Business Environment

Service Provider’s local service revenue has been affected with product bundling, wireless substitution and customer defections to low cost VoIP providers.  With top line growth slowing, senior executives demand solutions that reduce cost and improve quality of service.   Numerous companies have successfully implemented scalable OSS products that deliver increased profitability with 100% ROI in under six months.  

Routing Database

TRAM, using the industry standard LERG and Common Language Circuit Identifiers (CLCI), in addition to user specified business rules, can automatically determine correct network element route sets.  This allows trunk engineering organizations to disseminate their trunk and route choice patterns via an industry standard coding scheme.  When exceptions exist, inSwitch provides the ability to over-ride the automated calculations.

Trunk Automation

TRAM provides Network Operations an intelligent provisioning process that will accept work orders for trunk group creation or augmentation.  Based on data from trunk inventory or provisioning systems, TRAM’s translation engine will create the required translations for building new trunk groups, augmenting existing trunks and disconnecting trunks.  For new trunks, TRAM will create automated orders to re-home the existing traffic to use the new facilities.

Trunk Categories

TRAM automates the following types of trunks:

• Network
• PRI
• SIP

Benefit

By automating the manual and repetitive tasks of creating trunk and routing translations, carriers significantly reduce costs and improve accuracy.  Additionally, validating the actual network routing against their plan allows Service Providers to eliminate unnecessary capital expenditures.