GCS 2009 Overview

GCS Dynamic Route Management

GCS Dynamic Rate Management

2009

Company Background

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Founded in 2006, GCS has established itself as a leader in the Design, Development, Deployment, and Management of Routing Technologies for Next Generation Communication Networks.

Entrenched in the Service Provider markets, GCS utilizes its extensive relationships. GCS has been profitable since inception.

A leading edge technology integrator and solutions provider broken into 4 synergistic units:

1. Routing Software Development

2. Professional Services

3. Operational Support

4. Hosted Services

Comprised of telephony & software experts, GCS offers the most innovative, reliable, and cost-effective routing solutions to the Global Service Provider Market providing the ability to rapidly integrate superior solutions across a wide range of communication needs.

GCS platforms have been designed, deployed, and managed by their team

of experts in carrier grade communication networks. Collectively, this

team has deployed over 1,500 carrier PoPs in over 200 countries.

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Services

GCS Customers

The GCS SolutionEnabling Network Professionals to

access the communications tools

they need

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Provision Customers into System

A comprehensive, dynamic, customizable and

limitless next generation rate management

system designed for carriers

Carrier and Contact Management: Add/edit/activate-deactivate. Unlimited number of carriers and contacts.

For Carrier Management: Support for prefix, IP-address, trunkname rating set on both the origination & termination sides

For Contact Management: Setup contacts for addendum, invoice, report notifications

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How Does GCS Accomplish Least Cost & Best Quality Routing?

Auto upload carrier rate sheets

Create routes by IP address

Route by percentage, weighted, least cost, NPA-NXX, service level, & create targeted NPA-NXX zones, LERG, OCN, Lata, or to LNP, and International 18-digit routing simultaneously

Create audit trail for route changes as well as full manual override for automation

Provide real-time tracing and export of call signaling path

GCS Dynamic Route Manager

creates all its routing tables based

upon a Least Cost Routing Engine.

Load in all your supplier costs and

your customer prices and GCS

Dynamic Route Manager generates

“No Loss” least cost routing tables.

Optional: Integrate Route Manager directly to

your existing billing and pricing system.

A flexible, scalable, easy-to-use, and cost efficient next generation

LCR engine designed for carriers

Routing - Edit

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Routing – No-loss LCR

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Routing – Override – No-loss, Percent, Prio, LCR

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How Does GCS Accomplish Reporting?

All reports available in 15 minute, Hourly, Daily, Weekly, or Monthly. Reports are run and stored in system so that they do not need to be ran each time you want to look at data.

Reporting Analysis: Traffic, Margin, Cause Code, & 7-Day Comparison

Traffic, Margin, Cause Code: Display by Termination carriers, by Origination Carriers, by Destination. Filter by any field

7-Day Comparison: Display by Termination carriers, by Origination Carriers, by Destination. Filter by any field. Show hour over hour comparison of Mon-Mon, Tues-Tues etc

Sales Management: Pricing ToolAbility to create pricing rate decks for customers. Dynamically build A-Z rate deck

with x% margin over x real cost. Edit and save rate decks.

Customer/Supplier Web Interface: Fully partition-based system with

company/user level access. View rate, reports, and rate changes.

Hierarchy of reporting starts with a dashboard of network and health.

Dashboard

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How Does GCS Accomplish Reporting? Cont’d.

All reports available in 15 minute, Hourly, Daily, Weekly, or Monthly. Reports are run and stored in system so that they do not need to be ran each time you want to look at data.

Ad hoc reports-any statistics by carrier, country, destination, time of day

Prepackaged reports for ASR, ALOC, ACD, QOS

Real-time and historical views

Automated invoicing for comparison and reconciliation

Hierarchy of reporting starts with a dashboard of network and health.

Traffic By Day – Destination – ASR/Sort

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Traffic By Day – Destination – Attempts/Sort

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Traffic By Day – Destination – Margin/Sort

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Traffic By Day – Destination - Sort

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Rate Management Reporting Specifics CDR Collection

Support for CDR collection directly from network elements.

All raw CDRs are stored for a configurable amount of time.

All CDRs post same day can be converted to summary CDRs by hour, month, day.

The CDR collection, mediation, reporting and alarming module will run on a separate

server from the routing module.

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Quality ReportsStandard reports necessary to display quality of routes by origination or termination and filter by

routes. ASR, ALOC, total attempts, failed attempts, completed attempts, total minutes. Sort by

all columns. Last 15 minutes, last hour, today cumulative, on demand by start date/start time &

end date/end time

1. Customer origination report by destination & Customer origination report by termination supplier

2. Supplier termination report by destination & Supplier termination report by origination customer

3. Origination customer & Termination supplier 7 day destination comparison report over “x” period of time. Compare stats Sunday over Sunday, Monday over Monday, etc.

4. Customer origination cause code report by destination & by termination supplier

5. Termination supplier cause code report by destination

Supplier – Answer Supervision – Issue

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Supplier – Philippines – ALOC/Sort

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NOC & Quality Reporting

Prepackaged & ad hoc reporting on route performance

Prepackaged & ad hoc reporting on vendor performance

Alarming reports by ASR, country, destination, carrier (in development currently, schedule release late Q2 ’09-on target)

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Audit

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Scalability

Basic Functions:

Web-Server

Database/Routing Engine

302 Redirect

Clustered infinitely scalable architecture, currently processing equivalent of 1,000 cps or 150,000 concurrent calls or 200 DS3s

Contains mediation server for CDRsAdditional external storage devices such as SAN can be supported

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Route Quality Specifics

Route Quality Alarms

Configure ASR and/or ALOC alarms by originator/route and/or terminator/route

Set minimum number of calls over a period of time for validation of alarm

Configure email address for alarms to be emailed to

Alarm matrix grid with 1 minute refresh to actively monitor the alarms

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Route Quality Monitoring

Alarm matrix grid with 1 minute refresh to actively monitor the alarms

Green/Yellow/Red alerting

Click on alert to view detailed statistics

QOS Routing: Margin/ASR/ALOC Intelligence

Dynamic priority changes based upon actual ALOC/ASR as compared to expected

ALOC/ASR per supplier - supplier/route

Architecture

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Typical Call Flow - Ingress

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Architecture

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GCS Dynamic Route Manager Feature List

Features Description

Basic Functionality

Routing Features

NGN routing engine which acts as middle-ware between carrier billing systems and VoIP session controllers such as session border controllers and soft-switches. Bridging inter-departmental management and operations of carrier routing

Feature rich routing solution built around a "No Loss Least Cost Routing Engine" with support for; time of day routing, no-loss LCR over-ride, preference-based override and % routing, static quality of service routing, service level based routing and digit validation

Support for unlimited source based routing tables and unlimited code breakouts. System dynamically builds source based LCR tables utilizing source based prefixes as the identifier. Support for best match routing by DNIS any length of destination number

Full support for domestic routing based upon ANI. Intra/Inter-State/Lata based routing and/or OCN based routing.

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Web GUI

Inter-operability

Simple to use web-based interface for searching, viewing and modifying all aspects of carrier routing. View current least cost routing tables and historical least cost routing tables.

User-level access/permissions by screens and functional

Partitioned level access for hosted switch services

Works with any VoIP device which supports SIP 302 Re-Direct messages and acts upon multiple R-RURI's within the contact header.

Preserves all inter-connection functionality within the SBC/SS, such as signaling inter-operability, transcoding, media-direct/bypass, topology hiding, source authentication, registrations, etc.

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Standards

Scalability

As Tested

Servers: Standard Intel based

OS: Centos 5 base build

MySQL, Apache, PHP, Sip stack

Server: (2) Dual Core Xeon 3.6Ghtz, 8GB RAM

Tested: 100 Calls per second, 100 customers, 5 tables per customer with 1 million routes each, 10 Endpoints per route (50 million routes per customer)

25% CPU utilization, average load of 0.5

Basic functions

Web-Server

Database/Routing Engine

302 Redirect

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GCS Dynamic Rate Manager Feature List


Basic Functionality

Carrier and Contact

Management Features

Rating Methods

System stores all active, past and future rates permanently in the system.

System stores all rates at the code level and attaches codes to a buy mask or sell mask and a generic mask.

System allows for simple viewing and editing via masks or codes.

Individual buy/sell code masks per carrier are allowed.

Support for prefix, ip-address, trunkname rating set on both the orig. side and term side.

Unlimited number of endpoints, prefixes and trunks per carrier.

Add/edit/activate-deactivate unlimited number of carriers. Support for prefix, ip-address, trunkname rating set on both the orig. side and term side .

Add/edit/activate-deactivate unlimited number of contacts. Setup contacts for addendum, invoice, report notifications.

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Automation of Rate

Addendums

Automation of Invoicing

Customer/Supplier Web

Interface

Send rate addendums directly from the system to rate notification contacts.

System displays all the changes since the last addendum was sent out.

Choose carriers to notify, choose effective date, choose changes or A-Z.

System will create csv file and attach to addendum email and send to contacts.

Fully partition-based system with company/user level access

View only routes/rates associated with your company

View Reports associated with your company

Add, edit, delete routes with effective dates on routes/rates associated with your company

Send invoices directly to invoice contact notifications.

Choose carriers to invoice, choose invoice period, choose whether to send CDRs.

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Web GUI Rate Upload

CDR Management and

Processing

Reporting & Sales

Management

Simple GUI upload for termination supplier routes/costs and origination customer routes/prices.

Template based system which accepts both csv files and xls files.

Once a template is created and saved that format can be used over again without any configuration necessary.

All reports available in 15 minute, Hourly, Daily, Weekly, or Monthly.

Traffic, Margin, Cause Code: Display by Termination carriers, by Origination Carriers, by Destination. Filter by any field.

7-Day Comparison: Show hour over hour comparison of Mon-Mon, Tues-Tues etc.

Ability to create pricing rate decks for customers. Dynamically build A-Z rate deck with x% margin over x real cost. Edit and save rate decks.

Download/Import, Searching and Filtering of CDRs

Ability to collect CDRs directly from network elements.

Ability to merge 2 call leg CDRs and push CDRs in any format

Preserves all inter-connection functionality within the SBC/SS, such as signaling inter-operability, transcoding, media-direct/bypass, topology hiding, source authentication, registrations, etc.

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Pricing Information

*Custom Design can be done through GCS Professional Services at our base rate of $150.00 per hour.

Licensed, Hosted, Leasing Option

GCS Route Manager*

GCS Dynamic Bundle (Route + Rate)*

Price based on cps/ports

Thank You

Global Convergence Solutions can assist you in crafting your vision and executing that vision to expand your service portfolio and improve customer satisfaction while lowering your cost structure.

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