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GCS Dynamic Route Management
GCS Dynamic Rate Management
2009
Company Background
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Founded in 2006, GCS has established itself as a leader in the Design, Development, Deployment, and Management of Routing Technologies for Next Generation Communication Networks.
Entrenched in the Service Provider markets, GCS utilizes its extensive relationships. GCS has been profitable since inception.
A leading edge technology integrator and solutions provider broken into 4 synergistic units:
1. Routing Software Development
2. Professional Services
3. Operational Support
4. Hosted Services
Comprised of telephony & software experts, GCS offers the most innovative, reliable, and cost-effective routing solutions to the Global Service Provider Market providing the ability to rapidly integrate superior solutions across a wide range of communication needs.
GCS platforms have been designed, deployed, and managed by their team
of experts in carrier grade communication networks. Collectively, this
team has deployed over 1,500 carrier PoPs in over 200 countries.
KWK
Services
GCS Customers
The GCS SolutionEnabling Network Professionals to
access the communications tools
they need
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Provision Customers into System
A comprehensive, dynamic, customizable and
limitless next generation rate management
system designed for carriers
Carrier and Contact Management: Add/edit/activate-deactivate. Unlimited number of carriers and contacts.
For Carrier Management: Support for prefix, IP-address, trunkname rating set on both the origination & termination sides
For Contact Management: Setup contacts for addendum, invoice, report notifications
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How Does GCS Accomplish Least Cost & Best Quality Routing?
Auto upload carrier rate sheets
Create routes by IP address
Route by percentage, weighted, least cost, NPA-NXX, service level, & create targeted NPA-NXX zones, LERG, OCN, Lata, or to LNP, and International 18-digit routing simultaneously
Create audit trail for route changes as well as full manual override for automation
Provide real-time tracing and export of call signaling path
GCS Dynamic Route Manager
creates all its routing tables based
upon a Least Cost Routing Engine.
Load in all your supplier costs and
your customer prices and GCS
Dynamic Route Manager generates
“No Loss” least cost routing tables.
Optional: Integrate Route Manager directly to
your existing billing and pricing system.
A flexible, scalable, easy-to-use, and cost efficient next generation
LCR engine designed for carriers
Routing - Edit
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Routing – No-loss LCR
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Routing – Override – No-loss, Percent, Prio, LCR
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How Does GCS Accomplish Reporting?
All reports available in 15 minute, Hourly, Daily, Weekly, or Monthly. Reports are run and stored in system so that they do not need to be ran each time you want to look at data.
Reporting Analysis: Traffic, Margin, Cause Code, & 7-Day Comparison
Traffic, Margin, Cause Code: Display by Termination carriers, by Origination Carriers, by Destination. Filter by any field
7-Day Comparison: Display by Termination carriers, by Origination Carriers, by Destination. Filter by any field. Show hour over hour comparison of Mon-Mon, Tues-Tues etc
Sales Management: Pricing ToolAbility to create pricing rate decks for customers. Dynamically build A-Z rate deck
with x% margin over x real cost. Edit and save rate decks.
Customer/Supplier Web Interface: Fully partition-based system with
company/user level access. View rate, reports, and rate changes.
Hierarchy of reporting starts with a dashboard of network and health.
Dashboard
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How Does GCS Accomplish Reporting? Cont’d.
All reports available in 15 minute, Hourly, Daily, Weekly, or Monthly. Reports are run and stored in system so that they do not need to be ran each time you want to look at data.
Ad hoc reports-any statistics by carrier, country, destination, time of day
Prepackaged reports for ASR, ALOC, ACD, QOS
Real-time and historical views
Automated invoicing for comparison and reconciliation
Hierarchy of reporting starts with a dashboard of network and health.
Traffic By Day – Destination – ASR/Sort
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Traffic By Day – Destination – Attempts/Sort
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Traffic By Day – Destination – Margin/Sort
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Traffic By Day – Destination - Sort
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Rate Management Reporting Specifics CDR Collection
Support for CDR collection directly from network elements.
All raw CDRs are stored for a configurable amount of time.
All CDRs post same day can be converted to summary CDRs by hour, month, day.
The CDR collection, mediation, reporting and alarming module will run on a separate
server from the routing module.
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Quality ReportsStandard reports necessary to display quality of routes by origination or termination and filter by
routes. ASR, ALOC, total attempts, failed attempts, completed attempts, total minutes. Sort by
all columns. Last 15 minutes, last hour, today cumulative, on demand by start date/start time &
end date/end time
1. Customer origination report by destination & Customer origination report by termination supplier
2. Supplier termination report by destination & Supplier termination report by origination customer
3. Origination customer & Termination supplier 7 day destination comparison report over “x” period of time. Compare stats Sunday over Sunday, Monday over Monday, etc.
4. Customer origination cause code report by destination & by termination supplier
5. Termination supplier cause code report by destination
Supplier – Answer Supervision – Issue
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Supplier – Philippines – ALOC/Sort
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NOC & Quality Reporting
Prepackaged & ad hoc reporting on route performance
Prepackaged & ad hoc reporting on vendor performance
Alarming reports by ASR, country, destination, carrier (in development currently, schedule release late Q2 ’09-on target)
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Audit
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Scalability
Basic Functions:
Web-Server
Database/Routing Engine
302 Redirect
Clustered infinitely scalable architecture, currently processing equivalent of 1,000 cps or 150,000 concurrent calls or 200 DS3s
Contains mediation server for CDRsAdditional external storage devices such as SAN can be supported
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Route Quality Specifics
Route Quality Alarms
Configure ASR and/or ALOC alarms by originator/route and/or terminator/route
Set minimum number of calls over a period of time for validation of alarm
Configure email address for alarms to be emailed to
Alarm matrix grid with 1 minute refresh to actively monitor the alarms
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Route Quality Monitoring
Alarm matrix grid with 1 minute refresh to actively monitor the alarms
Green/Yellow/Red alerting
Click on alert to view detailed statistics
QOS Routing: Margin/ASR/ALOC Intelligence
Dynamic priority changes based upon actual ALOC/ASR as compared to expected
ALOC/ASR per supplier - supplier/route
Architecture
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Typical Call Flow - Ingress
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Architecture
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GCS Dynamic Route Manager Feature List
Features Description
Basic Functionality
Routing Features
NGN routing engine which acts as middle-ware between carrier billing systems and VoIP session controllers such as session border controllers and soft-switches. Bridging inter-departmental management and operations of carrier routing
Feature rich routing solution built around a "No Loss Least Cost Routing Engine" with support for; time of day routing, no-loss LCR over-ride, preference-based override and % routing, static quality of service routing, service level based routing and digit validation
Support for unlimited source based routing tables and unlimited code breakouts. System dynamically builds source based LCR tables utilizing source based prefixes as the identifier. Support for best match routing by DNIS any length of destination number
Full support for domestic routing based upon ANI. Intra/Inter-State/Lata based routing and/or OCN based routing.
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GCS Dynamic Route Manager Feature List
Features Description
Web GUI
Inter-operability
Simple to use web-based interface for searching, viewing and modifying all aspects of carrier routing. View current least cost routing tables and historical least cost routing tables.
User-level access/permissions by screens and functional
Partitioned level access for hosted switch services
Works with any VoIP device which supports SIP 302 Re-Direct messages and acts upon multiple R-RURI's within the contact header.
Preserves all inter-connection functionality within the SBC/SS, such as signaling inter-operability, transcoding, media-direct/bypass, topology hiding, source authentication, registrations, etc.
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GCS Dynamic Route Manager Feature List
Features Description
Standards
Scalability
As Tested
Servers: Standard Intel based
OS: Centos 5 base build
MySQL, Apache, PHP, Sip stack
Server: (2) Dual Core Xeon 3.6Ghtz, 8GB RAM
Tested: 100 Calls per second, 100 customers, 5 tables per customer with 1 million routes each, 10 Endpoints per route (50 million routes per customer)
25% CPU utilization, average load of 0.5
Basic functions
Web-Server
Database/Routing Engine
302 Redirect
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GCS Dynamic Rate Manager Feature List
Features Description
Basic Functionality
Carrier and Contact
Management Features
Rating Methods
System stores all active, past and future rates permanently in the system.
System stores all rates at the code level and attaches codes to a buy mask or sell mask and a generic mask.
System allows for simple viewing and editing via masks or codes.
Individual buy/sell code masks per carrier are allowed.
Support for prefix, ip-address, trunkname rating set on both the orig. side and term side.
Unlimited number of endpoints, prefixes and trunks per carrier.
Add/edit/activate-deactivate unlimited number of carriers. Support for prefix, ip-address, trunkname rating set on both the orig. side and term side .
Add/edit/activate-deactivate unlimited number of contacts. Setup contacts for addendum, invoice, report notifications.
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GCS Dynamic Rate Manager Feature List
Features Description
Automation of Rate
Addendums
Automation of Invoicing
Customer/Supplier Web
Interface
Send rate addendums directly from the system to rate notification contacts.
System displays all the changes since the last addendum was sent out.
Choose carriers to notify, choose effective date, choose changes or A-Z.
System will create csv file and attach to addendum email and send to contacts.
Fully partition-based system with company/user level access
View only routes/rates associated with your company
View Reports associated with your company
Add, edit, delete routes with effective dates on routes/rates associated with your company
Send invoices directly to invoice contact notifications.
Choose carriers to invoice, choose invoice period, choose whether to send CDRs.
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GCS Dynamic Rate Manager Feature List
Features Description
Web GUI Rate Upload
CDR Management and
Processing
Reporting & Sales
Management
Simple GUI upload for termination supplier routes/costs and origination customer routes/prices.
Template based system which accepts both csv files and xls files.
Once a template is created and saved that format can be used over again without any configuration necessary.
All reports available in 15 minute, Hourly, Daily, Weekly, or Monthly.
Traffic, Margin, Cause Code: Display by Termination carriers, by Origination Carriers, by Destination. Filter by any field.
7-Day Comparison: Show hour over hour comparison of Mon-Mon, Tues-Tues etc.
Ability to create pricing rate decks for customers. Dynamically build A-Z rate deck with x% margin over x real cost. Edit and save rate decks.
Download/Import, Searching and Filtering of CDRs
Ability to collect CDRs directly from network elements.
Ability to merge 2 call leg CDRs and push CDRs in any format
Preserves all inter-connection functionality within the SBC/SS, such as signaling inter-operability, transcoding, media-direct/bypass, topology hiding, source authentication, registrations, etc.
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Pricing Information
*Custom Design can be done through GCS Professional Services at our base rate of $150.00 per hour.
Licensed, Hosted, Leasing Option
GCS Route Manager*
GCS Dynamic Bundle (Route + Rate)*
Price based on cps/ports
Thank You
Global Convergence Solutions can assist you in crafting your vision and executing that vision to expand your service portfolio and improve customer satisfaction while lowering your cost structure.
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