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call session control

Carriers are always evolving their networks and adding or consolidating new infrastructure. pulse’s Intelligent Network Platform (INP) addresses the need for carriers to maintain existing backend billing and OSS while bridging in new network and protocol types. The pulseINP session control function allows carriers to connect different network/protocols (AIN, SIP, SS7, CAMEL, SIGTRAN) to existing OSS/BSS through various open standard methods (SOAP, XML, HTTP, DIAMETER, TCP/IP, CUSTOM API, ODBC, JDBC, ESPP, SOAP/XML).

OSS/BSS providers who require the ability to affect their customers’ networks in real-time can take advantage of the pulseINP to provide call session control. The pulseINP provides a multi-protocol (AIN, SIP, SS7, CAMEL, SIGTRAN, ENUM) interface to the network and seamless OSS/BSS integration using various open standard methods (SOAP, XML, HTTP, DIAMETER, TCP/IP, CUSTOM API, ODBC, JDBC, ESPP).

Challenges Facing CSPs:

Termination charges (long distance, toll free phone charges, etc.) are dropping on a daily basis and this provides carriers with a constant challenge to stay competitive and retain subscribers. To tackle this challenge, carriers are forced to find ways of lowering costs, by dealing with multiple suppliers. Carriers are also looking to automate hundreds of man hour tasks as well as ways to manage their entire network in real time and reduce fraud. pulse offers some unique solutions to tackle these and other challenges as listed below.

• NPA or NPANXX routing only
• Limited records capability in switches
• Manual processes for the manipulation and translation of different rate decks
• On-net/off-net routing challenges
• No real-time view of entire network
• No easy way to manage entire network
• Number portability
• Fraud controls

pulse solutions can offers operators innovative solutions for routing, fraud, number translation and other such requirements. Some of the features and benefits provided are as follows:

• Real-time view into an entire network
• Centralize management of an entire network
• Nth digit routing capability
• NPA NXX, LATA/OCN, LATA/tier rate formats supported
• Any supplier provided rate decks supported
• On-net/off-net routing supported over inter-machine trunks (IMT)
• Quality routing
• Percentage routing
• Trunk utilization based routing
• Number portability based routing
• Fraud detection/threshold setting capability
• Number translation (800, special numbers, CIC, etc.) supported
• Any custom routing requirements supported

For more information, please see our Intelligent Routing section or contact us.