The Industry Best Known for Innovation Takes Progressive Steps Toward Automation, Changing the Way Carriers Compete

Every carrier, large or small, is plagued by similar yet vastly different issues, and they aren’t always centered on communications. iXTools, another product in Telarix’s suite, sets out to address the specific needs of carriers. For example, one might be concerned about routing while another may be struggling with billing — Telarix’s products can be customized to meet the needs of each. Whether a company processes one thousand minutes or one billion, Telarix can help improve its overall results.

iXTools currently processes over 150 billion voice, SMS, content, and data minutes each year, offering carriers an unprecedented level of visibility and control when it comes to interconnect traffic and helping them identify optimal routing strategies, among other things. As a result, users are able to streamline operations to achieve lower operating costs and higher productivity.

Utilizing iXTools, service providers can also improve their operational processes by introducing the business modules necessary to detect and resolve areas of revenue leakage or cost inefficiency. iXTools is able to provide insight and assistance with routing, billing and audit, settlement, and trading, delivering real-time business intelligence that allows decisions to be made and the bottom line to be immediately affected. Add in managed services and key personnel can begin to focus on creating revenue specific to the core business.

As the market leader in OSS/BSS and automation software, Telarix continues to innovate. It recently introduced a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model for iXTools, enabling carriers of all sizes to improve their earnings and operate more effectively, with little capital investment.

Telarix is also teaming up with other companies through its increasingly popular EcoSystem Partnership Program, including a recent collaboration with Cisco and NxtGn that resulted in AVYDA Powered by Telarix, a turnkey solution that empowers operators to better monetize their networks so they can deliver high-quality video calls. This new offering fits in well with Telarix’s current product suite, as Stephen Liu, senior manager of service-provider marketing for routing and switching at Cisco, explained in a blog post last December:

“1. No easy way to get paid: ‘Show me the money’ is critical for carriers, yet many of the existing Over-the-Top (OTT) solutions consume network resources while the most or all of the revenue flows to the OTT provider. By incorporating Telarix back office services (already in use by over 200 carriers across the world) the AVYDA solution helps network operators efficiently interconnect video calls while ensuring that proper CDRs (Call Detail Records) are created.

“2. High bandwidth and lack of scale: Many current video solutions use inefficient high bandwidth codecs which either [limit] the types of end-points that can be connected or require WiFi connections. The AVYDA team has shown that they can connect mobile devices over 3G yet maintain picture quality, and by using the Cisco ASR 1000 and [its] high-powered control plane have the capacity to deliver 16K concurrent HD video and voice calls while still processing 250 new calls per second.

“3. Lack of standards: At Cisco we talk about ‘Connecting the Unconnected,’ yet many of the existing OTT video solutions are closed or proprietary. AVYDA uses an open, standards-based solution in terms of the codecs being used and the type of endpoints supported. From high-end Cisco TelePresence platforms to computers, mobile phones, and tablets (both Android and iOS), all can be interconnected seamlessly. This expands the reach and flexibility of the service and makes it more valuable for carriers.

“4. Support for IPv6: Since the World IPv6 Launch back on June 6th we’ve seen a steady increase in customers using the latest Internet Protocol, recently breaking the 1% barrier. This will continue and become critical to carriers who wish to deliver services to mobile devices.”

Telarix continues to innovate and find new ways to meet the needs and challenges of carriers large and small.  As iXLink and iXTools continue to be used by more and more carriers, there are endless possibilities for utilizing the technology to assist carriers in making informed business decisions, opening the door for exponential growth.

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This advertorial has been sponsored by Telarix, the market leader in Interconnect Business Optimization solutions.  Telarix helps solve a new set of challenges for international service providers with its software, iXTools and iXLink.  iXLink enables carriers, resellers and emerging market providers to automate their wholesale interconnect purchase processes.  With over 3,000 members exchanging over 40,000 documents monthly in a secure and collaborative business environment, iXlink has proven to be the solution to have.  Offered in both a licensed and SaaS model Telarix’s software can be integrated to carriers of all sizes.