Ever since the advent of telephony, service providers and operators around the world have grappled with the problem of interconnectivity for service reach and subscriber access. With mobile subscribers increasing to over 2 billion, the problem has become exacerbated, with increasing demands for reach and roaming. Mobile operators initially resorted to bilateral interconnect agreements to ensure that interconnectivity exists for voice applications. However, with the explosive growth of mobile broadband IP networks, global interconnectivity for data applications such as email and web browsing have become paramount. Mobile operators are reacting to this by adopting a structure that consolidates the number of interconnects and increased efficiency. This has been referred to as “hubbing” and is a common practice for interconnecting mobile data networks today – as evidenced by GPRS Roaming Exchange (GRX) and Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) hubbing networks. With the explosive growth of mobile IP communications and services, mobile operators are now rolling out a new services architecture called the IP packet eXchange (IPX) under the auspices of the GSMA to provide voice and multimedia services such as video sharing, conferencing, presence and gaming, that supports flexible interconnect paradigms, including service hubbing, transit, and service transit.
Verscom offers IPX solutions to mobile operators, fixed operators and IPX carriers allowing them to interconnect through multiple modalities – transit, service transit and service hub, that enables efficient IP interconnects that will enable rapid service delivery and a fair value chain for the service transit such as messaging, video share and gaming. Verscom’s intelligent solutions at the network edge meet challenges for security, billing and settlement, service level agreement (SLA) support, IP session routing, network quality of service (QoS), interoperability, and call admission control.
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