Boost Profitability and Control with an End-to-End Interconnect Trading and Routing

The speed and complexity of today's wholesale market demands that operations are streamlined and automated. Disconnected, manual applications are no longer viable when rates and best routes can change hourly.

CSG Route provides operational control of traffic trading and routing including full support for origin-based Rates (A number) along with automated network provisioning of commercial routing orders, from a single integrated system.

Buying is one of the most complicated and time-consuming processes in the international wholesale business. Ever-changing supplier rates and the varieties of origin and destination dial code definitions in the telecoms environment demand close attention and precise control.

The ability to react quickly to an attractive supplier offer is vital. CSG Route automatically processes and validates the price lists, rates, area codes (for both Origins and Destinations) and quality indicators offered by other carriers.

CSG Route recognizes and stores each supplier's numbering plan and automatically maps the origins and destinations, enabling it to rank suppliers and instantly identify break-out opportunities.

CSG Route's configurable algorithms let you define different routing strategies based on margins, rates, quality, capacity, volume commitments, traffic patterns and agreement fulfilment strategy. Variable time-of-day routings are supported, and CSG Route gives you constant access to the latest quality and capacity data.

The system automatically transforms routing decisions into command files provisioned against the network. This reduces the number of manual and error-prone tasks typically associated with route changes, and improves your ability to take advantage of profitable routing opportunities as soon as they become available. Advanced provisioning features include origin, destination, customer unique routings, and composite products.

CSG Route makes tariff-setting quick and easy, automatically calculating multiple cost definitions based on actual or future routing structures and price lists with customer-specific layouts and supporting on-the-fly rate negotiations.

A set of reports with drill-down functionality for traffic, revenue, cost, and margins is available. CSG Route reports on actual cost savings, loss and profitability, giving you a complete view of business performance.

Carriers can define their specific product portfolio and business models, and create preferred options, while CSG Route automatically identifies the most profitable breakout opportunities and purchase options. Personalized business alerts enable immediate action.

Standard business performance reports include revenue, product performance, profitability, minute margin, termination cost, traffic, quality, network utilization and more.

With continually increasing pressure on voice margins and ever more competition, carriers need to be able to create and maintain innovative and revenue generating deals between each other that are more sophisticated than traditional interconnect agreements.

Often these deals are multi-dimensional and can specify parameters and targets for individual types of traffic that need to be tracked and fulfilled. As the nature of deals between carriers becomes more complex and dynamic, effective deal management is essential.

CSG Route Deal Manager allows carriers to increase its revenue and margins through business intelligence to negotiate the optimal deals and closely monitor the agreements fulfilments and profit margins, in order to when needed make adjustments.