Voice interconnect traffic
trading has recently become a very difficult
and risky business due to several market changes; these include
decreasing margins, massive competition and aggressive carriers’
strategies. The last factor has been rapidly growing and quite often
skirts the edges of business fair-play rules. In order to prevent
unexpected revenue loss and secure business stability, carriers have to
equip their networks with highly sophisticated interconnect business
support solutions.
Current market situation puts
strong requirements on the voice carriers
to optimize their business processes, demanding
significant improvements in the areas such as business analysis and
optimal supplier selection, numbering management, network
configuration and fraud prevention.
The simplified interconnect
business process includes the following steps:
- Negotiate suppliers' prices,
leading to
a new price plan
- Load the price plans into
a tool
- Analyse and compare various
routes both on cost and call quality
- Update routing on switches
- Build your own offer with a
new pricing and sell termination
- Calculate billing, generate
own and analyse suppliers' invoices and similarly declarations
The above process is handled on
daily bases for different destinations,
product and carriers. Number of business condition changes is very
high, causing data analysis and optimization tasks impossible to be
handled without a dedicated interconnect support system.
DOT Systems’ pathfinderNG solution
delivers to voice interconnect carriers complete support and extensive
automation
of their interconnect related business processes. Among many others,
the most beneficial functionalities are:
- Automated tariffs upload and
analysis,
- Real-time interconnect
business monitoring,
- Fraud surveillance and
detection,
- Complete end-to-end voice
traffic trading process support,
- Automation in network
management.
