Introduction | Service Generation and Deployment | Features

Service Creation Environment

The Service Creation Environment (SCE) from Aricent is an enabling solution for developing customer driven convergent services for PSTN, Wireline (IP) and Wireless Networks. The SCE delivers sustained customer value by facilitating rapid development and maintenance of revenue generating services at lower cost independent of underlying network technology.

It meets the requirements for end-to-end service creation and integration for both proprietary as well as standards-based Core Networks and application platforms.

The Aricent SCE' compliance to some of the key next generation services requirements is enabled by its capability to:

• Create and customize services/ applications quickly at lower costs
• Facilitate re-use of convergent services across different networks (Wireless, Wireline(IP), PSTN)
• Create niche services for different vertical industry segments
• Provide support for third- party application development by abstracting difficult technology details

The SCE is being continuously evolved to support upcoming standardization efforts for service creation and integration such as Parlay, OSA and JAIN.

The SCE offers a broad suite of software tools to help a service designer plan, develop, test, deploy and maintain services in a fast, simple and flexible manner. Reuse of service logic, a key requirement for rapid service creation is enabled through an extensive set of Service-Independent Building Blocks (SIBs), each having a pre-defined functionality along with its attributes.

The Winning Edge

• Provides GUI-based programming environment to develop and customize services based on Service Independent Building Blocks (SIBs)
  
  
• Enables IN applications and call-related features for all networking domains (using IN-CS1, IN-CS2, AIN0.2 based SIBs); SIP, PINT, SPIRITS-based enhanced IP and IP-IN applications for Wireline (IP) and PSTN domains; MAP, CAP (CAMEL) and evolving MexE/SAT server-based enhanced wireless applications
  
  
• It can also enable unified communications through service enabling components for Web, WAP, E-mail, SMS, LCS, Telephony and Fax
  
  
• Provides support for third-party application development by abstracting difficult technology details and capability to let user define additional re-usable service blocks as per evolving needs

Applications, Services, Features Support: The SCE can be used by OEMs, application platform vendors, applications developers and potentially service operators to create innovative services/ applications quickly.

Wireline(IP)

• Softswitch
• SIP application servers
• Unified application servers
• Media servers

Wireless

• Core network platforms (MSC's, GSN, SMSC)
• Location & messaging platforms
• Wireless application servers

PSTN

• SCPs/ IN servers
• PSTN adjuncts
  

Last updated : February 2, 2004