Botswana is deploying Acision Multi-VAS, meaning the operator can consolidate a
number of its services, including voice, text and multimedia messaging, onto
one single platform.
This will enable Orange Botswana to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) of its infrastucuture while at the same
time driving service innovation and gaining an enhanced level of flexibility in
its network.
Acision Multi-VAS incorporates a
broad range of Acision solutions including its
SMSC, MMSC, Acision HSP and elements of its real-time charging and active
mediation portfolio. In addition, Orange Botswana will also be able to
leverage various new Person-2-Person, Application-2-Person and Person-2-Application
messaging services.
The advent of multi-VAS offerings
presents service providers with a unique set of opportunities to enhance
service management and innovation.
As existing value added services
continue to evolve and new ones are developed, the network architecture must,
in turn, develop to maintain compatibility with this pace of evolution and
growth.Acision Multi-VAS, effectively provides a future-proof architecture,
which will enable Orange Botswana to launch new services in a carrier-grade
environment while simplifing and centralising the operational management
including alarming, analysis and reporting of services. This not only
drives operational efficiency but enables the operator to expand the
architecture in order to accommodate new features and functionality in the
future.
“As we continue to roll-out new
and evolved services, it is imperative that our network architecture has the
capability to support this level of development. Acision’s Multi-VAS provides
us with a revolutionary, future-ready system enabling us to reduce TCO and
drive significant OPEX savings in both the short and long-term, as well as
enhance our network flexibility. On top of this, its consolidated nature
provides our customers with more integrated and exciting services, further
optimising and enhancing the end-user experience,” said Isaac
KETLHOAFETSE, IT manager, Orange Botswana.
“Acision’s new Multi-VAS
solution provides Orange Botswana with a simplified, cost effective platform
which will support the operator’s existing and future services portfolio. The
scalable nature of the architecture enables Orange Botswana to drive and
develop much more innovative services in a cost-effective manner. The delivery
of Acision Multi-VAS is a further example of our rapidly-expanding presence and
commitment to the African market,” said Sherif Hamoudah, managing director
Acision Middle East, Africa & Pakistan.
By Telecomlead.com Team
editor@telecomlead.com
