Open Marketplace for Telephony AppsBy the founders of Mobicents -
the Open Source Cloud Communications Platform
Convergence Help
● Convergence, certified TeleStax Partner, is a leading provider of open source networking solutions for core Telephony and Switching Applications in Pakistan and the Middle East.
● Deep Telecom Network Expertise
● Expanding in the API World with RestComm Expertise to provide greater value and faster time to market for Service Providers
● 24x7x365 Tier-1 and Tier-2 Support
uFone in numbers
● Successful Market Positioning
● Among largest GSM operator with 24 Million subscribers and growing in a competitive market of 133 Million+
● Needed Scaling Fast
● Keep cost under control while growing services
● Leveraged TeleStax Open Source Software and Convergence Expertise
● 3G trials launched in May 2014, looking at growing Mobile Services to offer more value to subscribers > 1 million subscribers already (MMS opporunities)
● Bulk SMS marketing campaigns in Urdu and English (~ 40 million SMS per day)
● Daily Balance Update (~10 million SMS per day)
● Interfaces○ Primarily IBM Java based middleware connects over
SMPP○ Custom Campaign Management by Convergence cBULK
[web2py < MariaDB > Kannel]
uFone Campaigns
Scaling SMSCs lead to services growth
Throughput roughly ~2000 SMS/s over 4 nodes
AWCC growth slide
● 3rd largest GSM operator with 3.5 Million subscribers and growing
● Keep cost under control while growing services
● Leverages TelScale USSD and SMSC for messaging
● POC phase on RestComm. Integration with TelScale USSD and SMSC for building new services
Key considerations
● Better capabilities, distinctive competencies and cost advantage, leading to value creation
● Low cost, fast deployment times, can be deployed on current IT virtualization cluster
● Stability at high throughput● Diameter / billing integration, if required
● Excellent personalized support!
And from an operators view ...
● Low deployment time frames and ease of deployment
● Less time to market for applications (VERY Important)
● OPEX wise its absolutely cheap too
● consolidation is another important bit ( you can consolidate USSD & SMSC ) on one single hardware
● TeleStax Mobicents is very well targeted for M(V)NOs
RestComm Call center
300-400 concurrent agentsSIP & SS7 support (also)DB connectivity (SQL & NoSQL ?)Campaign management with Auto dialer for Outbound, CDR generation, Agent Consolescalable to 800 agents, Codecs supported, tablet integration, integrated SMPP client, idea is to replace existing Cisco/Asterisk solutions
Inflection Point for SPs
● Line, WhatsApp, Viber, etc. made Messaging and Voice a FREE commodity
● Telco price war and race to the bottom across the industry across the world
● The world is moving to non-metered IP Communications
● Growing costs for data services as more content is consumed
● Getting a 3G license meant being vulnerable to OTTs, how to address that ?
The Opportunity● Legacy telecom infrastructure will remain a key asset for a long time● Moving from traditional vendors to FOSS for lower cost and more flexible
core network components
● Shift to IP communications is accelerating● Real Time Communications is still out of reach for most Web and Mobile
App developers. Enable them to build Services !
The Solution - RestComm
RestComm is a Real Time Communications Platform
for Web and Mobile Developers to build and scale Voice, Video,
and Messaging Apps for WebRTC, SIP and PSTN networks.
Mobile SDKs
Finally a Visual tool for “Copy and Paste” App Developers
Powered by the TeleStax Communications Platform based on Mobicents
RestComm allows Operators and Service Providers to expose
their core assets - either IMS or Legacy SS7 - through simple
APIs that are TwilioTM compatible.
Not limited to Communications : including IoT now
source:Henning Schulzrinne, CTO FCC
Moving up the Value Chain
● Mobile phones used to be perceived as plain vanilla call devices... Apple changed that
● Core Telecom Services are still stone age.
● Meet RestComm App Store*!
*Patent Pending USPTO #62/017,054
Onboarding Developers & Partners now !
Big Data servicing interpersonal communication
App Store revenue sharing
Business Model Example
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http://www.telestax.com
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