For many years telephony value-added services where part of the network domain. This network centric approach was excellent for simple mass-market intelligent network value-added services, such as 800 numbers, but is not really suited for the emerging generation of networks. What is now needed, is a platform that combines the benefits of the network centric approach of economies of scale and reliability, with the creativity and flexibility of the IT industry.

Xphere3G is Telco-grade platform conforming to telephony providers' requirements for high-availability, reliability, scalability, performance and security. Xphere3G is one of the few existing platforms that can smoothly scale from a very small system to a system handling very large traffic volumes with the same software and architecture, while enabling to simultaneously run multiple different solutions. Xphere3G open architecture is based on industry-standard protocols, facilitaring interoperability and integration with telephony and IT networks regardless of the underlying technology.

Xphere-3G Benefits

New Revenues

Xphere-3G brings value to telephony service providers by substantially increasing the spectrum of traditional and emergent value-added solutions thought to increase the ARPU and the customers' attraction and retention.

Costs and Time to Market reduction

To overcome costs and time to market limitations, Xphere-3G provides a complete development environment meant to considerably reduce the time required to develop and test any new value-added solution. Its convergent technology provides a stable and standard boundary that isolates services from the continuous changes and chaos that occur at the lower layers of the network. This means that no matter what changes are inflicted to the operators' core network level, little or no changes will have to be applied at the service level.

Fast Return On Investment

Our Roaming and Messaging value-added solutions use our own tested technology and platform, and do not require extensive development, acceptance or production resources and time. The end result is a very rapid return on investment for most of these solutions whether they are off-the-shelf or custom-designed.

New Business Strategies

Using Xphere-3G allows settling new business strategies where network operators, service providers, and users will profit from the huge possibility brought by new, convergent technologies. With Xphere-3G new solutions targeted to specific market segments can be produced that were either previously not technically feasible and/or where unprofitable because of their high cost.

Reduced Risk

By using our existing and heavily tested products and technology the risk involved in the development and deployment of any value-added solution is considerably reduced.

Xphere-3G Main Features

Xphere-3G offers a carrier grade environment suitable for telecommunication value-added solution thanks to features such as the following:

Multi-Solution

Xphere-3G gives a clear advantage to telephony providers by offering them the possibility to provide several value-added solutions with the same Xphere-3G platform. Any combination of value-added solutions can simultaneously provide service by sharing the same proven platform: Xphere-3G.

Multi-Media over a wide spectrum of technologies

As a next-generation platform Xphere-3G is supports emerging more sophisticated value-added solutions requiring the convergence of different medias (voice, messaging & data) and using different SS7-MTP2/MTP3/SCCP, INAP, CAMEL, Sigtran, OSA/Parlay, SIP, SMPP, etc., technologies.

Scalability

Engineered to evolve with our clients' needs, Xphere-3G can seamlessly grow and evolve to keep with an expanding list of value-added solutions. Its scalability allows our clients to start purchasing a platform really suited to their needs and upgrade it as their customers, traffic, and other requirements grow. The platform's configuration is decided based on specific economical and technical issues rather than on any physical or functional limitation.

Availability

To reduce the services' mean unavailability time, Xphere-3G offers redundant configurations where all the critical hardware and software is replicated. As well as providing a higher level of service availability, replication can be used to address scalability requirements, through load sharing (n+1) architectures, and as a basis for on-line upgrade procedures, at both the hardware and software levels.

High Performance

Xphere-3G high performance is achieved using an elaborated programming methodology, a very fast and distributed communication-media as well as market-leading middleware and hardware components.

Easy To Manage

Xphere-3G has an extensive management and monitoring graphical tool for administrators to control and provision the platform in real-time and obtain useful node, traffic, users, etc., statistics. Xphere-3G management tools are thought to detect and respond to problems quickly onsite or remotely and to operate the whole platform and its solutions very easily from a single point.

Easy to Upgrade

Telephony service providers must continuously deploy new solutions to stay competitive. They typically install several services on the same platform to reduce the total cost, and require that any newly deployed solution does not cause existing profitable services to fail.

Xphere-3G is conceived to ensure a continuous evolution of its physical and functional components and to deploy new value-added solutions without causing already existent services to be stopped or to fail.