USSD helps operators to provide easy to use, responsive, and fast menu-driven content provision services. This is facilitated by the USSD gateway, which is a platform that enables operators to introduce messaging services with USSD as the bearer, enabling faster response times.
USSD stimulates VAS usage on the network and offers value to end users, operators, and application developers. Offering an easy to use, interactive alternative to IVR channels, USSD allows operators to quickly deploy applications across self-care, e-recharge, provisioning, infotainment, roaming, push-based services, and utilities. FLARES and ACE, two key components of USSD, enable rapid development and deployment of operator-generated applications without third-party intervention, reduce menu creation and testing from days to hours, and drastically reduce time to market.
MCiti’s USSD Gateway is a high-speed intermediary platform that allows operators to deliver engaging, interactive content to subscribers, and maintain real-time interaction without consuming large amounts of bandwidth.
USSD App Bazaar allows operators to monetize their VAS offerings and stimulate service uptake on the network. Offering a comprehensive suite of applications across self-care, recharge, provisioning, roaming, infotainment, push-based services, and utilities, operators can present their subscribers with a wide variety of innovative, high-quality, market-ready applications.
USSD FLARES (Framework for Launching Applications enabling Rapid Evolution of Services) is a Service Creation Environment that provides a single platform for the management of all internal and external applications providing services to the end user. It allows new services to be created and launched very quickly, and provides operators and content partners alike with a single, easy-to-use interface for service creation and management.
MCiti’s Application Creation Environment (ACE) platform enables operators to generate their own apps with minimal time to market. Offering a simple, easy-to-use GUI, operators can quickly develop and modify business logic, tap short lifetime opportunities, and maximize ROI.
The RestcommONE SMSC Gateway enables service providers and enterprises to deliver SMS, group SMS, SMS shortcodes and broadcast SMS features to their subscribers. In addition, it also enables value-added services through easy integration with over the top (OTT) communications services like WhatsApp, WeChat and Viber and social networking services like Facebook and Twitter.
The SMSC Gateway includes and is built on RestcommONE Telecom Core, a modern extensible middleware platform. It provides easy integration with any third party communication protocol or system using industry-standard telecom interfaces including SS7 MAP, TCAP, INAP, ISUP, or SMPP. SMSC Gateway also supports SIP connectivity.
The SMSC Gateway also supports advanced SCCP routing rules to map shortcodes to MSISDNs. This is a very popular feature for e-commerce, health and banking services.
The SMSC Gateway utilizes the very the fast and scalable Cassandra database for storing and handling messages. Cassandra stores unsent messages, messages successfully sent and messages that failed to be sent. The SMSC Gateway is built on a modern and extensible JSLEE platform base with SMPP protocol for connectivity to ESMEs (Emergency Service Messaging). A single SMSC node can process up to 1,000 SMS/sec. Multiple nodes can be clustered and deployed very quickly for redundancy and scaling purposes.
The RestcommONE SMSC Gateway can be deployed on dedicated hardware, private cloud infrastructure or public cloud service such as AWS or Google Cloud. To enable legacy E1/T1 links, Intel and Dialogic boards are supported. The SMSC also supports legacy SS7 connections to an MSC/ HLR via SIGTRAN links over M3UA.
The RestcommONE SMSC Gateway provides a scriptable Command Line Interface (CLI) tool allowing you to completely configure the Gateway at run-time and manage it using simple commands. In addition, a Graphical User Interface (GUI) tool is provided to allow you to configure, monitor and manage the Gateway through a convenient user-friendly interface.
Multi tenant SMSC gateway enables operators to provide SMS, group SMS, and broadcast SMS services localized for multiple brands or domains from a single deployment.
Carrier-grade scalability and reliability with load balancing and clustering support for automated failover delivers an excellent user experience for mobile subscribers. Unlike other more limited solutions, all RestcommONE services are load-balanced, providing unparalleled redundancy, especially as the platform scales.
Multilingual support for both UCS2 and GSM 7-bit format enables world-wide support SMS-based services in Latin (e.g, English, Spanish, French) and non-Latin (e.g., Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabic) languages.
SS7 hardware is fully support for Intel or Dialogic cards. Legacy TDM and SS7 support provides industry-standard network integration into IMS and LTE networks through SS7 MAP, TCAP, INAP, ISUP, or SMPP interfaces.
Internet protocol support for SIP.
Legacy TDM and SS7 support provides industry-standard network integration into IMS and LTE networks through SS7 MAP, TCAP, INAP, ISUP, or SMPP interfaces.
On premise and cloud deployment options provide outstanding flexibility for service provider and enterprise applications. Fully self- contained and highly optimized, the SMSC gateway supports both network functions virtualization (NFV) and clustered virtual machine (VM) deployments.
Flexible Operations and Monitoring support using industry standard protocols including Java JMX and scriptable command line interfaces with full CDR, logging and auditing reporting capabilities.
Open Source software origins means the code is well documented and tested, allowing your staff the opportunity to learn, optimize and customize the SMSC gateway to your evolving requirements – free from vendor lock-in. Our license subscription model provides indemnification and full support, along with your ability to provide input to our product development roadmap.
The RestcommONE GMLC (mobile location center) gateway enables Location Based Services (LBS) to identify the location of a person or object like the nearest ATM, gas station, Starbucks – or the location of a friend or employee. It also includes a powerful geolocation application programing interface (API) to enable LBS services in web and mobile apps.
LBS can also enhance mobile commerce apps as well. Imagine receiving coupons or advertised specials when walking by a store or receiving up-to-date weather based on where you are actually located at the time. Mobile games like Pokemon Go demonstrate the value of LBS. They are a great example of telecommunication convergence.
The RestcommONE GLMC utilizes the same triangulation process that is used by mobile devices on a radio access network (RAN). A similar capability is available for location data in an indoor wireless network using multiple WiFi access point (AP) triangulation based on signal strength and association. This means your web and mobile apps will work the same both outdoors and indoors through a single API. It will greatly simplify work for your developers to use location data and speed time to market for your applications and services.
The RestcommONE GMLC receives requests from external applications for the location of a mobile device based on its Mobile Station International Subscriber Directory Number (MSISDN). It returns the device’s location over industry standard protocols and transports including Mobile Location Protocol (MLP), HTTP or SMPP. The RestcommONE GLMC supports both SS7 (through RestcommOne JSS7) and IP based networks including 2G and 3G networks and 4G LTE deployments. IP based network support is accomplished by using well documented and extensible RestcommOne Diameter interfaces as required by the 3GPP standards.
The RestcommONE GLMC opens up new revenue streams for web and mobile developers as well as enterprises and service providers.
GMLC CORE LOCATION functionality includes Cell-ID of MSISDN as well as current status (busy, available, etc.)
SS7 SUPPORT for 2G and 3G based deployments.
DIAMETER SUPPORT for LTE based deployments.
TDM AND SIGTRAN SUPPORT supports legacy E1/T1 links via Dialogic SS7 cards as well as connectivity to MSC/HLR via SIGTRAN links (M3UA).
GEOLOCATION API to easily enable location based services (LBS) in web, IOS and Android apps.
CARRIER GRADE PERFORMANCE capable of processing billions of transactions each day. A single GMLC node can process up to 2,500 requests/sec. And can be adapted to meet the needs of all telecom service providers to greatly reduce CAPEX and OPEX costs – no matter size or location.
LOAD BALANCING & TRANSPARENT FAILOVER for multiple GMLC nodes can be arranged in a cluster across one or more geographically distributed data centers to scale up throughput and provide various levels of redundancy, high availability and fault tolerance.
There is no cap on request/sec or SS7 GT, links or association. Capacity depends on underlying hardware and network used.
CLOUD READY means GMLC may be deployed on dedicated hardware, private cloud infrastructure or public cloud services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS).
EXTENSIBLE AND MODERN PLATFORM built on the RestcommONE JSLEE platform, which automatically provides out-of-the-box integration with various communication protocols for connectivity to ESMEs (External Short Messaging Entity). Protocols include SIP, Diameter, HTTP in addition to the base SMPP protocol.
ENTERPRISE MONITORING & MANAGEMENT is included. RestcommONE jSS7 comes with an efficient Command Line Interface (CLI) tool and AJAX based Web Management Interface allowing you to easily configure, manage and monitor the GMLC. It can easily integrate with a third party campaign tool to define new campaigns and manage existing ones. Call Detail Records (CDR) are generated and stored in a text file.
The RestcommONE jDiameter is a Java-based implementation of the Diameter standard for Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) as defined by RFC 3588. The base protocol as well as the most important and widely used applications are provided. These are Credit-Control Application, Ro (Online Charging), Rf (Offline Charging), Sh, Gx, Cx/Dx, Gq, and S6a.
RestcommONE jDiameter includes integration interfaces for RestcommONE SIP Servlets and RestcommONE JAIN– SLEE Resource Adaptors. And features an extensible architecture that allows additional Diameter applications or modules to be connected.
The RestcommONE jDiameter stack offers all the capabilities of the RADIUS protocol and is compatible with existing RADIUS servers. It features several advanced features such as high availability and fault-tolerance support at stack level and for the RestcommONE JAIN– SLEE and RestcommONE SIP Servlets. The stack also provides statistics gathering for monitoring the stack health, an overload monitor to avoid congestion, several management and monitoring options.
The RestcommONE jDiameter stack can be deployed as a standalone Diameter server connecting to 3rd Party applications and servers, as well as part of a complete RestcommONE solution utilizing RestcommONE Core and RestcommOne Connect services.
RestcommONE jSS7 is the only Open Source Java based implementation of the SS7 protocol stack. It includes modules for supporting the most used and important parts of a SS7 network. These include MTP2, MTP3, ISUP, SCCP, TCAP, and CAMEL (Phase I, Phase II, Phase III and Phase IV).
RestcommONE jSS7 also supports MAP protocols for board-level SS7 adapters. In addition, RestcommONE jSS7 supports for SIGTRAN (M3UA) over IP. It strictly adheres to the standards and specifications defined by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and American National Standards Institute (ANSI).
RestcommONE jSS7 provides developers with a flexible API that hides the lower layer details (legacy SS7 links or SIGTRAN) and therefore makes it simple and easy to develop SS7 applications. This makes it much easier to migrate your applications from analog or digital TDM (Time Division Multiplexing) hardware to internet protocol (IP) based solutions for M3UA. For IP based M3UA deployments, RestcommONE jSS7 can be installed on any operating system (OS) that includes a SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) library. These include Linux and Windows Server.
For legacy based TDM or digital deployments, RestcommONE jSS7 supports TDM hardware offered by Dialogic. Native libraries for the supported hardware adapters are available for Linux1 and Windows Server.
RestcommONE jSS7 can work as a standalone library. However, to simplify deployment and integration with other RestcommONE components it is usually deployed as complete solution along with management interfaces and logging tools. These include several JSLEE Resource Adapters, the Command Line Interface (Shell Management tool) and the GUI Management Console for run-time configuration. To use these value-added tools, a JBoss Application Server must be installed and running.
RestcommONE jSS7 comes with JSLEE TCAP, MAP, CAP and ISUP Resource Adaptors (RA). These enable developers to build SS7 applications with ease. Developers only require an understanding of Resource Adaptors, allowing them to focus on building applications quickly and efficiently instead of learning SS7 protocols and standards.
Scalability and resiliency is built into the RestcommONE jSS7 solution. The jSS7 stack supports both active and standby failover. These can be in servers that are either local or geographically distributed. The solution also supports auto-scaling and automated reporting for events and alarms, and health status for all nodes in a jSS7 cluster. RestcommONE jSS7 is part of a complete telecom core and forms the basis of a next generation, API driven and WebRTC-enabled service provider or enterprise solution.