What do you WANT to do? CDA can probably do it. Below are just some of the network functions customers have built with CDA:
- SIP Redirect Server
- Transaction Stateful SIP Proxy
- Session Stateful SIP Proxy
- Protocol Interworking Functions (IWF)
- Routing on CgPN, CdPN, Trunkgroup, E911, RPH, etc
- Routing on Media Type (HD voice, Fax) and QoS
- Least Cost Routing (LCR)
- Routing by QoS (e.g. Wholesale, National, VIP)
- Ingress, Egress, Flow Control
- Buffer, Smooth, Bursty Traffic Rates
- Call Restrictions (e.g. time based blocking)
- Blacklist, Whitelist Call Screening
- Full Featured Toll Free Support
- Number Analysis and Conditioning (CgPN, CdPN)
- Message, Header Add/Mod/Del (includes SDP/codec)
- External Referral Query (retrieve data from 3rd party node)
- Fraud Detection and Call Termination
- Long Call Detection, Termination
- CDRS, Intermediate Long Call CDRs
- Private Dial Plans, Private IP Plans
- Central Network Routing Layer (CRE)
- Central Network Provisioning
- 4G Location Retrieval Function (LRF)
- IN-SCP (Prepaid, Toll Free, Number Translation, etc.)
PLUS, combinations of the above and others (including OTS apps).
Customers have been very inventive, taking full advantage of CDAs to solve complex network problems that could not have been solved any other way. Digging deeper into just a few of the blocks above, to the right is a sampling of some of the broad categories of CDA Titan.ium has implemented with customers:
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NEW NETWORK SERVICES
Service velocity is key to prospering in today’s hyper competitive telecom environment. A Titan.ium CDA can accelerate the way for you. As an example, a CDA can leverage multiple existing network capabilities, add into them your own network “secret sauce” and provide all of the OSS and BSS interfaces needed to create a complete service offering. The resulting new service can then be brought to market quickly, delivering a true competitive differentiator.
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CENTRALIZED ROUTING ENGINE (CRE)
A common CDA-based multi-protocol network routing layer can simplify the network by eliminating the “spaghetti” that may result from multiple coexisting technologies. Doing so lowers OPEX, makes the network easier to maintain and increases both reliability and availability.
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LEAST COST ROUTING (LCR)
Least Cost Routing (LCR) can dramatically improve network profitability, but existing commercial solutions may be too expensive or too complex. A CDA-based LCR solution can be fit to just the LCR functions your network needs, minimizing the cost profile and the operations impact. CDA-based LCRs can operate wholly standalone (rate cards loaded manually or via automated provisioning) or can be integrated with an external LCR engine as network need dictates.
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PROTOCOL INTERWORKING FUNCTION (IWF)
Protocols are standardized, but their interworking to maintain network services aren’t. An IWF can neatly interwork many disparate protocols, handily connecting older technology services to new technology access, or visa-versa.
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INTELLIGENT NETWORKS SERVICE CONTROL POINTS (SCP)
IN SCP’s remain powerful enablers of network services even today. However, many existing IN-SCP vendors are moving their offers to End-of-Life (EOL) status, jeopardizing deployed and gainful service differentiators. A CDA can replace existing EOL IN-SCPs while streamlining the footprint, cost, and complexity of the implementation.
A CDA-based IN-SCP can do much more than just replace aging and EOL SCPs however. It can also deliver a multitude of new IN-compliant network services, including number translations, CNAM, scam scoring, prepaid inter-network direct settlement and more.
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FRAUD DETECTION AND PREVENTION
CDAs have been deployed to detect and prevent CLI Spoofing, Wangiri, SMS Fraud, subscriber data harvesting and much, much more. Using a CDA for this purpose can be much more impactful than deploying an “off the shelf” fraud solution. This is because Titan.ium’s experience has shown that while such solutions may protect against ubiquitous and well-known fraud use cases, each network often has its own very specific and nuanced vulnerabilities that are unique to them.
A rules based CDA fraud solution can be molded to meet these unique needs while providing the operator with the ability to evolve their solution on their own as bad actors evolve their threat scenarios by simply adding new rules. A CDA-based fraud and security solution can therefore secure the network from both current and future threats, protecting both network subscribers and network ROI from the persistent and continually evolving attacks of threat actors.
