Carriers and service providers are able to establish direct connections and relationships with operators in other territories so that they can offer competitive international rates to other service providers and to call shops. To manage carrier wholesale services successfully, a solution is needed that supports a range of IP and TDM carrier interface technologies and includes least cost carrier routing, multiple service profiles, wholesale customer account management and real-time rating and balance management. The DIGITALK Multiservice Platform incorporates all these features and is widely deployed with carriers and service providers to enable them to extend their service portfolio with a competitive prepaid wholesale service.

BENEFITS

The DIGITALK Multiservice Platform enables carriers and service providers to achieve the full benefits of wholesale services, including:

• Gain incremental revenue from established carrier relationships and points of presence by offering international destinations to local service providers and call shop owners
• Enable a full wholesale brokering service with multiple QoS levels and signaling / media conversion
• Minimize credit risk by offering prepaid wholesale services or postpaid accounts with real-time credit control
• Maximise margins with flexible tariff options and comprehensive least cost routing control
• Increase market share while maintaining carrier security with reseller partitions

FEATURES

With a background of widespread solution deployment, the DIGITALK Multiservice Platform offers a broad range of features for a complete prepaid carrier wholesale service, including:

• Multiple carrier interface options, including SIP, H.323, SS7, ISUP, with support for regional variations
• Sophisticated least cost routing catering for multiple routing options and carrier-specific settings
• Signalling / media conversion to enable traffic brokering between different carrier types
• IP media transcoding, including support for G.711 mu- and a-law, G.723, G.723.1, G.729A and B
• Support for Number portability and ENUM
• Configurable answer tone settings for different call shop auto-diallers
• Multiple call shop lines with prepaid charging and real-time account balance management
• Real-time rating for prepaid services and postpaid credit control
• On-line carrier status and traffic monitoring
• Reports for network and business performance
• CDR generation for off-line billing and reporting
• Agent partitioning to enable multi-layered reseller relationships