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Netcracker Unveils Industry's First Cloud-Based Online Charging System
Netcracker
Technology unveiled today its Cloud-Based
Online Charging System (OCS), a next-generation offering that has
been optimized to meet the requirements of the digital world. As the
industry's first always-active OCS platform, Netcracker's Cloud-Based
OCS addresses all of the key pain points associated with legacy,
hardware-based charging systems. Specifically, it enables:
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Always-on availability at a lower cost. Today's digital world
requires real-time operations and always-on capabilities. Previous
attempts at creating such capabilities through hardware-centric
platforms were expensive and unreliable. Netcracker's revolutionary
software-based approach to its Cloud OCS reduces hardware dependency,
keeps costs down and delivers unparalleled availability and real-time
functionality.
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Unparalleled cloud elasticity and scalability in order to keep up
with the demands of digitalization. The unpredictable nature of
customer preferences, usage and network traffic requires an OCS that
can scale on demand and operate across distributed infrastructure.
Netcracker's Cloud-Based OCS supports horizontal and vertical
scalability across all layers.
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Converged revenue management scenarios. Unlike legacy OCS that
focused on specific rating and charging schemes, Netcracker's
Cloud-Based OCS enables and supports converged revenue management
capabilities across all business lines, including pre-paid and
post-paid models for all types of services. It also centralizes
storage for all rating, charging, subscriber and policy information
onto a single product. This simplified data managemet and its
catalog-driven configurations also means that service providers can
lower integration costs and reduce the time it takes to bring new and
innovative digital services to market.
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Support for VoLTE, virtualized, 5G and IoT services. The
emergence of LTE (News - Alert) and 5G has forced service providers to rethink how
services are created and delivered. Netcracker's Cloud-Based OCS, with
its faster speeds and extremely low latency, creates the ideal
platform for service providers to monetize real-time interactive
multimedia offerings, such as augmented reality, virtual reality and
real-time online games.
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Deployment flexibility across any physical and virtual environment.
Netcracker's Cloud-Based OCS' architecture is designed to be deployed
and operated in any environment, including physical, any type of cloud
(private, public or hybrid) and virtualized infrastructure. This
minimizes the reliance on complex, custom-built hardware and lowers
total cost of ownership for service providers.
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Embedded analytics. Today's increasingly digitalized world
requires an OCS with intelligence and analytic capabilities to launch
targeted, personalized and timely offers to customers. Netcracker's
Cloud-Based OCS with closed-loop alignment with analytics and campaign
management enables service providers to deliver the right offer to the
right customer at the right time.
"Netcracker's Cloud-Based OCS underscores the right approach for service
providers that are looking to monetize cloud and virtualized services in
today's digital world," said Karl Whitelock, Global Director of
Operations, Orchestration, Data Analytics and Monetization (ODAM) at
Stratecast. "As a software-centric solution that relies on configurable
parameters and not complex customized code, Netcracker's scalable OCS
can help to address any level of transaction processing need, which is
essential for delivering future-proof operations in the journey to
becoming true digital services providers."
"Traditional revenue management platforms have not been able to keep
pace with the needs of communications service providers as they
transform into digital service providers," said Sanjay Mewada, Chief
Strategy Officer at Netcracker. "Netcracker has evolved its OCS to
address these precise needs. Our Cloud OCS, with its unparalleled
elasticity, always-on availability and embedded analytics, removes the
barriers to digitalization and allows our customers to rapidly monetize
digital offerings, such as VoLTE, 5G, virtualized and IoT services."
For more information on Netcracker's
Cloud-Based OCS, please contact Joanna Larivee at [email protected].
About Netcracker Technology
Netcracker Technology, a wholly owned subsidiary of NEC (News - Alert) Corporation, is
a forward-looking software company, offering mission-critical solutions
to service providers around the globe. Our comprehensive portfolio of
software solutions and professional services enables large-scale digital
transformations, unlocking the opportunities of the cloud,
virtualization and the changing mobile ecosystem. With an unbroken
service delivery track record of more than 20 years, our unique
combination of technology, people and expertise helps companies
transform their networks and enable better experiences for their
customers.
For more information, visit www.netcracker.com.
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