Amdocs introduces CES 8

Amdocs unveiled Amdocs CES 8, the industry’s most advanced product portfolio designed to enable service providers to run leaner today while preparing them to lead in the connected world where it’s predicted that by 2017 more than seven trillion devices will require support, bandwidth and new business models.

Amdocs CES 8 helps service providers evolve and expand quickly by exposing network, IT and data assets to a growing ecosystem of content and developer partners.  The portfolio drives personalized and simple customer experiences by concealing the complexities of new applications and devices from the end user, all while ensuring that service providers can run lean and agile operations with the industry’s most advanced technology that lowers cost and improves efficiency.    

Service providers have the opportunity to expand their reach within communications, media and entertainment. In addition, they have an opportunity to expand into new verticals with new services, revenue streams and business models.  jNetX, recently acquired by Amdocs, provides a Java-based convergent service platform that synchronizes network services across legacy and IP network elements for rich communication applications in a standardized development environment. Amdocs jNetX is the service control point for Amdocs prepaid solutions, managing real-time credit authorization and account deduction, integrating with Amdocs Convergent Charging real-time rating and account balance management.

Amdocs CES 8 enables service providers to deliver and drive a superior personalized experience across multiple touch points. Amdocs Universal Storefront hides the complexity of service providers’ different offerings and configurations, allowing consumers to experience a familiar, simple shopping experience.

Amdocs CES 8 helps service providers embrace streamlined, agile operations that lower costs structures while enabling them to respond faster to the market. Amdocs’ real-time charging product supports the Linux/x86 operating system, and can now run on multiple servers based on the Intel Xeon family of processors, or on other x86 processors. As a result, service providers can support surging prepaid subscriber bases and data services proliferation by adding low-cost servers, and maintaining efficient charging operations.

In a recent benchmark that ran charging scenarios for 150 million subscribers, Amdocs Convergent Charging (Turbo Charging) set the industry record when measuring real-time charging performance for 120 million prepaid subscribers with 230,000 events per second. Using a single, real-time process flow for both prepaid and postpaid scenarios, the product also enables service providers to improve charging performance and reduce hardware requirements for convergent charging operations as well as offer real-time services such as usage notifications to postpaid subscribers for better insight into individual data consumption.