For many years, intelligent peripherals have been used in intelligent networks (IN) to interact with callers, playing announcements and responding to DTMF key presses.
As operators roll out their next-generation networks they are looking to migrate these existing applications to a media resource function (MRF) within the IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) whilst retaining all their legacy intelligent peripheral applications. Minimising rework while allowing a planned migration strategy is an important feature in today's cost-conscious market.
The OKEFORD Media Platform can act as an intelligent peripheral in IN networks with signaling protocols including INAP, CAMEL and WIN-IS771 ensuring it can be easily connected and controlled from a signaling control point (SCP) in wireline and both GSM and CDMA wireless networks to play customized voice applications. Indeed it can support wired and wireless interfaces concurrently enabling the roll-out of services to multiple networks using a single platform and easy migration from 2G to 3G or CDMA to GSM wireless networks. The OKEFORD also supports SIP and VoiceXML allowing applications created in VoiceXML to simultaneously control the intelligent peripheral.
Typical intelligent peripheral applications developed by operators, system integrators and OEMs include:
In addition to supporting IN standards the OKEFORD Media Platform supports an extremely wide range of SS7 ISUP country variants making this intelligent peripheral easy to deploy into virtually any telephony network in the world.
A highly capable media platform, the OKEFORD can use RTP/SIP to connect to next-generation networks and interface with application servers using SIP and VoiceXML acting as an IMS MRF. This powerful server can even run intelligent peripheral and IMS MRF services concurrently allowing operators to replace their current intelligent peripherals with modern equivalent media platforms that will service current and future needs within one unit.
The OKEFORD Media Platform supports a broad range of signaling protocols and has been widely deployed in the wired, wireless, cable and VoIP networks of more than 100 countries by more than 250 operators.
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