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iVAS™ Platform

iVAS™ has been expressly designed to be ‘non-impactive’ to installed systems and is intended to augment, not replace, existing systems and processes.

With a service delivery focus (as opposed to billing, provisioning, activation, etc focus), the iVAS™ platform represents a small footprint inside Telco operations. The main business driver for the platform is the speed with which new services can be deployed (without incremental changes to any internal/legacy systems). The value of the Solution Framework comes from the pre-fit/pre-qualified services that can plug into the Telco iVAS™ installation.

Having built the initial version of this platform for a major North American Telco, and with key system architects in engagements with Tier 1 Telcos, Clochase has been able to gain customer intelligence necessary to refine our solution to provide value at all levels of the service delivery chain in the Telco (CSR Agents, Marketing, Product Management, IT). The business rules are very dynamic, and are table driven. The cost and time-to-market reductions associated with the deployment of VAS solutions with iVAS™ have enabled our clients to focus on service selection and less time on service deployment issues.

The iVAS™ solution has been designed to support a phased implementation. Sites can choose to implement a “minimum” system that provides base level system interconnectivity and rudimentary reporting services. This low-end platform allows for integrated billing, provisioning, authentication and usage tracking. At the other end of the spectrum, a complete iVAS™ Platform implementation features a Connected Services Framework (CSF) to clients built upon the Services-Oriented Architecture (SOA). This Framework allows for the creation and management of services across networks and devices! Utilizing a web services infrastructure, the iVAS™ Platform supports the introduction of new services into the existing Telco network systems and supports the connection by subscribers to these services from different networks and devices. As the connection technology and underlying devices evolve, the Connected Services Framework will evolve to support the emerging standards, and iVAS™ clients will inherently receive support for the devices and connection mechanisms.

At the heart of the flexible deployment architecture (MINIMUM versus FULL and all points in between) is the function-oriented design inherent in the SOA. In full compliance with eTOM and SID, the Connected Services Framework supports the delineation of Telco OSS/BSS processes (and the enabling of same via a web services interface) from network services/connectivity from internal delivery/support mechanisms. By defining and standardizing the interface points between each component and encapsulating this interface description within a web service, the iVAS™ Platform supports self-directed Telco deployment of the architecture. It supports the Telco deciding the extent to which they wish to interface to legacy components versus manage and interact with them.

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