In today’s market environment, both domestic and international long distance service providers are increasingly turning to VoIP and IP-based networks in order to reduce costs and provide increased flexibility of their interconnect routes with peering partners and customers. Proliferation of packet voice networks is driving the need for direct IP connectivity between different carrier networks. However, this transformation stipulates supporting interconnection and peering between networks with diverse technologies, protocols and signaling standards. In addition to that carriers continue to have lingering concerns about security, reliability and accounting that has hampered the large-scale deployment of IP peering solutions.
Service provider network boundaries occur at the points in which they connect with other service providers or customers. These network edges provide a host of security and interoperability challenges that are getting increasingly complex for operators. The interconnect edge occurs at the point in which operators interconnect with other operators. These edges are complicated by the need to route traffic based on a variety of network, business, and performance factors; the increasingly diverse network configurations and protocol implementations; and the need to interconnect new advanced IP-based services. This is further complicated by the movement to new interconnect business models as more operators move away from traditional interconnects based on Public Switched Telecommunications Network (PSTN) arrangements and toward unique bilateral or multilateral peering arrangements.
The Verscom Carrier IP Voice Peering Solution
Verscom Carrier IP Voice Peering solutions are designed to enable the operator to seamlessly simplify, secure, and scale the network edge in order to facilitate network and business growth. Verscom comprehensive solution line fully addresses the security, routing, billing and protocol interworking requirements for peering across different IP networks, which enables speed to revenue by reducing CAPEX and OPEX, facilitates interoperability, and accelerates installation and turn-up.
The Verscom Solution comprises robust and highly programmable session routing engine that directs real-time sessions over network interconnects and offers service providers advanced session routing capabilities such as dynamic route hunting, adaptive routing, and least cost routing. This session routing engine is unique to industry, allowing service providers to dynamically route traffic to other service provider partners based on call completion rates, route profit, and route availability. The sophisticated call routing intelligence of the solution greatly reduces the complexity of IP-IP session routing and management for faster delivery of real-time IP services such as voice, video, and multimedia. The Verscom Solution provides policy enforcement capabilities that enable service providers to traffic-engineer their IP networks at the session layer for managed service assurance. The power of policy enforcement capabilities is rooted in the platform’s ability to logically associate traffic management policies with endpoint devices while statefully monitoring device usage and applying policy at network ingress and egress points. The intelligence of the platform enhances call routing for optimized call destination selection and optimization of high-value resources.
The Verscom Interconnect Solution Platform is designed to provide industry-leading performance and reliability. The exceptional performance is due to the solutions unique architecture, which facilitates high-performance IP-IP session routing. This approach provides unique signaling performance and flexibility that enables the Verscom solution to sustain high call rates and excellent call quality.
The Verscom Interconnect Solution provides session management with intelligent session management platform, which supports Element Management System (EMS) functionality as well as a broad set of session management capabilities, which, when combined with the core switching and routing applications, allows service providers to achieve new levels of performance for their next generation and IMS networks.
Benefits of Complete Session Management Features
The Verscom IP Interconnect solution provides session visibility and optimization by monitoring session-based VoIP interconnects and responding to changes in session volume, quality, and cost.
Session Analytics: SDRs are processed to extract detailed performance measures per session monitoring
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Listening and conversational R-Factor, Jitter, Latency, and Packet Loss Metrics
Service Quality metrics such as Post Dial Delay (PDD), Answer Seizure Ratio (ASR) and cause codes
Service Economics (e.g., Profit/Loss per Service Region, Customer, Route)
Route Policy Management: Solution includes support for establishing policies to handle session routing at call establishment. Its automated support for route prioritization allows wholesale VoIP operators to leverage the built-in adaptive routing depending on policies based on bandwidth performance, cost, profits requirements
Least-Cost Routing (LCR), Lossless LCR (LLCR): Cost and revenue-based session routing for wholesale and International Long Distance (ILD) operators. The LLCR application provides real-time comparisons between supplier and subscriber rates to determine profitable route choices.
Efficient Provisioning and Administration: Multiple efficient provisioning options to accelerate service deployment including EMS with FCAPS functionality.
Engineering and Business Reporting: Two classes of reports are supported – Engineering Reports and Business Reports.
Session and Service Alarming: Operator-defined and threshold-applicable alarms based on session-specific performance and business metrics.
Partitioning: Virtual partitioning for shared subscriber management of access to and consumption of resources at the services layer.
