Sigma Active Mediation Platform (AMP) is a flexible, advanced, and convergent billing mediation system that supports any data exchange between any systems in real-time (on-line or active mediation) or batch mode (off-line mediation). It is designed with the objective to provide maximum flexibility and to enable service providers quickly adapt to the ever-changing requirements and competitive challenges of the communication industry.
AMP is based on a modular architecture, where functionality and processing capacity can seamlessly be added to over time. As such, the product provides a future-proof billing mediation infrastructure that promotes deployment of mediation solutions that scale dynamically with business requirements and volume.
AMP enables the convergence of communications services, supporting a wide range of network elements and communication protocols for different types of networks, for voice, data, and multi-media communications. Support for IMS-enabled services, as well as for both prepaid and post-paid customer types are supported by AMP.
Redefining the billing mediation space, AMP bridges the network services delivery infrastructure from the business support systems, seamlessly insulating the way services are delivered from the way they are charged or analyzed. As the communications industry evolves, AMP protects current investments, reduces operational and capital expenditure, and ensures accurate and timely delivery of service resource utilization.
AMP meets the needs of multi-service operators now and in the future, it is equally suitable for deployment in traditional batch environments, as well as in next-generation, real-time networks. It seamlessly bridges any protocols and/or data formats, and provides all the functionality required to ensure that a service is delivered accurately and in concert with the rest of the OSS/BSS architecture.
AMP provides the advanced, active transfer of valuable usage data from the network and CPE devices to the OSS/BSS systems who rely on the information for accurate billing, service delivery, targeted advertising and other core operational and business processes.
Sigma AMP is an operational support system designed to adapt to each target environment and operator’s specific requirements. As a fully convergent system, it provides a component based architecture built around the following concepts:
- Graphics Driven Process Modeling and Configuration
- Network Runtime Environment
- Value-added Management Applications
- Advanced, Open Architecture
- AMP uses the latest software technologies and provides a future proof platform, where open APIs enable compliance with the latest development in protocols and industry requirements.
- Extension Agents to speed implementation and seamlessly integrate into incumbent OSS/BSS architectures
- AMP includes pre-build support for network elements, switches from leading suppliers, industry standards and protocols including Nortel, Cisco, IPDR, GTP, Diameter, TCP, FTP and many others.
Communication service providers are now rolling out IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) as their next-generation service delivery infrastructure. IMS enables seamless convergence between any access technology, such telco, mobile and cable.
IMS defines charging standards for both offline and online charging based on the Diameter protocol. These interfaces coexist with other charging protocols. Mediation plays a key role to ensure the interaction and end-to-end transactions between systems.
The roll-out and implementation of a next-generation service fulfillment and BSS infrastructure requires an advanced and convergent mediation system to enable the charging of new services delivered over multi-technology networks. It enables the consolidation of multiple disparate mediation systems for different network architectures onto a single mediation platform, reducing complexity and cost.
Active mediation plays an essential role in the collection and dissemination of customer usage data to analytic engines for targeted advertising. With Sigma AMP and Sigma Subscriber Information Service solution, you can offer uniquely targeted advertising programs to your advertisers based on implied consumer interest from your customers’ usage behaviors such as: