Verax Oss/Bss Suite - Product Presentation

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Verax OSS/BSS Suite Product overview

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The Verax OSS/BSS Suite is a service delivery platform (SDP) allowing Communication Service Providers (CSPs) to define, provision, monitor and bill services in convergent, multi-play, telco 2.0 environments. The OSS/BSS Suite enables CSPs to retain ARPU, prevent churn and generate additional revenue streams through rapid development of new services.

About Verax OSS/BSS

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Business rationale

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Verax OSS/BSS Suite is a crossbreed between

a development framework and COTS

software, enabling rapid development of

bespoke telco solutions with typical 1:1

license vs. service cost ratio.

It is targeted for CSP needing rapid

deployment of new services at affordable

price („telecom-in-a-box” approach).

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Exemplary solutions built on the OSS/BSS Suite

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The OSS/BSS Suite has been successfully used to deliver:

Provisioning systems for DSL, VoIP and HFC networks.

Provisioning and billing of applications in the SaaS

model.

Data retention solutions.

Provisioning validation systems.

AAA management: user traffic analysis and usage policy

enforcements on DSL devices.

Data Center Management solutions.

Large optical & ATM network management solutions.


Verax OSS/BSS Suite vs. TMF OSS/BSS stack

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Typical o

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lication

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BSS Stack

Rating

Customer facing

Billing

Customer mgmt.

Inter- connect

settlement

Fraud mgmt. (FM)

Revenue assurance

(RA)

Product mgmt.

Business Intelligence

(BI)

Payment gateways

Fulfillment

Network facing

Fault Confi-

guration Accounting

Perfor- mance

Security

Lifecycle

Provisio- ning

Inventory C-EIR

Service assurance

OSS Stack


Implemented & available

BSS parts that are customer driven and currently not or partially implemented

OSS parts that are customer driven and currently not or partially implemented

Verax OSS/BSS Suite vs. TMF OSS/BSS stack

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Typical o

perato

r app

lication

s

BSS Stack

Rating

Customer facing

Billing

Customer mgmt.

Inter- connect

settlement

Fraud mgmt. (FM)

Revenue assurance

(RA)

Product mgmt.


(BI)

Payment gateways

Fulfillment

Network facing

Fault Confi-

guration Accounting

Perfor- mance

Security

Lifecycle

Provisio- ning

Inventory C-EIR

Service assurance

OSS Stack

Billing (BCC)

Customer mgmt. – BCC/TT

Product mgmt.

(PC)


(AC + reports)

Fault (NMS)

Confi- guration (NMS)

Accounting (NMS/AAAM)

Perfor- mance (NMS)

Security (NMS)

Provisio- ning

(PROV/AAAM)

Service Assurance

(AC + reports)


Implemented & available

BSS parts that are customer driven and currently not or partially implemented

OSS parts that are customer driven and currently not or partially implemented

OSS level: Network Management System (NMS),

AAA Manager (AAAM), Provisioning (VPS).

BSS level: Product Catalogue (PC), Billing &

Customer Care (BCC), Self-care Portal (SCP), Trouble

Ticketing (TT).

Core system: Administrative console (AC), platform

(user management, security, business reporting,

batch manager), Workflow and KPI Dashboard.

OSS/BSS Suite applications


NMS (veraxsystems.com/en/products/ossbss#nms) is a highly scalable IP and other network management (3GPP, CORBA, TL1, Q3/CMIP) system featuring full FCAPS (fault, configuration, accounting, performance, security) functionality and network visualization using map services. The NMS supports rules-based business logic for tasks like alarm correlations, generating system events, notifications and others.

OSS level: NMS


http://www.veraxsystems.com/en/products/ossbss



AAA Manager (veraxsystems.com/en/products/ossbss#aaamanager) is a GUI front-end allowing seamless management provisioning on multiple AAA servers such as Radius, Diameter and others. AAA Manager helps network operators to provision and manage AAA users and groups across distributed servers, manage attribute templates as well as generate cross-server graphical charts and reports on usage and sessions.

OSS level: AAA Manager





Workflow Manager is a GUI front-end allowing for process management enabling creation and control of provisioning flows, IT service assurance processes, disaster recovery and others. Workflow Manager employs jBPM to execute business processes defined by BPMN 2.0.

OSS level: Workflow Manager


Product Catalog (PC, veraxsystems.com/en/products/ossbss#pc) allows CSPs to describe and manage their product offering. It allows to manage product categories, items and package bundles in an easy, graphical and intuitive way. The PC can handle both products (i.e. hardware) and services (e.g. voice calls), one-time and recurring charges, fixed as well as dynamic ratings.

BSS level: Product Catalog





Self-care Portal (SCP, veraxsystems.com/en/products/ossbss#scp) allows CSPs to reduce customer care and call center costs by allowing users to manage their subscription (e.g. activate new services) and easily access the call center. It also improves and reduces costs of client communication and increases customer loyalty.

BSS level: Self-Care Portal





Verax Billing and Customer Care (BCC, veraxsystems.com/en/products/ossbss#bcc) enables CSPs to bill their customers for products and services.


BSS level: Billing & Customer Care

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Verax Trouble Ticketing is an issue tracking system that enables management and maintenance of incidents. Trouble ticketing is tied with other OSS/BSS applications allowing for building of help desk environments.


BSS level: Trouble Ticketing

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Core platform includes common OSS/BSS services (e.g. user management, security profiles, logging and tracing, security audit, user authentication, process management and others) and GUI management interface – the Administrative Console (veraxsystems.com/en/products/ossbss#ac).

Core platform: Services & Administrative console






KPI Dashboard (http://www.veraxsystems.com/en/products/kpidashboard) allows for defining, collection and visual presentation of CSP’s Key Performance Indicators (KPI).

KPI Dashboard is a tool for determining trends and forecasts that are essential for taking up both short- and long-term management decisions.

Core platform: KPI Dashboard


http://www.veraxsystems.com/en/products/kpidashboard







Verax OSS Suite has been designed with easy

integration in mind and is open and EAI-ready:

Externally-initiated integration options include:

Native – using RMI to communicate directly with OSS/BSS services.

SOAP-based – using SOAP gateway.

OSS/BSS-initiated integration options include: Batch Manager (BM) driven – batch manager can run the OSS JRuby scripts within the JVM at certain times.

Event driven – the scripts are invoked reactively to events in the system (e.g. NMS events, alarms, etc.).

Workflow controlled – for advanced scenarios.

EAI-readiness


Server-side operating systems: IBM AIX, Sun

Solaris, Linux, OS/i (OS/400), Windows.

J2EE Application Servers: IBM WebSphere, JBOSS,

Apache Tomcat, Sun, Oracle and others.

Database systems: Oracle, DB2, MySQL and

Microsoft SQL Server.

Front-end: Windows, Linux, Mac (all Flash-enabled

browsers).

Operating platforms


Summary

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Complete, integrated solution from network to billing aimed at

rapid service deployment.

SOA-ready: open for cost-effective integration with other

applications via Enterprise Service Bus through industry standard

RMI or web service interfaces.

Short time-to-market and deployment times through

productization to the maximum extent possible.

Low TCO: can be deployed and migrated between open source

and commercial OS and database platforms.

Low OPEX: clients can design their own business reports and write

business rules without external (e.g. SI’s) services.

Ease of use: first OSS and BSS applications on the market designed

from the ground up to be user-friendly and have high user

experience factor.


For more information, please visit

veraxsystems.com/en/products/ossbss



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