Service delivery in mobile networks and in a deregulated fixed line world

The telecoms sector is a major adopter of XML and Web Services technologies. The provisioning of new services to customers is the lifeblood of telecoms organizations, especially in mobile telecoms where new business models are evolving.

Service Delivery Platforms (SDPs) are used by mobile telecoms operators to enable content providers to connect into their systems. This allows consumers to subscribe to sports and news services, to purchase ringtones, and to exchange mobile multimedia messages. XML is at the heart of the Service Delivery Platform. Vordel's products manage and control this XML traffic, accelerating it through hardware.

Government regulations force incumbent telecoms operators to allow new Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLECs) to sell services into their customers. This "unbundling the local loop" also has knock on effect of requiring number portability across providers. Integration between the incumbent telecom providers and the CLECs uses XML. Vordel's products manage this XML traffic.

Vordel Solution
Vordel's products accelerate, manage and protect the XML used by telecoms companies. Vordel applies policies to the XML traffic, without sacrificing latency. At the perimeter, Vordel's XML firewalls manage XML traffic entering and exiting the network. Inside the network, Vordel's gateways do the heavy lifting to offload the key XML processing functions from application servers and enforce runtime governance of all SOA policies. Additionally Vordel monitors XML traffic and reports on critical Web Service metrics.

By offloading these key functions to dedicated products and exposing Web Services, overall latency is lessened and throughput is increased throughout the network.