, Oracle Communications BRM provides a fully convergent charging and billing system to manage the entire revenue management lifecycle. BRM is designed to support multiple business segments and business models from a single platform including B2C, B2B, and B2B2C. It includes innovative, intelligent, policy-driven charging capabilities that create compelling competitive differentiation. To keep service providers’ peace of mind the BRM built as a single optimized charging and revenue management platform capable providing extreme performance and massive throughput for convergent workloads.
Elastic Charging Engine
Smart devices, increasing fixed and mobile broadband speeds, and data consumption are changing consumer’s behavior and the way businesses operate. Charging for service and data usage now requires extreme real-time processing, for instant and personalized customer notifications, policy-based quality of service, and hybrid prepaid and postpaid charging plans. The Oracle Communications Elastic Charging Engine redefines real-time charging with extreme performance, inherent high availability, dynamic scalability and low cost, efficient operations. It is an always on, 100% real-time solution for prepaid and postpaid charging for all services on a single system. It enables operators to charge for high volumes of usage events with minimal infrastructure footprint that is based on built-in high availability technology. This same technology allows for zero-downtime upgrades.
Unified Cross-Channel Customer Experience
Communication Service Providers around the world are looking for ways to improve their services in order to be able to offer an engaging Customer Experience (CX) so that they may expand their customer base, retain existing customers, and monetize on these relationships. To achieve these benefits CSPs need to address CX at all customer touch points. Oracle has developed the CX Reference Architecture for Communications to help CSPs deliver a superior experience to their customers in all touch points throughout the Customer Experience lifecycle. The Oracle CX reference Architecture is founded on proven solutions and best-in-class applications and will enable CSPs to adopt a holistic approach to Customer Experience across standard processes from front office channels to back-office operations.
Customer Experience Management
Powered by the Big Data Application Server, Zhilab’s Vista is a complete virtualized customer experience analytics and management solution. Vista provides service operators with real-time information about how the subscribers experience the network, with insight into problems related to over-the-top services. Vista will enhance response time to problems, increase the QoS perceived by subscribers and maximize the business impact of network upgrades. Service providers which use the Vista tools gain deeper knowledge of subscriber interests and activities, unveil new revenue sources and track and boost the adoption of new services. Vista revolutionary technology can collect massive data at wire-speed, directly from the packet data network and from any OSS/BSS source, correlate it, apply advanced analytics in real-time and act back on the Network.
We provide complete integration services, including system design and integration, project management, delivery, installation, commissioning, start up, customer training, remote and field support and technology consulting. Our project managers provide expert planning, execution, and management of small- and large-scale projects alike all over the world. We take care that our customers sustain making long-term benefits.
- AGILE NETWORK SOLUTIONS
- VIRTUALIZED NETWORK FUNCTIONS
- INTERNET OF THINGS
- CONVERGED MESSAGING
- ROAMING SOLUTIONS
- OSS/BSS
AGILE NETWORK SOLUTIONS
We understand that Service Providers are pressed to gain more from less, cut the budgets and keep up with providing resourceful infrastructure and future-proof solutions. That is exactly where we believe we could be of great help since we have an ideal mixture of industry expertise and skillful resources. We have a proven talent in carrying out the delivery of agile, high-performance, extremely reliable, well tested and proven in capabilities – namely: carrier grade - telecommunication systems.
Just in Time Networking
The shift of services to the cloud presents a great opportunity for service providers but also creates the challenge of extending the LAN over the WAN while keeping the costs down. We see the Ribbon’s Elastic MPLS as a holistic solution to start building agile networks which will guaranty increased operation efficiency at reduced TCO and yet achieve the best in all categories: end user experience, performance, availability and security. The architecture based on ECI’s own flavor of NFV is responsible for the fast introduction of new services and the SDN technology for getting it all done in an optimal way and just in time.
Any-G Mobile Backhaul
We aim to facilitate a cost-effective installation by using a single box approach with a multiservice flexibility. We ensure that the solution will allow legacy 2G and 3G services to co-exist with LTE on the same transport network - natively or gracefully migrated to packet with Circuit Emulation (CES). The building blocks made of unparalleled multiservice equipment: L1-L3 functionality, integrated optics, including DWDM, OTN, and muxponders, ensure efficient and seamless interworking with the optical backbone. On top of it all is the Elastic MPLS that empowers the operator to use the optimal technology (IP/MPLS or MPLS-TP) for the backhaul architecture and facilitates interworking with the IP Core.
Optical Software Defined Networks
We help carriers to modernize optical transport networks and obtain multiple service and operational benefits, by adopting software defined optical networking. The milestones of our offer of optical SD networks are: fast service provisioning, dynamic restoration and multilayer optimization. Our SDN solutions harnesses dynamic capabilities embedded in ECI’s state-of-the-art optical transport and switching fabrics that already has a proven capability of achieving ultimate network automation.
Mission Critical Networks
Power utilities, homeland security and armed forces share the common set of superposed requirements for networking solutions that have to be achieved on top of what is usually used in the public communications sector: real time support, survivability and availability with no compromises, maximum data protection, network separation by information classification and support for legacy and special purpose systems. Neptune Family of IP Routers from Ribbon Communications is addressing all those requirements by enabling a flawless transition to MPLS-TP based packet network solution.
Intelligent Evolution to 5G
Our colleagues from Oracle Communications had been working very hard on developing a solution to make Signal Transfer Point and Signaling Gateway assets viable in LTE, M2M and Wi-Fi domains for enhanced connectivity, capacity and revenue. Their EAGLE STP is an unmatched answer for growing need for an “intelligent evolution” toward LTE. It represents a convergence of key Signaling System 7 assets into a single platform; then, from one location, operators can manage critical functions, such as signal transfer point (STP), signaling gateway (SGW), number portability (NP), equipment identity registry (EIR), routing, and security.
IMS Network Infrastructure
Oracle Communications IMS infrastructure for service delivery allows communications service providers to increase agility, capitalize on the opportunities enabled by IMS and accelerate the deployment of profitable Consumer VoIP, RCS, OTT, and VoLTE services. It delivers significantly reduced complexity since that CSCF, session routing, access, and interconnect functions can be flexibly integrated or separated while leveraging the same underlying architecture and systems management. The solution is extremely scalable in any given aspect: load balancing, the ability to cost-effectively increase node capacity, and the use of virtualization allow service providers to manage capacity, control spikes in demand, and scale infrastructure according to the real service demand.
VIRTUALIZED NETWORK FUNCTIONS
Our experience tells us that designing and rolling out a network infrastructure based on estimated current customer needs is an inevitable way of painting oneself into a corner. We joined our forces with Oracle Communications in order to help our customers avoid such situations by implementing virtualized network functions that will be taking care of yet unknown demands of future users too. Once they are NFV ready, our clients will be able to transform their infrastructure into fully virtualized at their own pace. They will be using optimal deployment steps gradually reaching the stage of offering scalable on-demand services in real time. We offer cloud-ready VNFs that may be run on a variety of VMs managed by advanced orchestration tools to achieve greater agility and operational efficiency. Furthermore, all OC VNFs are designed to be highly scalable where performance is guaranteed from a minimum lab configuration to a large deployment for a tier-1 service provider.
Rapid Onboarding
Oracle Communications VNFs are built following are optimized for NFV. They are truly platform independent, built to match carrier-grade standards with proven ability to coexist with their physical counterparts. This is why we know that migration from physical to fully virtualized is a seamless and bumpless transfer.
Edge Session Management
The Oracle Communications Session Border Controller (OCSBC) satisfies all session border control requirements for fixed line, mobile (VoLTE), and OTT service providers, enabling trusted interactive and secure VoIP communications across network borders. OCSBC is available as a VNF in addition to a PNF, and this flexibility opens a wider range of deployment options for service providers. OCSBC VNF is equivalent in functionality to its purpose-built counterpart, and is suitable for all use cases such as SIP trunking, peering with other networks, mobile and fixed line access and hosted unified and contact center communications.
Core Session Management
The building blocks of the core session management layer of the VNF portfolio are the Oracle Communications Core Session Manager (OCCSM), the Policy Manager (OCPM), the Diameter Service Router (OCDSR) and the Session Router (OCSR).
OCCSM is a carrier-grade, standards-based virtualized IMS core designed for NFV from Day 1. It has a complete set of session core functions including Call Session Control Function (CSCF) and Break-out Gateway Control Function (BGCF) and their associated 3GPP interfaces. The OCCSM comes pre-integrated with the Session Delivery Manager. Oracle Communications Policy Management (OCPM) provides the flexible and resilient network policy system providing standards-based, yet customizable interfaces and multivendor interoperability with a wide range of third party network functions.
Oracle Communications Diameter Signaling Router (OCDSR) is a cloud deployable Diameter signaling controller solution. OCDSR centralizes routing, traffic management and load balancing, creating an architecture that enables IMS and LTE networks to be truly elastic. OCDSR north-bound interface allows integration with any orchestrator.
Session Router (OCSR) is a key element of the network core that provides extensive routing capabilities for calls based on defined policies and a variety of criteria such as least cost and time-of-day. OCSR will increase scale and performance of SIP routing, resolve addresses, apply policy, and select optimum path within a core signaling network while reducing the cost and complexity of providing multimedia services. It is fully integrated with Oracle Communications Application Orchestrator.
Application Servers
Oracle Communications Converged Application Server (OCCAS) and Evolved Communications Application Server (OCECAS) form the Applications Servers layer – the top layer of VNFs architecture.
OCCAS provides an open, standards-based, virtualized converged application platform with integrated SIP and Web capabilities; OCCAS helps customers worldwide reduce the cost and time of developing and deploying carrier-grade, converged applications by over 70%. It enables customers to maximize profitability from existing services, to realize new revenue from innovative converged Web-Telecom applications, and implement new features in their existing enterprise Unified Communication (UC) and contact center networks.
Oracle Communications Evolved Communications Application Server (OCECAS) is is powered by OCCAS as the underlying service engine, leveraging the unrivalled performance, and in-memory data grid technology. OCECAS provides a comprehensive, standards-compliant, out of the box application for VoLTE, ViLTE and VoWiFi that is 100% configurable and extendable. OCECAS increases service agility by embracing DevOps approach to new service rollout using an automated deployment process from testing to staging to production environments. It provides ground-up support for virtualized orchestration and redefines IMS Application Server extensibility and scalability by utilizing cutting-edge Oracle Coherence in-memory data grid technology that preserves service continuity and maintains latency under NFV infrastructure failure conditions.
INTERNET OF THINGS
The Internet of Things has the power to transform every industry. Our telco team, united with de-facto one of the IoT industry’s leaders, French company Actility, is helping carriers, utilities, and enterprises to monitor, manage and control things in a variety use cases, enabling truly inventive business models and generating new revenues. Currently we are focused on LoRa WAN being that it is by far the most cost-effective way to connect things into meaningful applications. The complete offer is based on integration of the Actility ThingPark IoT enabler platform with a selection of components from the ecosystem of many compatible products and solutions from third parties comprising gateways, devices, services and IoT applications.
LPWA Networking
We offer ThingPark Wireless from Actility as a core network management and supervision solution for LPWA connectivity. It enables scalable LPWA networks and interoperable IoT applications and services. ThingPark Wireless supports a range of gateways — outdoor macro-cell, indoor nano-cell, and pico-cells — from leading vendors: Cisco, Multitech, UfiSpace, Kerlink and others. ThingPark OS is a central IoT management service to connect sensors to applications. It includes an operator-dedicated Operations Support System (OSS) tool to manage device and gateway onboarding through network activation, service orchestration and business enablement. ThingPark OS portals give users a set of end-to-end tools to manage both the operational and business layers of the product. These tools are enabled through WEB GUI applications, and are also available through web services to enable flexible and quick 3rd party management capabilities across the various existing roles (Operator, Supplier, Vendor or Subscriber) instantiated over the ThingPark Wireless product. ThingPark X is a data analytics and control framework which exposes data from connected things to applications, and offers off the shelf IoT industrial applications. Easy-to-implement REST APIs make it straightforward for third-party applications to interface with the ThingPark X data management system, enabling operators, device and application developers to support different M2M devices from various suppliers. ThingPark Market is a B2B ecommerce platform aggregating, distributing and connecting IoT devices and applications to the ThingPark platform.
IoT Application Development Enablement
As we are one of them we know that third-party application developers can easily interface with the ThingPark OS data management engine through connectors dedicated to specific external IoT cloud services, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and IBM Bluemix. ThingPark X also makes it possible for multiple application protocols like KNX, WMBus or ZCL to be carried over a LoRaWAN network with a single data storage and access mechanism.
Real-Time IoT Automation
ThingPark includes real-time high-performance algorithms able to control millions of end-points and respond to network and market events with sub-second response time. ThingPark large scale aggregation platforms are used today by Energy DSOs and TSOs to help control power consumption in real time. ThingPark can handle massive amounts of data, performing key features like quota management and automatic secure open data mediation. This function simplifies M2M application development, allowing clients to concentrate on data analysis and representation capabilities rather than storage management.
IoT Applications
TERI’s telco and IT teams are working together on development and deployment of turnkey, bottom-to-top IoT solutions for various verticals: energy & utilities, telecoms, mining, oil and gas, factories, buildings & facilities, agriculture, smart cities, transport and logistics. We start with careful selection of gateways and planning of LPWA network gateway locations. The gateways are deployed and then connected to the core network server and the network is verified. After that we may start developing an end user application and deploying connected devices: environmental sensors, sensors to detect pipe leakage, smoke, pressure, temperature, or water flow meters, power meters etc.
CONVERGED MESSAGING
The world of messaging is not flat anymore. With the fall of SMS, we have seen the rise of popularity of numerous mobile messaging applications which are rich in features and all having rather inevitable downside: dependency on the user’s client, operator, or device and they don’t talk to each other. Propelled by the fact that those OTT services have been literary exploiting service provider networks and harming their revenues, converged messaging solutions have found their way to everyday life. Boosted by Google and global Tier 1 telco’s the development of messaging solutions for Rich Communication Services is getting a quantum leap but not yet reaching full maturity. We propose the solution that will support that step from legacy to the future platforms: converged messaging solutions for RCS, IP Messaging, SMS/MMS, and LTE messaging. We aim to facilitate operators to transform their messaging core and introduce new services to end users with significantly reduced time to market and notably richer user experience.
Rich Messaging
We offer the RCS solution that brings rich messaging services from simple text IM to conversational and group messaging. The messaging application server enables Capability Discovery for multi-device handling and other types of optimizations. The RCS service is extended to non-RCS mobile users vi IPSM gateway providing the SMS and MMS interworking function.
IP Short Message Gateway
IP-SM-GW provides SMS service continuity on LTE and non-cellular IP networks without requiring any changes in 2G/3G systems including existing SMSCs. Regardless of subscriber's device capability or network status, the IP-SM-GW enables end-to-end short message services transparently to subscriber's messaging service experience. IP-SM-GW is a component of its converged messaging platform, Rich Messaging Server (RMS) that delivers truly converged messaging to operators with intelligent routing, policy driven services and multiple domain delivery capabilities.
Short Message Gateway
Short Message Gateway is a 3GPP/3GPP2 compliant SMSC part of the portfolio providing tools for transition to modern messaging services. Designed with idea that once the legacy SMSC reaches the end of life operator’s will still need to maintain certain proportion of SMS traffic, the SM Gateway steps in to take over all of the load but this time with much lower TCO. Since it is a component of the component of the converged messaging platform our offer of SMSC means that by putting it in place of the legacy system an operator is actually taking a first step towards the new age messaging core.
ROAMING SOLUTIONS
Our partner in the domain of roaming services, Tomia is the pioneer of the trade. Their innovative roaming solutions overcome the complex challenges and unexpected obstacles of the hyper-connected world, in order to drive real-time business impact and deliver outstanding user experience. Their aim is to provide one place to manage the wholesale and retail inter-carrier business while deriving more value from the underlying networks. Their solutions help operators create and implement truly global mobile applications.
Intelligent Preferred Network for LTE
This fully automated Steering of Roaming (SoR) product helps operators achieve optimal steering results and meet wholesale discount agreements in LTE and hybrid environments. It recognizes LTE registrations and complies with Circuit Switch (CS) fallback scenarios. IPN LTE also controls 4G devices and SIM PLMN lists, and dynamically sets the preferred partner according to the location, business targets, access technology and device in use.
LTE Campaign Management
For effective marketing campaigns in a diverse roaming environment, the Starhome Mach Sparx4G™ solution is best of breed. Sparx4G employs micro-segmentation to send the correct message to a specific segment, based on those subscribers’ profiles. Sparx takes into consideration subscribers’ devices, the network in which they are roaming and the network technology. Sparx promotes true high speed data access in cities and locations where LTE is available to roamers with heavy data usage patterns.
EU Regulation Solution
Tomia provides a complete solution that will help mobile operators meet the challenges of the new EU “Roam like Home” regulations.
The solution enables operators to minimize the risks of Permanent Roamers and abuse of the Fair Usage Policy (FUP) while being fully compliant with the new regulations. Operators can identify, measure and react to cases of permanent roaming and Fair Usage abuse in Near Real-time and take the indicated appropriate actions based on their business objectives.
Real-Time Anti-Fraud
Starhome Mach’s Real-time Anti-fraud is a worry-free solution that detects and prevents International Revenue Share Fraud (IRSF) in real-time to eliminate fraud losses and protect the MNO’s brand reputation.
Unlike traditional fraud management systems that identify fraud after the fact by analyzing Call Detail Records (CDRs), Starhome Mach identifies fraud while it happens and it stops it in real-time. “Real-time Anti-fraud” was nominated for the 2017 GSMA Global Mobile Awards for Best Mobile Security or Anti-Fraud Solution
OSS/BSS
Proper OSS/BSS system has a crucial role to ensure quality in customer experience and increased efficiency in tomorrow’s world. The world in which end users will want even more speed, in which smart devices will be joining their bits into gigantic force of Big Data, telecommunication services will be software defined, the world in which all that will have to be delivered with ever decreasing price. Fragmented OSS and static BSS are the first place to look for reasons for growing subscriber churn. With the help from experts from Oracle Communications we help operators reach the right balance of pro-active OSS and solid BSS systems in order to cut down service interruptions, activate new services immediately instead in days, and secure accurate charging for subscribers. To double-check how to improve the existing services and where to go next we add to our offer the Customer Experience solutions from Oracle Communications and Zhilabs.
Unified Inventory Management
Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management is an open, standards-based application that provides an intelligent inventory of communications services and resources. Its flexible, extensible architecture enables the rapid design and efficient delivery of customer-centric services along with the management of current and next- generation resources and technologies. UIM enables rapid introduction of current and next-generation services and technologies and facilitates faster time to revenue through pre-built support for complex next generation services. UIM is a seamless extension into NFV with holistic support for both physical and virtualized resources and network services.
Design Studio
Oracle Communications Design Studio is a unified design time environment that accelerates the creation and delivery of Oracle Communications Solutions by providing an efficient, intuitive, and consistent design experience across the various fulfillment and resource management applications within the Oracle Communications portfolio. It is a graphical, integrated development environment for the design, deployment, and testing of integrated, multi-application OSS solutions. Design Studio simplifies the creation of metadata specifying order decomposition and orchestration rules in order management, inventory specifications, design / assign rules and discovery / reconciliation rules in inventory, and configuration of composite and atomic task translations in activation. It enables development collaboration and solution packaging, versioning and deployment with reduced time to market for new services.
Order and Service Management
Oracle Communications OSM enables Communications Service Providers to design and manage the fulfillment of customer orders for both traditional and increasingly digital services through their entire lifecycle. OSM is a key component of Oracle Communications’ “Concept to Cash” solutions which enable service providers to quickly design and launch new B2B and B2C services and manage the delivery of the order across participating business and operational systems as well as partners in order to fulfill the order. OSM organically couples with the Cross-Channel Customer Experience system performing the role of the Central Order Orchestration which ensure exact and swift delivery of customer orders.
Operations Monitor
Operations Monitor is part of an end-to-end network visibility and monitoring software system that increases the ROI of Long Term Evolution (LTE), IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), voice over IP (VoIP), and unified communications (UC) deployments and provides an unprecedented view of the network for both operations management and in depth troubleshooting. The Operations Monitor enables enterprises and service providers to quickly and securely deploy IP communications networks, reduce operational costs, generate additional revenue and minimize churn. As a proactive call monitoring solution, Oracle Communications Operations Monitor captures and analyzes all required signaling messages and media from the network, providing full correlation and quality metrics in real time. It also enables easy-to-use, drill-down troubleshooting for root-cause analysis of any reported problem related to a user, user group, trunk, network device, or Internet Protocol (IP) address.
Billing and Revenue Management
In a dynamic environment in which customer expectations and behaviors are changing rapidly, service providers are faced with many business challenges. Yet, this environment provides more opportunity for innovation than ever before. Service Providers are achieving greater service and offer personalization while improving profitability by leveraging Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management, a solution that radically improves time to market for new services, lowers operational costs by managing, monetizing, and maximizing revenue streams for any customer type, service offering, partner relationship, payment method, business model, or geography. To support such innovation, Oracle Communications BRM provides a fully convergent charging and billing system to manage the entire revenue management lifecycle. BRM is designed to support multiple business segments and business models from a single platform including B2C, B2B, and B2B2C. It includes innovative, intelligent, policy-driven charging capabilities that create compelling competitive differentiation. To keep service providers’ peace of mind the BRM built as a single optimized charging and revenue management platform capable providing extreme performance and massive throughput for convergent workloads.
Elastic Charging Engine
Smart devices, increasing fixed and mobile broadband speeds, and data consumption are changing consumer’s behavior and the way businesses operate. Charging for service and data usage now requires extreme real-time processing, for instant and personalized customer notifications, policy-based quality of service, and hybrid prepaid and postpaid charging plans. The Oracle Communications Elastic Charging Engine redefines real-time charging with extreme performance, inherent high availability, dynamic scalability and low cost, efficient operations. It is an always on, 100% real-time solution for prepaid and postpaid charging for all services on a single system. It enables operators to charge for high volumes of usage events with minimal infrastructure footprint that is based on built-in high availability technology. This same technology allows for zero-downtime upgrades.
Unified Cross-Channel Customer Experience
Communication Service Providers around the world are looking for ways to improve their services in order to be able to offer an engaging Customer Experience (CX) so that they may expand their customer base, retain existing customers, and monetize on these relationships. To achieve these benefits CSPs need to address CX at all customer touch points. Oracle has developed the CX Reference Architecture for Communications to help CSPs deliver a superior experience to their customers in all touch points throughout the Customer Experience lifecycle. The Oracle CX reference Architecture is founded on proven solutions and best-in-class applications and will enable CSPs to adopt a holistic approach to Customer Experience across standard processes from front office channels to back-office operations.
Customer Experience Management
Powered by the Big Data Application Server, Zhilab’s Vista is a complete virtualized customer experience analytics and management solution. Vista provides service operators with real-time information about how the subscribers experience the network, with insight into problems related to over-the-top services. Vista will enhance response time to problems, increase the QoS perceived by subscribers and maximize the business impact of network upgrades. Service providers which use the Vista tools gain deeper knowledge of subscriber interests and activities, unveil new revenue sources and track and boost the adoption of new services. Vista revolutionary technology can collect massive data at wire-speed, directly from the packet data network and from any OSS/BSS source, correlate it, apply advanced analytics in real-time and act back on the Network.