November 2015

PortaOne Solutions: Integrated B/OSS & Softswitch

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PortaOne: Basic Facts

● Founded in 1997 as a project team within Telenor ● Incorporated in 2000 in

Vancouver, Canada ● Privately owned

● Employees: 250+ ○ over 50% in technical support ○ 1/3 in software design and

development, QA and testing

● Product focus: ○ integrated converged B/OSS ○ C4/C5 softswitch solutions

● Global customer focus: ○ national carriers and

telcos of tier 2/3 ○ MVNO/MVNE ○ VoIP, ISPs, WiFi, WiMAX, LTE

service providers

PortaOne

Global Customer Success – I

Over the last 18 years in business, PortaOne have issued around 1,500 licenses and actively serves well over 400 installations in 85 countries on five continents

● 1/3 of our customers are in Europe (over a dozen in both UK and Netherlands)

● 1/3 - in North America (both Canada and the US – 25% of all customers)

● 1/4 - in Asia-Pacific (including Australia, Singapore, Indonesia Malaysia, Taiwan, etc.)

● the rest are in Africa (10+ different countries, including ~20 in South Africa), Middle East, and Latin America

Global Customer Success – II

What’s so unique about PortaOne?

Open FlexibilityPortaOne platform easily fits into an existing network, business process, and integration with applications.

This is done through:● open architecture● APIs, and ● source code

Fast Time-to-Market for New FeaturesSteady platform improvement and extremely short feature wait-time.

With over 250 engineers on staff, we utilize agile development cycle and deliver maintenance release every two months.

What’s so unique about PortaOne?

Lifelong License withNo Artificial LimitationsUnlimited license in terms of subscribers or calls or features or modules. Customers receive all available functionality and all new features are provided to supported customers as a part of regular system updates without extra fees.

Robust and Professionally SupportedCarrier-grade high-availability with all business critical components put in a cluster of physical servers complemented by the best in industry 24/7/365 technical support and maintenance program.

PortaBilling Oracularius

Carrier-grade B/OSS deployed by both national and tier 2 carriers, for example:

● Harris CapRock in TX, USA ● Ironton in PA, USA ● Apollophone in NY, USA ● Goldline in ON, Canada ● Bezeq in Israel ● MTT in Russia ● Datora & VoxBras in Brazil ● LTEx in France & UK ● Telecom Malaysia (PacketOne) in Malaysia ● Swift Telecom in Nigeria ● iBurst & Vox Telecom in South Africa

Redundant, scalable, converged billing, invoicing, rating, customer management platform designed for high availability of services

PortaSwitch – I

All-in-one platform (B/OSS, Softswitch, and SBC) for carriers and service providers

PortaSwitch – II

Various business models and scenarios can be run on a single platform:● Hosted IP PBX for enterprise customers ● IP Centrex for business communication ● SIP trunking for SMB & call centers ● Mobile apps and dialers for smartphones● Hosted platform for SaaS customers ● MVNO & MVNE ● Data over LTE & VoLTE ● VoIP wholesale termination and LCR ● Calling cards: PIN-less and printed ● Residential prepaid and postpaid ● IPTV: full triple play with VoD & pay-per-view ● ISP: broadband, WiMAX, and WiFi ● SMS services billing & routing ● DID management & on-demand provisioning

PortaSwitch Procinctus

A fully redundant configuration of PortaSwitch designed for high availability and maximal performance:

● DB redundancy: main and replica databases on dedicated servers

● Every business critical component forms a cluster for high availability

● Instant failover in case of hardware failure or malfunction

● Total of eleven servers within a single installation● Optional expansion to geographic redundancy with a

secondary site● Able to support up to 15,000 cc (concurrent calls)● Expected customer base of over 150,000 end users

Why Geographic Redundancy for PortaSwitch?

PortaSwitch Site Redundancy Option

Site redundancy allows to:● protect against hosting facility outages● provide service to multiple geographic regions when network connectivity between them is lost● perform upgrades to new software versions with zero downtime

PortaSwitch: Important Features – I

PortaSwitch: Important Features – II

Selected Examples of C5 Functionality

● Attended call transfer● Anonymous call reject● Automatic Line/Direct Connect● Auto Attendant / Auto Attendant with

Night-mode / Time-based BLF● Blind Call transfer● Call forward on busy / on not answer

/ to multiple simultaneous extensions / to SIP

● URI● Call Queues● Call Parking / Call pickup● Call Barring● Call Directory● Call return (last dialled number)● Call waiting● Caller ID● Caller ID on call waiting● Call Recording by default and on

demand

● Call hold● Conference Rooms● Customer Dialling● Rules / Translation● Rules CLIP/CLIR (Calling line

identity & presentation / restriction)

● CNIP/CNIR (Calling name identity & presentation / restriction)

● Caller Identity & Privacy protection

● Fax-to-Email● First login greeting● Favourite numbers● Group pickup● Hunt Groups● Legal Intercept● Message waiting audible● Message waiting visual

● Multiple call appearances● Music on hold● Paging/Intercom dialling● Presence ● Selective call acceptance / forward / reject● SIP● TAPI● Secure Calling (SRTP)● Speed dial● Station message detail recording (SMDR)● Speech/Voice to Text (via plugin)● Three-way conference / Three-way calling● Toll restriction● Virtual extensions● VoiceVPN● VoiceVPN distinctive ring● Voice On-net● Voicemail / Voicemail-to-Email

● And much more!

PortaSwitch for MVNO/MVNE & LTE/VoLTE

PortaSwitch is deployed by multiple customers in Europe, Africa, US, and Latin America

MVNO & LTE network billing and provisioning core for:

● Account management

● Call data retrieval● CDR processing

PortaSwitch Licensing Policy

Unlimited perpetual license● Does not depend on number of calls, ports, users, etc.● All modules and features included by default● Covers a private cloud installation of physical servers● Lifelong: has no time limit

Includes● Oracle Linux OS● MySQL or Oracle RAC DB● Source code● Post-installation services● Customized onsite training● Complimentary PortaCare subscription

PortaCare – maintenance and support subscription program● 24/7 technical support● 24/7 remote system monitoring● All maintenance releases with

new features and updates

Agile Development Cycle

Structure● Maintenance Releases● Builds

Types of Releases● Leap Forward● Long Life

Functionality Selection● Feature requests● Assessment● Commitment

Agile Development Cycle● 2 weeks coding● 1 week verification and QA● 1 week stability testing● 1 week release production