Brainroots draws upon over 50 years of combined
experience in the TBSS domain with core competencies in the
vertical segments of mediation, retail billing, CRM, interconnect
billing, order management and revenue assurance.
The product development and implementation
team comprises people with varied experience in the telecom
domain including mobile, fixed line, ISP, broadband, VoIP, data
centers, CATV and gaming. The knowledge pool has been further
enriched by the Companys integrated team structure for product
development and consulting services.
Further, the team has been exposed to a variety
of technologies, platforms and applications in the TBSS domain
as set out below.
Implementations on various platforms
Brainroots can implement solutions on any type
of existing platform of the CSP, given its extensive experience
in the J2EE architecture. Capabilities in the J2EE framework
include deep experience in Struts, EJBs and XML. The Company
has extensive experience in live deployments on Sun Solaris,
Linux RedHat and various databases like Oracle, MySQL, DB2 and
Postgres. Other areas of expertise include IBM Tivoli, Open
LDAP, Netscape SuiteSpot, C/C++ and PERL.
Integration of legacy systems through
appropriate middleware products
Brainroots can integrate the disparate legacy
systems of the CSPs through the use of appropriate middleware
products. The Company has live implementation experience in
the following:
MQSeries This was the middleware implemented
for a fixed line broadband provider in Philippines. The EAI
platform was used in making their disparate systems talk to
each other using XML tags.
Vitria BusinessWare This was the middleware
of choice for a large Japanese operator. This was used primarily
as an order management and provisioning engine for interfacing
with a downstream BSS system.
Fiorano Tifosi Brainroots is an implementation
partner for Fiorano, a market leader in the Java Messaging Bus
space. As a part of the partnership, Brainroots is promoting
its EAI product Tifosi.
Deployment on various Application
Servers
Brainroots can deploy its own as well as third
party solutions on various application servers. The Company
has live experience with a number of Java Application Servers
as stated below.
WebSphere UtraBill has been successfully
deployed and benchmark tested on Websphere. A number of team
members have experience on deploying and tuning applications
on Websphere. Currently, there is 1 live deployment on Websphere.
Pramati UltraBill has also been deployed
on Pramati Servers, and tuned to optimally utilise hardware
resources to deliver high performance and stability. Currently,
there are 2 live deployments on Pramati.
Tomcat Brainroots has extensively worked
with Tomcat in the past, both on own products and third party
solutions. Tomcat was deployed by a large carrier in Mumbai
for its Graphical User Interfaces and Brainroots successfully
executed the stability and performance tuning of Tomcat to handle
large loads of online customer requests.
Interface development
Brainroots can develop interfaces between disparate systems
including real-time interface with IN platform and BSS, interface
with Payment Gateways, and interface with the legacy accounts
receivable systems.
Interface with Vitria For a Japanese client,
Brainroots built a real-time interface between Vitria and the
downstream BSS for exchanging provisioning information.
Interface with credit card Payment Gateways
Brainroots has built interfaces with a number of Payment Gateways
for real-time customer care transaction.
Interface with SMS-C Brainroots has implemented
a real-time interface between the SMS-C and BSS for a large
provider in Australia. This was done to enable pre-paid and
real-time SMS billing.
Interface with Ericsson IN platform and Ericsson MMSC
A leading operator in New Zealand required real-time
billing of pre-paid MMS. For this, a solution was deployed for
real-time rating from the Ericsson MMSC to the BSS. The rated
events were exported in real-time from the BSS to the IN platform
which would be able to deduct pre-paid balances in real-time.
