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Veraz ControlSwitch is a proven IP softswitch and service delivery platform that meets the challenge of converging current and future communication services onto a single IMS compliant Multi-Service Access Network. The system is composed of approximately a dozen IMS-compatible software modules that together operate on SUN servers and can be efficiently scaled based on the operator’s traffic growth. ControlSwitch enables the cost-effective deployment of scalable, distributed, and high availability networks using common off the shelf (COTS) hardware platforms.
Veraz ControlSwitch’s ability to support multiple applications - traditional toll/tandem and local voice services, as well as new, converged multi-media services allows service providers to cost-effectively solve current network challenges, while empowering them to more rapidly capture new revenue opportunities through new service introduction. By leveraging extensible service frameworks and web-based tools and interfaces, service providers and third-party developers are able to more rapidly create, deploy and customize new services with reduced capital and operational expenditures.
The widely-deployed Veraz ControlSwitch offers on-the-fly programmability for both network services and subscriber services. The programmable services engine of ControlSwitch empowers customers to design, develop, manage, deploy, activate, and tailor their service offerings thus, to provide market differentiation. Veraz ControlSwitch’s programmability can be leveraged to provide customized policies which result in higher operational efficiencies or to deliver on required service level agreements. ControlSwitch can also be leveraged to decrease subscriber churn through personalized service offerings within the Veraz Application Server or via innovative third-party application servers. Additionally, the architecture ensures a long lasting and cost efficient evolution path for core services.
ControlSwitch enables service providers to achieve market differentiation by:
Built around a distributed, high-availability architecture, the ControlSwitch offers leading edge performance, supporting installations with as few as a thousand users to global systems serving millions. Sophisticated software fail-over and recovery mechanisms include device level, network link level and geographic redundancy. A robust, web-based management system provides the efficiency of centralized management with the flexibility of a distributed system. Built-in back office system interfaces reduce systems integration and ongoing operating costs.
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Fully distributed, modular architecture with high scalability |
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- Delivers scalability via modular elements that can be scaled independently
- Scalability with granularity delivers efficient solution for both small and large networks
- Leading edge flexibility in network design via geographic distribution of elements
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High availability architecture with geographic, device level, network level and SS7 link redundancy and flexible sparing and load sharing capabilities |
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- Self-healing distributed system software protects against localized failures
- Geographic redundancy protects against geographic disaster
- Maintains established calls via 1:1 active-standby or more cost effective 1:n sparing
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Management System supporting unified management of distributed network |
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- Delivers efficiency of centralized management with flexibility of distributed system
- Enables end-to-end network troubleshooting and diagnostics for lower cost of operations
- Remote access via any web browser enhances simplicity of network operations management
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Built-in PL-SQL API, SNMP and CORBA management interfaces |
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- Allows seamless integration into existing and new back office systems
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With its ability to support multiple applications, policy-based routing capabilities, simple Web-based tools and open application interfaces, ControlSwitch enables service providers to improve their operational efficiencies, offer new revenue-generating services and quickly create and deploy new multi-media services in response to changing end-user demand.
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Multi-service softswitch with support for both core network-side and line-side services |
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- Delivers single platform for wireline tandem, wireless tandem, domestic and international enhanced long-distance and IMS user services
- Reduces operational overhead over single service solutions
- Enables flexible support of existing voice and new, integrated multi-media services
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Highly flexible, policy-based routing engine |
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- Allows dynamic customization of routing plans based on a rich set of routing/screening parameters which result in higher operational efficiencies
- Enables creation of complex, multi-tiered routing policies to support complex interconnection business arrangements and SLAs
- Support for multiple numbering plans enables deployment of routing services over regional, national or global networks
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H.323-, SIP, and XML-based open interfaces with web-based development tools |
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- Delivers enhanced services via third party application servers
- Enables rapid application development by service providers and third party developers
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Events Collector for flexible billing |
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- Text-based CDR for next-generation billing applications and mediation platforms
- BAF compliant for the integration of existing billing systems
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IMS compliant Veraz ControlSwitch softswitch and SDP together with the Veraz I-Gate 4000 Media Gateway product family enable both coexistence with and smooth migration from an existing TDM to an IMS Multi-Service Network. Veraz offers a programmable, layered (application, network and control layers) design that enables operators to migrate each of these layers independently at their own pace.
Unlike typical solutions, the ControlSwitch enables the step by step migration of an operator's services, switching and transport network to IMS while taking into account not only existing voice-only capable customers but also newer broadband-ready, multi-media capable users. Service continuity reduces the technological and financial risks of evolving complex networks to IMS.
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Service/Application Integration via Multi-protocol support |
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- IMS and traditional protocol compliance allows the re-utilization of the same services across different devices and networks
- Enables operators to gradually migrate from their legacy infrastructures to an IMS-compliant NGN architecture at their own pace
- The layered design leverages new devices as they become available but is not dependent on subscriber adoption of new devices and behavior
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Built-in Management and Operational Integration |
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- Improved service levels from simplified and centralized operations as well as advanced OAMP capabilities
- Operators can reduce their operational expenditures through lower manpower requirements, increased productivity, more efficient problem troubleshooting and self-healing capabilities
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Service Richness for Higher Subscriber Loyalty |
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- Churn reduction can be achieved by delivering new services (e.g. enhanced messaging, conferencing, and many more), via either in-house or third-party applications
- Built-in programmability enables flexible customization and branding
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New Revenue Generation via Service Combinations |
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- The Veraz SDP enables operators to rapidly mix new and existing applications in order to efficiently create a unique “combinational service”
- Enables operators to experiment with different applications and find the right combination for each customer segment
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