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Service-Aware Policy Controller

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Based on the 3GPP Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) and Policy Control Function (PCF), the Ericsson Service-Aware Policy Controller (SAPC) supports the increase of revenue through personalized services and the optimized utilization of network resources.
 
SAPC is responsible for the policy control and charging rules that define the services and applications supported in mobile , fixed, and converged networks. Key to securing network behavior when users access data services, SAPC performs a business-critical role in the  monetization and differentiation ofservice  provider mobile and converged broadband commercial packages.
OUR KEY BENEFITS

Personalized service offering

Personalized service offerings, allowing service providers to easily launch creative offers based on a wide set of parameters (such as user profile, time of day, location, service type, charging characteristics, and so on) to increase service usage and establish stronger customer relationships as a result of better usability.

Outstanding flexibility and usability

Outstanding flexibility and usability, leveraging SAPC as the most flexible engine on the market to benefit from a high level of programmability and a range of rules. (The use of policies per subscriber or subscriber groups, for example, allows service providers to easily customize their service access rules to match ever-changing market requirements)

Top UX-designed for Policies

Top UX-designed for Policies, SAPC and CCPC with Ericsson Policy Studio provide awesome user experience and are extended to support both PCRF and PCF. It allows short time to market and OPEX decrease for the launch of new use cases. To have an intuitive and understandable GUI guarantees the best user experience for service agility in the policy area, valid for marketing and engineering teams.

Efficient and flexible operations

Centralized policy management functions help reduceCAPEX and OPEX. With the SAPC you are able to set policies on a per-user or per-user-group basis, giving them the flexibility to customize service access rules to match changing market requirements.

The SAPC is designed to work as a Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) in IMS networks and in the Evolved Packet Core (EPC) network architecture according to SAE.