Empowering multi-vendor, multi-technology wireless and wireline xSPs

Pisa, 6 December 2011 – WiTech presented at AfricaCom 2011 WiTech OSS/BSS Suite, a comprehensive set of engines and applications that empowers multi-vendor, multi-technology wireless and wireline xSPs with effective tools to address the challenges of today's market. The WiTech OSS/BSS Suite consists of the following components:

• WROP|AAA is an AAA (Authentication Authorization, Accounting) system built around a fully-compliant RADIUS server. It enables service providers and fully networked enterprises to centrally manage AAA functions for their network subscribers and users.
• WROP|ASM is an access and service management platform built on the WROP|AAA foundation. It delivers advanced features for network access control, subscriber management, service definition and provisioning, direct and indirect sales channel management, and support of prepaid and postpaid accounts.
• WROP|Billing is an add-on module of the WROP|ASM platform implementing all key functions needed to issue and manage invoices.
• WROP|Wi-Fi is an application built on top of the WROP|ASM platform to deliver managed Wi-Fi public hotspot and enterprise services.
• TelcoGIS is a web-based, integrated GIS, tailored to support service providers in making better decisions, improving operational effectiveness and increasing sales through better customer service and planning.
• TR-069 ACS streamlines and simplifies the entire service life cycle of broadband devices from their deployment to their on-going management and support.
• Operation Support Portal is a single, easy-to-use integrated portal, devised for operational people to perform key daily activities leveraging the WROP, TelcoGIS and TR-069 ACS systems.

These modules, alone and combined together, enable the construction of highly cost-effective and flexible solutions tailored for each service provider’s business requirements and helping them creating, delivering, monitoring and charging the services that customers are buying today.

“The next generation network era brings with it many new business opportunities, but to seize them OSS/BSS must be as ‘next generation’ as the network it supports. Thus, OSS/BSS is required to provide a very high level of availability and integration, as well as to offer the capability to change quickly and support new processes and market propositions.” said Andrea Calcagno, CEO & EVP of WiTech, “Starting from the detailed understanding of your needs and analyzing your possible legacy system constraints, we design cost-effective and forward-looking OSS/BSS on the basis of the technical and organizational aspects, as well as integration and migration issues.”

The WiTech OSS/BSS Suite enables service providers to optimally exploit the potential of their broadband access networks giving this way a better support to their different business models and functional areas. Moreover, with WiTech OSS/BSS Suite service providers will be able to quickly react to an ever-changing business environment, reducing time-to-market and time to revenues by utilizing their capital more efficiently, increasing ROI and decreasing TCO, introducing this way new services, easily and quickly, in order to meet completely customers' needs and consistently delivering quality services.