Business Environment
Service Provider’s local service revenue has been affected with product bundling, wireless substitution
and customer defections due to UNEP rulings. 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.
The inSwitch™ Trunk & Routing Automated Maintenance (TRAM) module provides Network executives a solution
for automating trunk and routing translations. Supporting both TDM and VoIP switch technologies, TRAM
automates repetitive and labor intensive tasks performed by highly skilled technicians.
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, they are managed by defining overflow patterns
at a switch to switch level.
Routing Validation
TRAM utilizes the inSwitch theValidator® module to extract trunk and routing data from the network element
or operational support system. TRAM then compares the contents of its Trunk and Routing database with
content from the network element to determine discrepancies. Identifying these discrepancies allows
the routing translations organizations to ensure that the network elements are translated in accordance
with the trunk engineer’s design.
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.
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.
Summary
Honovi’s inSwitch TRAM module significantly reduces the time, increases the accuracy, standardizes the
translations and radically reduces the cost of maintaining network routing and trunk translations.
The result is a verifiable increase in the effectiveness of organizations responsible for maintaining
routing and trunk translations.
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