Interconnect Cost Management
Interconnect Cost Management
Based on sophisticated algorithms, this solution leverages a broad range of highly granular data to drive unnecessary costs out of your network. This data can generate optimal cost routing models that balance both cost and Quality of Service (QoS) and provide a rich analytic interface to help identify hidden costs.
Our solution can provide you with a powerful tool to give you insight into complex variable costs, such as cost per minute by tiered rates that were once believed too complex to manage. Creating a linkage between routing plans that reside in the network and the rich information available from our CDR data repository allows for management of, and reporting on, network cost, quality, and performance data. This data is then used for designing the Optimal Cost Routing Model (OCRM) that will be deployed into your network switches. Detailed reporting can then be performed to eliminate the guesswork associated with identifying cost reduction opportunities across a network.
Our optimal routing generator allows you to:
- Define business rules for precision OCRMs, allowing you to account for volume controls, rate modifiers, termination rules filters, network capacity, and QoS
- Incorporate your tariff database
- Optimize routing choices by allowing operations and engineering personnel to incorporate various network quality levers in OCRMs via a web-based interface
- Generate executive dashboards that broadcast key metrics on call completion by jurisdiction and route choice, termination costs, 80/20 analysis, etc. – providing a report card on both cost and quality
- Conduct drill down analysis into granular cost profiles to analyze cost by facility and switch, and review termination and penalty costs by ICP, OCRMs, call exclusions, and more
By zeroing in on data at a call-by-call level of detail and summarizing it up to actionable levels, our solution enables you to identify hidden costs and provides you with ability to take immediate corrective actions. Given the complexity, volume, and dynamic nature of interconnect pricing and cost data, this solution enables you to control the data, while others can simply manage it, thereby yielding a considerable cost savings and competitive advantage.
In generating routing for the network, we go beyond simplistic least cost call routing to optimal cost call routing. We generate optimal cost routing models, or OCRMs, by balancing complex financial variables, customized business rules, network topology and QoS objectives. More specifically, we automatically generate OCRMs by aggregating a broad scope of granular financial variables, including interconnect partner (ICP) rate decks, tariff rates, volume commitments, billing increments, discounts, jurisdictional pricing, and more.
Every time a routing update is run, our optimal routing generator intelligently prioritizes and orchestrates more than 1 million route choices for all possible destinations and generates the OCRM. Thus, enabling you to fully align both network and business objectives - providing unparalleled visibility, insight, and control into network costs.
