Service Aggregation Platform (SSAP)

Benefits

• To reduce cost of integration;

• To increase providers' loyalty thanks to convenient interface and integration with pre-paid systems;

• To increase the quality of services due to real-time provisioning of SLA's;

• To increase subscribers' loyalty due to improvement of services quality;

• To optimize management of subscribers' debts;

• To implement mixed mobile value added services based on USSD, WAP and MMS;

• To optimize load balancing of operator's infrastructure;

• To implement affiliate programs for mobile Value Added Services.

System requirements:

• Sun Fire Server based on the UltraSPARC processor and Solaris OS or Intel Pentium-based platform and Linux OS
• SQL server

Included software components:

• Content Aggregation Gateway
• SMS/USSD Applications Platform
• WAP/USSD Gateway

Content Aggregation Gateway

SCAG allows you to connect a range of services to several SMS/USSD centers and billing systems. It lets an administrator to set the route of messages between the service and the operator's network, the rules of access and tarrying. SCAG is intended for cellular operators and large content providers.

Features:

• An opportunity to deploy the additional SMS/USSD services with the minimal efforts ;

• Simple and functional way to control of services;

• Flexible billing rules based on various conditions, e.g. message content, sequences of messages, etc;

• Versatile rules for access to operator's network;

• Statistic reports for operator;

• Statistic reports for service provider;

• Clear integration with several SMS/USSD centers and billing systems;

• Parlay support for pre-paid subscribers;

• Over 500 transactions per second.

SMS/USSD Applications Platform

SMS/USSD Applications Platform allows you to connect some SMS/USSD services as well as develop and deploy them. This platform consists of two independent products: SMS/USSD Applications Gateway and USSD-HTTP gateway

Features:

• Allows content provider to develop new kind of services;

• To set conformity between the services and the SMS/USSD numbers;

• To attach some external services using HTTP. There is an additional opportunity to connect services of different manufacturers within the framework of one service (SME) number;

• To make USSD service accessible through SMS automatically;

• To attach the WAP content automatically without any changes on the WAP site;

• To look through statistics of some service usage;

• To set the safety policy.

SMS/USSD Applications Gateway is the program, allowing providers to develop and execute applications for SMS and USSD phases 2. To reduce cost of development this program uses standard technologies like XML for basic menu and transitions between menu items and Java for dynamic elements.

Basic functions are:

• USSD phases 1 (single-step scripts) and phases 2 (dialogue multistage scripts) support;

• XML description of menu structure and users interface scripts;

• Sending SMS using USSD scripts;

• UCS2 support;

• Integration with external systems, databases and applications using Java;

• The built-in subsystem for carrying out of questioning and voting;

• The built-in system for registration of subscribers;

• Gathering statistics of application usage;

• High efficiency and scalability (up to 5000 simultaneous user's sessions).

USSD-HTTP Gateway allows the operator to connect interactive services without specialized SME creation.

WAP/USSD Gateway

WAP/USSD Gateway is the program providing access to text WAP content from mobile phones using USSD phase 2 technologies. This product allows the operator to offer some WAP services to subscribers which phones don't support WAP.

WAP/USSD Gateway allows the subscriber to get access to WAP content using the SIM-browser placed on SIM card.