Cantata Prepaid Applications

Applications

Prepaid Services

Prepaid services comprise one of the fastest-growing segments in the telecommunications industry. They help both businesses and individuals control their budgets, and they allow service providers to build closer bonds with subscribers. Today's service providers demand cost-effective and flexible platforms for their prepaid services. Their service platforms must be able to expand gracefully as the subscriber base grows, and they must be able to adapt to evolving network architectures and technologies.

Today, prepaid calling card solutions can offer much more than traditional prepaid voice services. New prepaid solutions can include data services and other high-margin, value-added services such as Short Message Service (SMS), Enhanced Message Service (EMS), Multi-Media Message Service (MMS) and ring back tones.

The successful delivery of prepaid services requires flexible open services platforms that address service provider needs for profitable applications and bridge existing fixed and mobile networks with next-generation IP networks. It also requires platforms with flexible media handling capabilities so that service providers can easily incorporate rich media into prepaid services.

As enhanced prepaid voice and data services are introduced to new communities of users, they rapidly gain in popularity and usage. Once familiar with the services, subscribers will use them with increasing frequency, and they will become less likely to change service providers. For the service provider, this means increased revenue and decreased customer churn—but it also means that networks platforms must be able to scale to support new users and prepaid services.

Prepaid services can be offered across mobile IP-based networks and traditional voice networks. Open systems platforms are needed that enable quick and reliable delivery of diverse prepaid services. These platforms must also be capable of expanding gracefully to adopt new services and to support more subscribers and increased usage.

The Cantata Value Proposition

Cantata offers high-performance, carrier-grade; open services platforms that allow service providers to swiftly deploy a wide range of prepaid voice and data services. These systems address service provider needs for profitable applications, and they bridge existing fixed and mobile networks with next-generation IP networks. Cantata’s product family provides network operators with both IP and PSTN call control as well as media processing and signaling, and allow service providers to offer prepaid services across TDM, hybrid and next-generation SIP-based networks.

Accelerate Time-to-Revenue
Cantata has long been providing industry-leading platforms for prepaid services. Carriers can be assured that by deploying Cantata-based solutions they can leverage industry standards to swiftly bring new services to market. A Cantata-based prepaid solution can be deployed quickly and profitably, and prepaid solutions using Cantata platforms can be deployed in both fixed and mobile networks leveraging IN, service node and/or SIP-based architectures.

Cost Effective
Open services platforms from Cantata enable smooth interoperability with legacy network equipment and allow service providers to offer prepaid services in next-generation IP networks. Cantata solutions minimize the cost and complexity of deploying new services, and they allow service providers to continue to cost-effectively expand their portfolios of prepaid services.

Flexible and Scalable
Service providers can deploy prepaid services across circuit-switched, packet-switched, fixed and mobile networks, and Cantata platforms can cost-effectively scale to accommodate market demands.

Cantata Product Offerings

The Cantata Excel Converged Services Platform (CSP) 2090 is a high-performance, carrier-grade open platform for enabling profitable pre-paid services. It bridges existing wired and wireless networks with next-generation IP networks, integrating protocols for IP, TDM and IN. It provides IP and PSTN call control as well as media processing and comprehensive signaling, and allows service providers to swiftly generate new revenues from a broad array of prepaid services.

The Cantata Excel Multi-Services Platform (MSP) 1010 is designed for emerging service providers offering high-value, enhanced voice services for TDM or convergent networks. Expanding upon the success of the CSP 2090, the MSP 1010 offers service providers a small-footprint, modular, scalable and cost-effective media resource platform with complementary signaling capabilities. It is designed for deployment in legacy, convergent, fixed or mobile networks as a classic IN/AIN service node or service switching point.

The Cantata SnowShore IP Media Server is the industry's premier software-based, carrier-grade IP media server. It leverages the simplicity, openness and flexibility of SIP, VoiceXML and MSCML to provide a cost-effective and scalable IP media server solution. It provides feature-rich multimedia processing resources supported by a growing list of industry-leading applications, speeding deployment of prepaid services.

The Cantata Integrated Media Gateway (IMG) 1010 is a carrier-grade VoIP gateway solution that offers significant capital and operational savings while simultaneously speeding time to market. It is unique in its ability to serve as an SS7 signaling server and media gateway with media processing capability all in one. By integrating multiple network functions, the IMG 1010 improves network performance. It eliminates call hand-offs and re-direction, improving call setup time and accelerating the cost-effective integration of prepaid services.

A Foundation for Innovation

Cantata has developed a global ecosystem of partners whose knowledge and experience is unrivalled. We’re able to help accelerate your speed-to-market, reduce your risks and ensure that you deploy your solutions with the utmost confidence. Cantata and our partners can provide you with proven; commercially deployed prepaid solutions that best fit your business plan for growth and success.