Interconnect Manager maintains full records for each partner agreement. It also provides near real-time monitoring of the current financial position with each partner. This makes it easy to spot re-filing and other issues, giving the opportunity for a proactive approach to managing interconnect agreements.
Interconnect Manager
Maximise your wholesale margins with smarter Interconnect Billing
Cerillion Interconnect Manager is a complete interconnect billing and settlement solution for fixed, mobile, cable and multi-play Communications Services Providers.
Amid the continuing de-regulation of global telecom markets, interconnect can form as much as 50% of the total ongoing costs of operation for many CSPs today. This means that interconnect management is now more important than ever. The growth in data and content services means that margin management is vital, and leading CSPs are now deploying Next Generation Networks in a bid to provide fully convergent services to an increasingly demanding customer base. With the arrival of many new entrants and the growing threat from over-the-top (OTT) digital service providers, proactive management of interconnect partners has become critical to sustaining a competitive advantage.
Cerillion Interconnect Manager is a complete interconnect billing system that allows you to manage interconnect agreements and improve overall profitability. From rapid production of interconnect bills for inbound traffic, to efficient reconciliation of bills for outbound traffic, it provides all the tools needed to negotiate high-value interconnect agreements. Interconnect Manager also enables improved cash flow through accurate billing and prompt settlement, and helps to maximise the Return on Investment (RoI) for existing network assets.
Key Benefits of Cerillion Interconnect Manager
Maximise your margins
Proactively manage your partners and negotiate improved interconnect agreements based on near real-time data.
Improved cash flow
Speed up the time to interconnect settlement with a near real-time management view of the status of all your agreements.
Multi-tenancy
Supports multiple legal entities in one system, allowing interconnect billing across affiliates to be monitored from a central place.
Optimal cost routing
Re-rate an entire month’s traffic within minutes, allowing almost instant analysis of the impact of alternate routes or newly negotiated agreements.
Operational efficiency
Set-up and launch new interconnect routes and agreements using automated rate loading.
Revenue assurance
Early identification of suspense files enables rapid re-processing prior to the end of the billing period, maximising the amount of billable interconnect traffic and minimising revenue leakage.
Key Features of Cerillion Interconnect Manager
Interconnect partner management
Traffic monitoring and reporting
Interconnect Manager monitors network traffic in real time, allowing you to compare expected vs. actual routing to optimise configuration and maximise RoI. Our interconnect billing system is also equipped with a set of Business Insights reports and dashboards, enabling users to easily explore, visualise and query their interconnect data.
Carrier-grade rating
Interconnect places entirely different demands on the rating engine compared with retail billing. Interconnect billing systems need to manage a much smaller number of billable accounts (interconnect partners), but with many times more CDRs to be processed per account. The analysis of these CDRs, whether for generating reports, performing least cost routing, or conducting “what if?” scenarios, requires repeated re-rating.
Interconnect Manager uses a unique system of CDR aggregation. This approach sorts incoming CDRs by a series of criteria such as partner name, destination, product type, size of call, time of day or date, point of interconnect and switch. The resulting aggregates can be manipulated quickly and easily, allowing for the highest possible performance in rating and making re-rating practical at any time. It also means that less hardware is needed to operate a high performance system.
Automated rate loading
Interconnect agreements have come a long way from their origins as long term agreements which were only reviewed and changed annually. In de-regulated markets, interconnect agreements are frequently re-negotiated as new entrants offer cheaper routes, forcing incumbents to compete and manage these new agreements.
Our interconnect billing system meets this challenge by providing a universal formatter for uploading partner tariff tables. This allows for bulk entry of new / amended tariffs in multiple formats, automatically loading them into Interconnect Manager. This dramatically reduces the time needed to maintain configuration data and ultimately offers the ability to drive down costs and improve margins.
Least cost routing
Interconnect Manager incorporates a comprehensive suite of Least Cost Routing (LCR) and optimal routing tools. These allow for comparison of rate offerings from a range of current (and potential) interconnect partners to determine the best value route for each destination. These are prioritised according to the route quality and level of savings available, enabling easy identification of quick wins or providing substance to negotiate improved rates with existing partners.
It can also test offers against the current network topology compared with the impact of proposed network extensions. This enables you to carry out smart financial decision-making based on real data.
Revenue assurance
Interconnect Manager provides a management dashboard detailing the status of all interconnect agreements at any time. End-to-end traceability enables drill down to the individual call level, and reject records can be viewed and re-processed in near real-time. Rejects are organised by class making it easy to correct the root cause of each problem; they are also organised by value, focusing attention on the issues that really make a difference.
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