Overview
Technological progress, such as 5G and IoT, paves the way for novel business models and invites new players into the communications industry, bringing forth fresh prospects and hurdles for established companies. The long-standing systems in use by these incumbents, established over many years, lack flexibility and result in substantial expenses when upgrades are required. Adhering to the “status quo” could lead to revenue loss.
The industry requires a fundamental shift in perspective regarding BSS (Business Support System) and OSS (Operations Support System).
Our solution centers on cloud-native BSS components that adhere to ODA, Open API, and TMform standards, offering the following benefits:
- Protects existing investments
- Shields Charging systems from data volumes
- Provides seamless scalability
- Cloud-ready
- Network Slicing
- Deployment flexibility
- Flexibility to evolve
- Enable new revenue streams
Business Challenges
Telecommunication operators seeking to generate revenue from convergent 4G and 5G services, as well as new 5G use cases like Network Slicing, encounter significant challenges:
- Scalability for High Volumes
- Low Latency
- Highly Performant Charging
- Flexibility to Support Network Slice Offers
- Regulatory and Security Concerns
- Adapting to 3GPP 5G standards
- Cloud Native Online charging for flexible deployment
- Standardized APIs among different interacting parties
Solution
Telco Network Charging Platform – 4G & 5G
Key advantages:
- Vendor Agnostic
- North-Bound Integrations using TMForum OpenAPI
- South-bound integrations based on 3GPP Standards
- Cloud Born
- Runs on Any Cloud Infrastructure
- Kubernetes container app
- Multi-Tenant – One Instance – Many Operators
- Deployments in less than 2 hours
- Lower Costs
- Configuration Driven
- Easier to Maintain
- Order2Cash Business Workflows Optimized
Key features:
- Enabled for 4G & 5G traffic
- Usage tracking & management
- Quota management / Network metering
- Customer Management
- Subscription management
- Pricing plans
- Charging Events management
Impact/Outcome
Telcos will experience better outcomes on three dimensions:
- Lower costs for the new system
- Increase in revenues
- Better customer experiences.
Lower costs:
- Speed of dev & deployment
- App creation with vetted components
- Consume less resources
- Containers microservice portable
- Easy to move workloads
- Availability No downtime
- Hybrid deployments – reduced risks
Increase in revenues:
- Faster service delivery
- Innovations
- New revenue streams
- More customers
- more sales
- Virtuous Business cycle
Customer experience:
- Experience faster fixes
- Quick new features
- Improved responses to demands
- Minimal service disruption