In today’s competitive
telecommunications environment, interconnect rates can change on a daily basis.
This makes the search for the optimal route ever more important, as operators
seek to minimise costs and enhance service quality. The InterconnecT Optimised
Routing (OR) software product enhances your business by helping you optimise
routing decisions. It automates various complex tasks and gives you more
control, providing advanced decision support capabilities to help you make the
most of your interconnect business.
Why do you need InterconnecT
Optimised Routing from Intec?
- It maximises your operating margin for
the services you offer.
- It enables the introduction of new
services to build new revenue streams.
- It enhances your competitiveness to
future-proof your business.
As an operator providing voice and data services
in today’s competitive telecommunications market you will recognise that
effective interconnect management is critical to the success of your business.
The dynamic processes of trading, delivery, performance and billing are all
paramount to this success. Intec is the leading supplier of interconnect billing
systems in the world. With InterconnecT Optimised Routing, Intec aims to provide
its customers with a world beating solution for the other three processes.
Why choose InterconnecT
Optimised Routing?
InterconnecT Optimised Routing is a complete and integrated system supporting
all the dynamic processes associated with trading & routing management.
- It is fully compatible and shares data
with Intec’s InterconnecT billing solution.
- It supports integration with switches
from many different vendors to manage complex services in most network
environments.
- It is a highly modular and scalable
system allowing you to build a solution around your operational needs
and budget.
- It is a proven solution and all the
primary system components are actively used today by a global customer
base.
Wholesale Trading
InterconnecT Optimised Routing provides you with a complete solution for the
trading of minutes of traffic with your interconnect partners. It keeps you
informed about changes that affect your profitability allowing you to be more
responsive and therefore competitive. It supports rate negotiation with
suppliers and price setting with customers with the aim of maximizing your
margin on all transactions. InterconnecT Optimised Routing handles many
different types of agreements including flat rate, time-of-day, volume, swap and
bilateral agreements. Importantly, the system is able to utilise data from
InterconnecT (i.e. billing) and its knowledge of the actual routing plans in the
network to improve the relevance and integrity of the decisions it makes.
Wholesale Routing
Routing of interconnected traffic is about configuring your network to deliver
the required service to your customers, while maximising your operating margin.
Depending on your current efficiency levels, InterconnecT Optimised Routing
could improve your overall productivity by as much as 60%. With the extensive
knowledge of routing management in networks Intec can show you how to build new
revenue streams by introducing new services while maintaining network integrity.
The primary control mechanism for delivery is routing management since this
determines how traffic leaves your network, which in turn determines your cost
base.
InterconnecT Optimised Routing supports all the
primary delivery processes of:
- Determining an optimal routing plan
- Implementing the plan in the network
- Using network measurements to fine-tune
the plan.
InterconnecT Optimised Routing can be readily
adapted to meet your operational needs. Its decision support capability ranges
from simple least cost routing with a quality bias to a fully optimised routing
plan based on a range of parameters including cost, quality, volumes, capacity,
margin and different agreement types.
It supports full destination prefix management and the automatic mapping of
carrier prefixes to a network constrained numbering plan. It supports
differential routing for different customer and traffic types. Change
implementation in the network is supported for a range of different vendor’s
switches. Depending on the capability of the switch, it handles script
generation, download and activation in the network.
Wholesale Performance
InterconnecT Optimised Routing provides tools to generate quality and volume
measurements from call detail records and switch statistics. This data is used
to raise near real-time alarms as well as produce aggregated measurements as an
input to the decision support process. InterconnecT Optimised Routing compares
data from different processes in the system and data in InterconnecT to
determine how well your business is performing. It provides measurements that
enable you to benchmark performance improvements to help you continually strive
for increased productivity and profitability. Cleverly, it is able to relate
data from the different destination prefix structures supported across
InterconnecT Optimised Routing. In all there are three different destination
structures: Customer (who you sell traffic to), Supplier (who you buy traffic
from) and network switches). All these have different destination breakouts that
need to be considered.
By relating this data with rated summary data
from InterconnecT, the system can provide:
- Margin Analysis
- Routing Efficiency Analysis
- Carrier Trend Analysis
- Customer Price Analysis.
The solution –
InterconnecT Optimised Routing
The product inter-works with your existing interconnect billing and mediation
platforms. It is both modular and scalable and can be readily adapted to suit
your way of working. It supports the following functionality:
- Management of the dialing plan from
carriers and in the network
- Tools to support the process of buying
and selling of minutes of traffic i.e. trading
- Basic Least Cost Routing or advanced
Optimal Routing in which many parameters are considered
- Automate the programming of complex
routing structures in the network
- Network mapping and the programming of
routing commands into many switch types
- Analysis of CDRs (Call Detail Records)
to determine carrier quality and traffic volume measures to influence
routing
- Analysis of billing summary data to
determine business performance measures associated with services. Some
examples include; differential routing by customer groups, time-of-day
or traffic type. InterconnecT Optimised Routing is a complete and
integrated solution, which can be packaged in many different ways
depending on your specific operational needs and budget.
The InterconnecT Optimised Routing product
consists of five different modules:
InterconnecT OR Manager
Generates wholesale business performance reports to help benchmark overall
performance & target routing inefficiencies.
InterconnecT OR Selector
Determines an optimised routing plan and destination breakout to improve
responsiveness and minimize routing costs.
InterconnecT OR Trader
Supports the buying and selling of minutes to help manage operating margin as
your cost base fluctuates.
InterconnecT OR Programmer
Programs routing instructions in the network elements to increase productivity
by enabling more routing changes more frequently.
InterconnecT OR Monitor
Produces near real-time carrier quality and traffic volume metrics to improve
the quality of the carrier selection decisions.
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