Overview
Access and interconnection costs represent a dominant expense for carriers today, and very complex routing schemes are required to avoid overpaying. Where network routing is crafted manually, carriers may choose to forego substantial savings to keep routing manageable and avoid risk.
The SSI Universal Routing Solution (URS) automates the design, implementation, and ongoing validation of all routing tasks in your network. SSI URS reduces risk by having a centralized network-wide repository for routing data to assess the impact of routing changes on the whole network, not just on one particular switch. This makes more complex routing schemes possible and enables greater savings.
- Routing flexibility unlocks greater per-minute margins
Leveraging wholesale carrier costs drives a need for both more complex routing and for more frequent routing updates. Because SSI URS automates the network routing provisioning process all the way to the network element, it can update network routing as frequently as carrier pricing can be re-negotiated, and those updates can be placed in-effect the moment the new prices are enacted.
- Reduce operational costs by centralizing all your network configuration intelligence
The state of the network is constantly changing: trunk additions and deletions, LERG updates, carriers merging network assets; and new wholesale rate negotiations can cause substantial operational activity. Without a centralized view of the details, one change can easily invalidate the benefits of another. Cost–avoidance plans generated on an earlier topology can potentially cause more harm than good.
- Make Network Routing reflect all your operating objectives
Implementing Least Cost Routing can mean not only added routing complexity based on 6 or more digits as opposed to the more common "3 digit" approach, but also more frequent updates. SSI URS eliminates data processing and manipulation, by taking inputs in their native form, whether that’s a new LERG update, revised carrier cost spreadsheets, or updated network topology data, and implementing whatever level of routing complexity is required to satisfy all these changing inputs with one integrated routing scheme.
- Network Routing transcends traditional boundaries
As carrier networks evolve with hybrid circuit-switched and VoIP networks, routing automation needs to be able to manage multi-layer, multi-vendor, multi-technology networks. Network routing logic needs to recognize traditional jurisdictional boundaries for some routes, and to identify when those boundaries add unnecessary costs for other routes. SSI URS enables the all-distance carrier to manage all network routing for one network, independent of equipment vendor or technology.
- SSI URS takes over where the engineers left off
Over time, each engineer develops their own switch translation techniques, and their network elements characteristically reflect those schemes. When introducing automation requires total reorganization of the switch data for a system to operate, not only does the cost of deploying the system go up, but the transition is riskier, and the network element could be left in a state unfamiliar to the engineer. SSI URS Routing automation reflects your local switch-specific customs when working with existing translations so there’s no need to start over.
SSI URS integrates all the inputs that drive routing changes with your network. The result is always a reliable, least cost network that reflects your best routing expertise, optimal use of your network assets and the leverage to take best advantage of your suppliers.