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Multi-Service Platform
In today’s highly competitive telecom industry, service differentiation and segmentation are becoming critical factors in success. The same kind of service may be packaged differently for different group of users. This calls for flexible and versatile platform, which can host different applications. Moreover, able to host multiple services help to reduce total cost of ownership, reducing service providers’ CAPEX and OPEX
IP Convergence
COSMOS-II sits horizontally across different network access elements, allowing same service to be deployed across different service network domains such as PSTN, mobile network, 3G, and VoIP. The core of the system is SIP IP based and is positioned to migrate to IP Multimedia Sub-System (IMS) architecture.
Open Platform That Leverages Web Technologies
Nowadays, web technologies are commonly used in IT world. More and more service logics are developed in the principle of web based Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). COSMOS-II works with web server in the way similar to a web browser with a web server. It communicates with web server via http or https and exchanging data in XML format. This open platform approach greatly lowers the learning cycle of a web developer to deploy telecom voice and multimedia applications. Open to Large Developer Community By using the standard web technologies, industry well adopted skills can be used and it opens to large developer community base. The entry barrier to building telecom-enabled applications is dramatically lowered and more IT practitioners will be able to enter the telecom arena without acquiring specialized telecom knowledge. Managed and Unified Access of Network Resources Able to exploit the full strength of the underlying resource capabilities is key to the success of the service platform. COSMOS-II provides an abstract layer for developers to utilize the resources in a managed and regulated manner. Carrier Grade Performance, Scalability and Reliability The system was designed with carrier grade performance and reliability. Due to the distributed IP architecture, system can be easily scaled up to meet the business expansion requirement. Cost Effective Industry Components
The system adopts open standard and makes use of common off-the-shelf components. Host processes are running on Linux and Intel Architecture based server, which ensures great reliability and cost saving. Depends on the capacity requirement, hardware form factors range from PCI, cPCI to ATCA, which can handle from few ports to thousands of port in a chassis.