The competitive Mobile marketplace means Providers must find ways to overcome decreasing revenue from customer churn and tight average revenue per user (ARPU).
Mobile Providers must evolve to survive, improving business efficiency while expanding revenue with innovative, data-enabling services based on EDGE, GPRS and 3G (UMTS).
Critical to this success is a reliable, flexible Operational Support System (OSS) that can:
The S2Net network management suite is ideal for Mobile Providers. Incorporating a sophisticated OSS for service configuration, resource provisioning and inventory management, it then provides tools to:
The S2Net suite provides integrated, flow-through provisioning for Mobile Providers, is easily configurable and can be integrated with other inventory, workflow and activation systems. S2Net is a complete network management solution. Not limited to just mobile networks, it also supports a wide range of other technology, such as: ATM, DSL, Ethernet, Frame Relay, SDH & SONET, DWDM, PDH and IP.
Business Benefits for Mobile Providers
100% Consistent Data View – a unified, multi-vendor, time-spanning database means S2Net improves design confidence and reduces errors, ensuring mobile rollouts are delivered on time while minimising rework costs.
Sophisticated Validation – avoid errors with technology-aware and process-aware validation. All S2Net tools are driven by configurable rules to ensure your mobile network is consistent and correct throughout the lifecycle of all components.
Standards-based Data – the database model is based on accepted ITU-T and ETSI standards to meet the needs of today and tomorrow, supporting all equipment regardless of vendor.
Automated Business Processes – S2Net streamlines service and infrastructure provisioning through powerful rules-based automation. This flow-through provisioning speeds labour-intensive tasks, for example installing a base station or transceiver upgrade in minutes.
Open Integration – S2Net uses standard interfaces to connect with other systems, so does not lock you into a proprietary solution or prevent you from using products from other vendors. Build on your existing OSS investment.
Extensibility – extend the S2Net business, technology and engineering rules in-house to bring new generations of mobile products and services to market quickly.
Maximise Network Utilisation – clever design algorithms locate and utilise idle infrastructure to maximise network utilisation.
Maximise Reliability – S2Net brings protection and Effect-of-Failure reports so you can design critical, failure-resistant services and infrastructure
Vendor-independence – S2Net supports equipment from leading suppliers, such as Alcatel Lucent, Sony Ericsson, Nortel, Siemens Nokia, Fujitsu, NEC, Cisco and Marconi.
Deploying UTMS requires Providers to support both circuit-switched and packet-switched network elements in a GSM/GPRS network with UMTS overlay for backward-compatibility. Our support for multiple concurrent technologies makes S2Net ideal for UTMS.
| I/f | Between... |
|---|---|
| A | Mobile Switching Centre (MSC) to Base Station Controller (BSC) |
| A-bis | BSC to Base Transceiver Station (BTS) |
| B | MSC to Vistor Location Register (VLR) |
| C | Home Location Register (HLR) to Gateway MSC (GMSC) |
| D | VLR to HLR |
| E | MSC to MSC |
| F | MSC to Equipment Identity Register (EIR) |
| G | VLR to VLR (belonging to different MSCs) |
| H | MSC to SMS-G |
| I/f | Between... |
|---|---|
| Ga | GPRS Support Node (GSN) to Charging Gateway Function (CGF) |
| Gb | Service GSN (SGSN) and the BSC |
| Gc | Gateway GSN (GGSN) and HLR |
| Gd | SGSN and SMS-G |
| Gf | SGSN and EIR |
| Gi | GGSN and Public Data Network (PDN) |
| Gn | GGSN and SGSN |
| Gp | GGSN and SGSN (in different networks) |
| Gs | MSC and SGSN |
| I/f | Between... |
|---|---|
| Iu-PS | Radio Network Controllers (RNCs) and packetswitched core network |
| Iu-CS | RNCs and the circuit0switched core network |
| Iur | Neighbuouring RNCs |
| Iub | RNC and NOde B (radio transceiver) |
| I/f | Between... |
|---|---|
| A-quater | Packet Control Function (PCF) to the packet-switched network |
| A | BSC to the circuit-switched core network |
| A-quinter | BSC to PCF |
| A-bis | BSC to BTS |
| A-ter | BSC to BSC |
The evolution to 3G CDMA is similar to GSM.
Radio transmission is often the optimum for cost and reliability in mobile transmission (sometimes being the only option). S2Net handles:
Satellite transmission provides very large capacity for a mobile network backbone. S2Net manages this capacity efficiently over time.
Configurable validation rules built on international mobile and transmission standards makes S2Net the ideal network management solution for Mobile Providers, both now and for the future.