Unipier Integrates its Intelligent Policy Manager into Partner Fraunhofer’s FOKUS SOA Telco Playground
Partnership will enhance Fraunhofer FOKUS SOA Telco Playground with advanced policy management abilities for flexible service control
Unipier Ltd. is now a new industry partner of the Fraunhofer FOKUS Telco SOA Playground. Providing a valuable extension to the existing Telco network environment, The firm is integrating its ‘Intelligent Policy Manager’ product in the service-oriented environment at the Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS. In addition to offering advanced service functionalities, the Intelligent Policy Manager will also enhance the overall performance of the SOA Telco Playground.
Another product, the field proven Intelligent Policy Manager (IPM), is the first single platform to offer centralized, real-time control over all policy domains and service delivery channels. The OMA’s (Open Mobile Alliance) PEEM (Policy Evaluation Enforcement Management) standard is its foundation and offers real- time policy decision management capabilities to the IPM. Mobile operators require a central solution for managing any service-related business aspect, as they seek to increase their service value on top of advanced architectures such as IMS. Unipier’s IPM enables them to optimize the user experience, strengthen loyalty, increase revenues across any service and channel, and to flexibly address any policy need.
“Without reusable components no future service provider will be able to offer efficient and effective new services,” says Professor Thomas Magedanz, head of Next Generation Network Infrastructures at FOKUS, describing the basis of the new partnership. “With Unipier’s Policy Manager we now have a module rather like a Service Broker that tells us which service components - like Messaging, Charging, Streaming, etc. – we can use, and offers easy means for when and how to use them. In the Open SOA Telco Playground we shall now use the Intelligent Policy Manager to coordinate and orchestrate our various network infrastructures IMS, Peer-to-Peer or other established networks with the wide world of service development and service execution – right through to Web2.0.”
“Our partnership with Fraunhofer FOKUS and integration of our Policy Manager in the Open SOA Telco environments will give us valuable insights into the ways in which our product can be used in a variety of telecom environments, such as the IMS Playground” says Gabby Levy, CEO at Unipier talking about the new partnership. “We are proud to take an active part at this cutting-edge telco playground provided by FOKUS, which enables us to present operators with the required level of policy management and flexibility they seek for offering targeted services over advanced environments like IMS.”
Unipier’s Intelligent Policy Manager can be integrated on top of any service delivery architecture, making it platform-independent and application-neutral. As the key point for the regulation of service access and user rights, it enables telecom providers to streamline and accelerates network and network functionality delivery to third parties while ensuring advanced service marketing abilities.
About Unipier Ltd.
Unipier, a pioneer of Intelligent Policy Management and service delivery solutions, offers service delivery products and solutions that empower mobile operators to rapidly create, integrate, deliver and control a wide range of services, across next-generation service delivery architectures.
Unipier’s Intelligent Policy Management serves as a flexible modeling environment and a business decision point for every service event and process. It is easily integrated on top of existing service delivery infrastructure allowing for a cost-efficient implementation of policies and business logic across any service and delivery channel. Unipier’s Intelligent Policy Suite offers a comprehensive set of end-to-end service policy solutions, increasing operator added-value and improving overall user experience. These solutions cover domains, such as service offers, charging and bundling, mobile advertising, recommendations and promotions, viral marketing, parental control, and user privacy.
Unipier solutions empower leading mobile operators, such as Telefonica, Wind, Vodafone Italy, O2, Telenor, UMC, Cellcom, and Orange Israel.
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Open SOA Telco Playground
The Open SOA Telco Playground can be regarded as the natural north bound extension of the FOKUS Open IMS Playground. Founded in 2004 as the IP Multimedia System (IMS), it is considered today as the unifying architectural framework for the provision of seamless IP based services on top of converging networks, and as the south bound foundation for many Service Delivery Platforms (SDPs). This vendor and operator independent technology playground represents an open test bed for experiencing and validating the development, provisioning, execution, and management of converging Next Generation Network and future Internet applications based on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) principles. The major focal point is on the provision of telecom oriented service capabilities based on state of the art SOA principles for an open set of business domains.
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