The Aricent SPP automates provisioning and activation
of services in the network, eliminating the need for manual intervention
after the Order Management System has recorded a service order. Through its
online provisioning system, SPP improves service agility and time to revenue
by ensuring that the customer’s services are activated immediately. SPP
provides unlimited scope for managing the complex service provisioning rules
that are needed by communications service providers with multiple,
distributed service delivery network components.
SPP functions as a gateway for convergent provisioning
needs, supporting voice, messaging and content services. SPP resolves
technical incompatibility issues by creating a standard service provisioning
and service management interface between the OSS and network elements in a
multi-vendor network. It also provides an interface for managing provisioned
services by capturing all notifications and reporting all alarm conditions
and disruptions as and when they occur in the system.
Aricent’s Companion Lifecycle Services
The majority of Aricent’s products are delivered with
tailored combinations of our Lifecycle Services, including Global Innovation
and Design, Product Development, Testing and Certification, Network
Engineering, Maintenance and Support, and Business Operations and Systems
Integration. Aricent’s engineers and consultants have successfully completed
thousands of services engagements globally using flexible delivery models
ranging from on-site to off-shore. Aricent’s services offer deep
communications domain expertise, cost and time efficiencies, quick ramp up
and contemporary commercial engagement models including end-to-end
commitments.
The Aricent SPP supports all standard service
provisioning capabilities features as well as several unique and advanced
features:
- Supports multiple protocols like telnet, FTP,
CORBA, XML, Sockets, and is technology-agnostic
- Highly scalable and modular architecture
- User-friendly web-based interface
- User-defined command composition GUI
- Enables service request/task configuration through
the UI
- Comprehensive logging and alarm management
- Online and fully automated
- Supports priority provisioning
- Flexible request-to-MML mapping
- Caters to all types of request, from MML to
command line
- Establishes multiple connections to network
elements for improved throughput
- Validates requests internally, reducing network
congestion from incorrect commands
- User-defined service decomposer for one-to-many
command execution
- Interactive service logger
- Interfaces with legacy and next-generation network
elements and protocols through the same instance
- Supports both telecom and data networks from the
same instance
- Reduces total cost of ownership
- Improves service provisioning speed and customer
satisfaction