PortaOne develops mature, and carrier-grade B/OSS & Softswitch solutions for Service providers to efficiently implement, manage and provision modern telecommunications networks.
Our platform enables our customers to offer a large variety of Converged Data & Voice applications such as hosted Centrex, residential VoIP telephony, Internet Access billing (Double/Triple-play), WiFi/WiMAX/LTE Access billing and provisioning, Wholesale, Unified Messaging, Calling Cards and many more.
2. PortaOne: Basic Facts
● Founded in 1997 as
a project team within Telenor
● Incorporated in 2000 in
Vancouver, Canada
● Privately owned
● Employees: 250+
○ over 50% in technical support
○ 1/3 in software design and
development, QA and testing
● Product focus:
○ integrated converged B/OSS
○ C4/C5 softswitch solutions
● Global customer focus:
○ national carriers and
telcos of tier 2/3
○ MVNO/MVNE
○ VoIP, ISPs, WiFi, WiMAX, LTE
service providers
4. Global Customer Success – I
Over the last 18 years
in business, PortaOne
have issued around
1,500 licenses and
actively serves well
over 400 installations
in 85 countries on five
continents
● 1/3 of our customers are in Europe
(over a dozen in both UK and
Netherlands)
● 1/3 - in North America (both Canada
and the US – 25% of all customers)
● 1/4 - in Asia-Pacific (including
Australia, Singapore, Indonesia
Malaysia, Taiwan, etc.)
● the rest are in Africa (10+ different
countries, including ~20 in South
Africa), Middle East, and Latin America
6. What’s so unique about PortaOne?
Open
Flexibility
PortaOne platform easily fits into an
existing network, business process,
and integration with applications.
This is done through:
● open architecture
● APIs, and
● source code
Fast Time-to-Market
for New Features
Steady platform improvement and
extremely short feature wait-time.
With over 250 engineers on staff, we
utilize agile development cycle and
deliver maintenance release every
two months.
7. What’s so unique about PortaOne?
Lifelong License with
No Artificial Limitations
Unlimited license in terms of subscribers
or calls or features or modules.
Customers receive all available
functionality and all new features are
provided to supported customers as a
part of regular system updates without
extra fees.
Robust and
Professionally Supported
Carrier-grade high-availability with all
business critical components put in a
cluster of physical servers
complemented by the best in industry
24/7/365 technical support and
maintenance program.
8. PortaBilling Oracularius
Carrier-grade B/OSS deployed by both national
and tier 2 carriers, for example:
● Harris CapRock in TX, USA
● Ironton in PA, USA
● Apollophone in NY, USA
● Goldline in ON, Canada
● Bezeq in Israel
● MTT in Russia
● Datora & VoxBras in Brazil
● LTEx in France & UK
● Telecom Malaysia (PacketOne) in Malaysia
● Swift Telecom in Nigeria
● iBurst & Vox Telecom in South Africa
Redundant, scalable, converged billing, invoicing,
rating, customer management platform designed
for high availability of services
10. PortaSwitch – II
Various business models and scenarios can be run
on a single platform:
● Hosted IP PBX for enterprise customers
● IP Centrex for business communication
● SIP trunking for SMB & call centers
● Mobile apps and dialers for smartphones
● Hosted platform for SaaS customers
● MVNO & MVNE
● Data over LTE & VoLTE
● VoIP wholesale termination and LCR
● Calling cards: PIN-less and printed
● Residential prepaid and postpaid
● IPTV: full triple play with VoD & pay-per-view
● ISP: broadband, WiMAX, and WiFi
● SMS services billing & routing
● DID management & on-demand provisioning
11. PortaSwitch Procinctus
A fully redundant configuration of PortaSwitch designed
for high availability and maximal performance:
● DB redundancy: main and replica databases on
dedicated servers
● Every business critical component forms a cluster for
high availability
● Instant failover in case of hardware failure or
malfunction
● Total of eleven servers within a single installation
● Optional expansion to geographic redundancy with a
secondary site
● Able to support up to 15,000 cc (concurrent calls)
● Expected customer base of over 150,000 end users
13. PortaSwitch Site Redundancy Option
Site redundancy allows to:
● protect against hosting facility outages
● provide service to multiple geographic regions when network connectivity between them is lost
● perform upgrades to new software versions with zero downtime
16. Selected Examples of C5 Functionality
● Attended call transfer
● Anonymous call reject
● Automatic Line/Direct Connect
● Auto Attendant / Auto Attendant with
Night-mode / Time-based BLF
● Blind Call transfer
● Call forward on busy / on not answer
/ to multiple simultaneous
extensions / to SIP
● URI
● Call Queues
● Call Parking / Call pickup
● Call Barring
● Call Directory
● Call return (last dialled number)
● Call waiting
● Caller ID
● Caller ID on call waiting
● Call Recording by default and on
demand
● Call hold
● Conference Rooms
● Customer Dialling
● Rules / Translation
● Rules CLIP/CLIR (Calling line
identity & presentation /
restriction)
● CNIP/CNIR (Calling name
identity & presentation /
restriction)
● Caller Identity & Privacy
protection
● Fax-to-Email
● First login greeting
● Favourite numbers
● Group pickup
● Hunt Groups
● Legal Intercept
● Message waiting audible
● Message waiting visual
● Multiple call appearances
● Music on hold
● Paging/Intercom dialling
● Presence
● Selective call acceptance / forward / reject
● SIP
● TAPI
● Secure Calling (SRTP)
● Speed dial
● Station message detail recording (SMDR)
● Speech/Voice to Text (via plugin)
● Three-way conference / Three-way calling
● Toll restriction
● Virtual extensions
● VoiceVPN
● VoiceVPN distinctive ring
● Voice On-net
● Voicemail / Voicemail-to-Email
● And much more!
17. PortaSwitch for MVNO/MVNE & LTE/VoLTE
PortaSwitch is deployed by multiple customers in Europe, Africa, US, and Latin America
MVNO & LTE network
billing and
provisioning core for:
● Account
management
● Call data retrieval
● CDR processing
18. PortaSwitch Licensing Policy
Unlimited perpetual license
● Does not depend on number of calls, ports, users, etc.
● All modules and features included by default
● Covers a private cloud installation of physical servers
● Lifelong: has no time limit
Includes
● Oracle Linux OS
● MySQL or Oracle RAC DB
● Source code
● Post-installation services
● Customized onsite training
● Complimentary PortaCare subscription
PortaCare – maintenance and
support subscription program
● 24/7 technical support
● 24/7 remote system monitoring
● All maintenance releases with
new features and updates
19. Agile Development Cycle
Structure
● Maintenance Releases
● Builds
Types of Releases
● Leap Forward
● Long Life
Functionality Selection
● Feature requests
● Assessment
● Commitment
Agile Development Cycle
● 2 weeks coding
● 1 week verification and QA
● 1 week stability testing
● 1 week release production