Application Servers

Application Servers Overview

The telecom application server is at the core of creating and executing real-time, transaction or session based interactive services. It supports service creation, execution, exposure and network interfaces for call control and interactive services. In today’s environment, if your application server cannot help you quickly and easily create and deploy innovative services and cross promotions, and respond quickly to competitive offers, you're risking customer dissatisfaction and increased churn.

Filling the Need

Our telecom application servers can help you cost-effectively speed innovative, revenue-generating services to market in any network environment, and respond to any marketplace opportunity presented by the transition to IP-based networks.

The Ericsson Converged Application Server is the platform of choice for meeting real-time, interactive service provider challenges. Whether you operate a mobile, fixed, cable, IP, IMS or converged network, this powerful telecom application server lets you build, test and deploy the hottest services. Common infrastructure components include a high performance in-memory real-time Subscriber Database and flexible Service Creation Environment (SCE). Our Converged Application Server’s strengths in service creation and programmability allow you to:

Increase Top Line Revenue through Innovation

• Generate new revenue and increase customer loyalty by bringing prebuilt services quickly to market
• Create differentiated services to meet the lifestyles of your customers
• Gain access to Over the Top (OTT) and partner content value chains by exposing unique telecom assets
• Create innovative personalized service offerings through mash-ups of network and cloud services
• Micro-segment your market and target with real-time, personalized interactive services

Increase Bottom Line Profit from Innovation

• Benefit from common infrastructure and operational components across converged applications and innovative services
• Realize ongoing price performance advantages with commercial off-the-shelf hardware and software
• Maximize reuse and speed time-to-market with common resources, enablers, building blocks and subscriber data
• Reduce the impacts of change by abstracting services from underlying network technology
• Preserve value from existing service investments through reuse
• Gain access to readily available developer skill sets with standards-based development environment

Our Converged Application Server powers our application server based Charging and Policy portfolio. This broad-based portfolio complements the Ericsson Composition Engine to help monetize convergent services and deliver a compelling interactive user experience on any device.

Looking to Offer the Hottest New Services? We’ve Got it Covered

If you can imagine a new service, our application servers can help create and deliver it. From monetizing the transition to IP-based networks to offering a broad range of account options and applying tailored promotions, features, rate plans, and cross-product promotions to any type of customer account, we have a solution for you.

Converged Application Server. With full support for network convergence, our Converged Application Server is the platform of choice for monetizing real-time, interactive services.

Application Server based Charging and Policy Portfolio. To help you move faster to deliver personalized and interactive mobile voice and broadband data offerings that put your customers at the heart of the service, this solution portfolio provides solutions for 2G, 3G & 4G networks, including support for CDMA and GSM.

Start Reaping the Benefits

Use our application servers and related solutions if you want to:

• Increase revenues. Market offers ahead of the competition to capture a premium price and to create converged offers that drive up-sell and cross-sell across your service portfolio.
• Provide a premium customer experience. Give customers the personalized offers that fit their lifestyle and their unique preferences to keep them loyal and engaged.
• Speed time to market. Rapidly create profitable service offers that are more attractive to users and bring these offers to market ahead of the competition.
• Protect current investments. Evolve your charging infrastructure at your own pace, maintaining full control over the systems and processes driving your business today.
• Achieve differentiation. Use our optional on-site service creation team delivery model, so you can leverage our experience to create differentiated, profitable offers and interactive services for your markets.
• Manage operating costs. Consolidate charging across CDMA and GSM networks on our open, flexible and scalable Converged Application Server for major costs savings.
• Support your brand. Deliver interactive, personalized services that are always on, with availability approaching 99.9999% and no planned downtime, ever.

With a range of Application Server based Delivery Options available, including development environments, execution environments and managed services, our solutions can be delivered to meet your needs.