Packaging

Amdocs Helps Smooth the Road to 4G

Monday 16. February 2009 - Announcing new solutions for LTE and WiMAX network planning and rollout, real-time charging, applications retailing, and turnkey business-support systems for monetizing 4G implementations

At Mobile World Congress 2009, Amdocs (NYSE:DOX), the leading provider of customer experience systems, today announced new products and services to ensure a more predictable, profitable evolution toward 4G, whether via the Long-Term Evolution (LTE) or worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX) standards.

New Amdocs products, including packaged solutions for automating network deployments, high-speed real-time charging and a mobile applications storefront, part of the Amdocs CES Portfolio, bring immediate results, while easing the move to a 4G environment. Even if 4G is a longer-range plan, service providers must begin to prepare for it now, as the services and business models start to take shape over 2.5G and 3G networks. As a result, Amdocs is introducing new LTE/WiMAX-ready products and services:

— Amdocs Mobile Build Automation Pack: To be released to general
availability in March, this packaged solution automates standard
engineering processes for any mobile network, including rollout,
expansion and transmission upgrade, reducing deployment and ongoing
operational costs, offering specific support for LTE and WiMax. It
ensures that each of the thousands of backhaul transmission links is
proactively managed for optimal capacity utilization and cost. Because
it addresses service providers’ requirements for network rollout,
expansion and transmission upgrades out of the box and is extensible
to meet specific needs, the Amdocs Mobile Build Automation Pack
shortens providers’ time to deploy new network assets. It is the
newest addition to Amdocs’ comprehensive OSS offering, which include
network and capacity planning, service fulfillment, and service and
resource management products.
— Amdocs App Store: This new solution helps service providers to develop
and sell the dynamic array of digital applications possible in a 4G
world. Amdocs App Store enables service providers to attract and
enable collaboration among third-party application developers and
content providers, and to provide an online consumer retail experience
that rivals the most aggressive competitors in mobile application
stores. It is the newest innovation from Amdocs Interactive, which
offers digital commerce, partner collaboration, web self-service,
search and, with the recent acquisition of ChangingWorlds,
personalization and mobile portal solutions to enable service
providers to monetize the digital lifestyle and 4G network
investments.
— Amdocs CES – Charging 7.5T: Generally available today, Amdocs CES –
Charging 7.5T provides real-time, complex event-rating with
unparalleled price-performance. Built to accommodate the exponential
growth in data traffic 4G heralds, Charging 7.5T is based on
breakthrough new “Turbo Charging” technology and newly designed,
highly distributed architecture that allows for massive scalability at
significantly lower hardware and software costs. It also provides
real-time policy management capabilities, complying with 3GPP LTE
requirements, to allow service providers to implement prepaid and
real-time spending control limits. Amdocs Charging 7.5T is integrated
with Amdocs’ active mediation, which verifies customer policy
information–important for minimizing latency (or lag time) in the
context of 4G’s advanced usage scenarios such as mobile gaming–and
correctly analyzes complicated usage records, and provides accurate
and timely data to the billing system.
— Amdocs BSS Pack: This packaged solution provides the critical
business-support systems (BSS) that enable any service provider to
launch and monetize any network, up to and including 4G networks and
beyond, anywhere in the world. Its order-to-cash functionality
includes Amdocs Charging 7.5T, Self Service, Ordering and Contact
Center, plus pre-integrated best-practice business processes, such as
pre-defined rating schemes and collection paths for mobile services,
software-specific system-integration services, and support for
third-party hardware. Based on Amdocs’ implementation testing, it
estimates that with this pre-packaged solution, service providers can
reduce the cost of implementation by up to 60 percent.



“The transition to 4G will bring considerations that span the length of carriers’ infrastructure and systems, from cellsite backhaul to real-time events management to partner collaboration. Those who address these issues early will be able to deliver more services of higher quality at lower cost, giving them more flexibility in the more competitive times ahead,” says Larry Goldman, practice leader – Global Telecom Software, Analysys Mason. “Amdocs is a leader in OSS and BSS, and has distilled years of experience into its offerings. As carriers venture into 4G’s promising yet uncharted waters, a partner like Amdocs can bring much-needed insight and vision.”