The Real-Time Interconnect Server
TRI's Assessment of a New Solution for On-Demand, Cost-Adaptive Traffic Routing
Best value traffic routing is a crucial cost management program, yet most service providers can’t fully optimize their policy or achieve the lowest margins possible because they’re hamstrung by cumbersome processes and switch limitations. The chief bottlenecks are these:
- Difficulties around the creation and switch-translation of routing policies force carriers to work with only a handful of interconnect suppliers; limiting competition and keeping interconnect rates artificially high.
- Interconnect suppliers who used to keep their rates constant for months at a time are now changing their rates weekly, sometimes daily. This puts pressure on carriers to quickly revise their policies and translate that policy to take advantage of the best rates.
- Legacy and next-generation switches lack the online database capacity to support robust routing policy, meaning the best a service provider can deliver is a diluted, sub-optimal policy to their networks that’s at best two weeks old.
To solve these routing policy problems, this paper discusses the benefits of deploying a real-time interconnect server whose job is to centrally route traffic for all switches via signaling. With centralized routing off a standard database, policy can become highly granular and optimized with changes made on-demand. In addition to lowering interconnect costs by expanding competitive bidding among suppliers, the solution adapts routing policy to real-world results,can deliver a stratified QoS policy by customer value, manage fraud in real-time, and reduce switch translation labor costs.
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