AAA Service Controller


Built around a powerful policy and profile engine, AAA Service Controller allows Service Providers to offer and control access to advanced and differentiated services across all access types and infrastructures. The most scalable and robust solution of its kind, AAA Service Controller is widely deployed and proven in Service Provider networks around the globe.

Authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) are business-critical functions within Service Provider networks. They're key to improving the subscriber experience and essential to supporting data services growth and new opportunities in fixed-mobile convergence. But not just any AAA will do. Service Providers need a flexible underlying access control infrastructure that provides carrier-grade performance and scalability, enabling them to take full advantage of these opportunities — across multiple networks simultaneously.

AAA Service Controller at a Glance

  • Single-platform solution with common policy and profile repository to control access to advanced services across multiple networks in fixed, mobile, and converged deployments.
  • Proven performance in live deployments ranging from 5,000 to more than 62 million provisioned users and transaction volumes of up to 10 billion per month.
  • Real-time session management to enable mobility, roaming, security, and usage tracking.
  • Prepaid and post-paid charging functions — eliminating the need for custom mediation solutions.
  • Support of multiple business models, allowing Service Providers to define and manage subscriber policies and profiles centrally while extending local control to business or retail customers.
  • Vendor and network neutral — a best-in-class solution.
  • Deployable in weeks, not months — improving time to market.

Immediate results — an installation case study. (click to enlarge)

Features and Benefits

  • Common profile and policy repository — Serves multiple networks, eliminating the need to reprovision subscribers as new networks are introduced, and accelerates time to market for new services.
  • Single-platform support for 3G, 4G, and wireline broadband networks — EV-DO Rev A, WiMAX, DSL.
  • Support of supplementary authentication protocols — EAP, for example.
  • Multi-protocol support — Dual-stack RADIUS and Diameter support enables migration to IMS.
  • Fully functional Oracle database — Extensive API support reduces internal development time and costs, and enables faster deployment.
  • Dynamic home agent — Ensures that calls are routed via the optimal home agent, depending on the subscriber's location, using policy-based allocation of IP addresses.
  • Support for a wide range of network vendor equipment and access standards — CDMA, GPRS, Wi-Fi, WiMAX, DSL, Cable, application platforms, OSS/BSS, etc.
  • Adherence to standards — IETF RADIUS industry standard and also supports the TIA 3GPP2 and TIA/IS-835-C standards, WiMAX Forum, and 3GPP TS29.061.

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