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| BT Global Services (UK) |
 BT
Global Services required a high-density prepaid solution that could
accommodate as many as 900 E1 lines throughout Europe and switch over
1.5 billion minutes annually. It was also important that the new prepaid
solution be capable of supporting multiple resellers via Web-based
interfaces, and as always, time-to-market was an important additional
criterion. After reviewing leading prepaid platforms, BT viewed ECT's
AutoCarrier®
Softswitch and Services Application as “… a scaleable,
cost effective solution that meets our needs for delivering value
added services to a Pan European market”, according to Chris
Clark, President Wholesale Business, BT Global Services.
For over two years, BT has been deploying AutoCarrier®
Softswitches and the effECTive®
Service Number Suite for the realisation of intelligent service
numbers. With this new tender for further value-added services, BT
now also joins the long list of major operators offering prepaid services
based on ECT’s cost-efficient solutions.
Looking to the future, ECT’s solution gives BT the option of
implementing innovative prepaid features on the existing platform
(e.g., message forwarding and prepaid conferencing) seamlessly, quickly,
and at any given time. “ECT’s quick implementation period,
coupled with the scalability of the platform fit in very well with
our future expansion plans,” said Chris Clark. Amanda Weatherall,
Procurement Manager of BT Global Services said, "The ECT proposal
was selected against the competition based on it's economic advantage
combined with aggressive leadtimes and compliance to BT's commercial
requirements".
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Background Information on
the AutoCarrier®
Prepaid Solution:
High Availability and High Density. A key factor in prepaid
projects is the scalability and reliability of the technology used.
The Compact-PCI architecture of the AutoCarrier®
ensures high availability and enables the realisation of extremely
large systems in a comparably small space. ECT has delivered BT an
AutoCarrier® Softswitch
with 128 E1 lines, supporting the SS7 IUP protocol. Each high-density
trunk card in the softswitch provides not only 16 E1 lines, but also
the complete digital signalling processors (DSP) required to realise
the interactive voice response for the prepaid services. For this
reason, the ECT solution is able to accommodate up to 192 E1 lines
in just one AutoCarrier®
Communications Server. Moreover, as multiple Communications Servers
can be employed in one softswitching node, BT can quickly and easily
expand the initial installation for the envisaged hundreds of E1 lines.
The architecture of the AutoCarrier®
thus played a key role in winning the BT contract, as these performance
features will support BT’s expansion plans. |
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| Status 06 / 2007 |
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