Brings order to chaotic mess of systems, services and silos
Amdocs claims that mobile network operators (MNOs) could monetise their networks through its latest invention, Amdocs Charging (AC), which creates the clarity that the World Wide Web gave to the Internet.
AC imposes order, cuts running costs, gets products to market quicker and expedites a return on investments, Amdocs claims. It’s all achieved by having a single catalogue that can handle a diversity of services and any use case, in any scale, using any technology.
Every type of function is catered for at the technical level and any type of reality, from extended to virtual to augmented, can be applied, according to Anthony Goonetilleke, group president of technology and head of strategy at Amdocs. This is achieved by a “cloud-native charging platform [and] unparalleled convergent experiences [that are] removing the traditional boundaries between IT and network.”
The overview is that AC simplifies all the complexity MNOs have long suffered from. The confusion was a natural consequence of maintaining too many systems, according to Amdocs, which audited multiple business support systems (BSS) for different lines of business with dated requirements, in the process of creating a solution. The confusion over multiple systems and outcomes has stifled the growth of all mobile network operators and telcos, and they are stymied by a dysfunctional family of post and pre-paid contracts, fixed and mobile networks running 3G, 4G and 5G systems. Then there’s the telco cloud factor to contend with.
In the 5G and cloud-native era there is absolutely no excuse for this according to Goonetilleke. These silos are becoming unsustainable, said the tough-love advocate, and a new model is required under which all these functions start showing how they earn their keep. If the telcos can’t do it, Amdocs can because nothing gets past its new Charging regime, it said.