CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies Inc.’s Integrated Network Group introduced its Intelligis Services Platform, the first component of the company’s new AIN/WIN platform architecture product.
The IntelligisSP platform essentially extends the same services now common in traditionally priced airtime plans to prepaid customers.
“Instead of purchasing a separate voice mail system and a separate prepaid system-and on top of that, being unable to integrate these two disparate systems-we now offer our customers a single platform that runs all of the enhanced services available on our [Modular Voice Processing] system, our Wireless Prepaid product and our most popular enhanced services on a prepaid basis,” explained Thomas Allen, vice president and general manager of the group’s Boston operations.
The platform was designed to allow network operators a modular and scalable solution to quickly deploy next-generation enhanced services. As such, IntelligisSP provides for voice-activated services, e-mail messaging and virtual telephony. It also includes a prepaid database module that is integrated with the enhanced services platform, called openMEDIA Wireless Prepaid 4.0.
The prepaid database allows carriers to offer several types of enhanced services on a prepaid basis, such as caller ID and call waiting. Also, openMEDIA allows carriers to charge access fees against a subscriber’s prepaid account at predetermined times to gain revenue, and allows subscribers to change rate plans and keep their existing mobile number. Inbound calls can be routed to external voice mail systems a user’s phone is busy or out of service, and the first segment of incoming calls is free.
“As the line blurs between prepaid and postpaid feature sets, the latest version of our wireless prepaid product quickens the bridging of this feature set gap for prepaid wireless products,” said Dan Case, president and general manager of Glenayre’s Integrated Network Group.
