Telecommunications solutions for BSS, policy control and OSS
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Trends affecting your CSP business
As technologies and business models advance, communication service providers need to rethink how they do business. The cloud, 5G and private networks are leading to new opportunities for CSPs, as well as increased customer expectations and new business models, such as B2B2X. Learn how DigitalRoute can help you seize these opportunities while protecting your investments.
How CSPs must change to meet new opportunities
Support 5G monetization
Prepare to support 5G business ambitions, new business models, monetization options and composable business capabilities.
Modernize for new models
Simplify business processes and modernize traditional rating, charging, billing and other modules to support digital product portfolios, subscription and usage-based commercial models.
Move to the cloud
Change architecture to move to cloud-native revenue management and monetization modules, and migrate applications to private, and to some extent, even public cloud.
Challenges in the BSS domain
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Charging based on new metrics
CSPs are looking for monetization opportunities with 5G networks. 3GPP is driving a good portion of this, with the introduction of the network slicing concept and the expansion of the charging framework to include additional nodes such as the NEF and NWDAF. This gives CSPs the opportunity to sell tailored network slices to tenants, and also to charge for those on different metrics than what has been traditionally used, such as network performance, mobility, API exposure, and more.
Complex offerings using non-3GPP data sources
The charging stack is being consolidated into the converged charging system (CCS), but does combining the online and offline charging realms into a single component address all the needs of new business models? What about non-3GPP data sources, such as MEC applications? It seems likely that offerings will become more complex, especially those involving non-telco enterprises. Consolidating onto a single charging node may lead to data silo issues for the BSS applications behind it. Also, is it flexible enough to quickly adopt to whatever 5G monetization trends emerge?
Moving to cloud-native infrastructure
As the core network is being virtualized and moved to cloud-native infrastructure, the supporting systems around them must also go in the same direction in order to leverage OPEX improvements, increase agility, and decrease time-to-market for innovation.
DigitalRoute’s solution for charging and the BSS domain

Business model innovation
DigitalRoute enables you too comprehensively capture and rapidly process all the data needed to support an extensive range of current and future business models.
You can go beyond the known and traditional telco network data sources, to capture every possible drop of information that supports usage-based revenue management.
5G services monetization
We introduce organic flexibility into your systems, so you can adapt to the charging models that will come with network slicing.
Network data control
DigitalRoute supports any type of network generation and data source.
Our solution is based on microservices and cloud-native architecture.
Challenges in the policy control domain
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Policy decisions across network generations
From a functional standpoint, policy control has an enhanced role in 5G, with the ability to enforce policy definitions outside of the traditional quota-based domain. Being able to provide policy decisions across network generations is likely also a key component in managing CSP infrastructure in a smart way.
Closed-loop automation of policy enforcement
Another area of improvement for policy would be to finally provide closed-loop automation of policy enforcement through integration with BSS and OSS systems. In order actually to do this, an open, flexible and vendor–agnostic platform will be key.
Moving policy control to the cloud
Cloud-native applications are certainly part of the future of the policy control domain as well, aligning with the 5G service-based architecture. PCRF and PCF might even merge into a single application.
DigitalRoute in the policy control domain

Service consumption control
DigitalRoute supports rapid policy use case deployment by providing a flexible, user-friendly, policy design framework, designed on the principles of CI/CD.
5G services monetization
DigitalRoute ensures efficient usage of network resources through QoS and network slice control.
Network data control
DigitalRoute can integrate to any type of PCEF, BSS and OSS environment and offers closed-loop automation.
Our cloud-native solution is based on microservices, supporting both PCF and PCRF network functions.
Challenges in the OSS domain
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Understanding the health of virtualized networks
Understanding the health of the network and subscriber experience is certainly not getting easier when the network becomes virtualized, and instances can be spun up on the fly to support network slicing. OSS-type functions are also being brought into the monetization space to support new 5G monetization opportunities through the network data analytics function (NWDAF).
Interacting with a mix of physical and virtualized assets
Getting a complete overview of the network’s operational health will also require interacting with a mix of physical and virtualized assets across network generations, adding complexity.
Increased data volumes and cloud-native deployments
A given is that data volumes will radically increase, and more OSS data will come from real-time interfaces. Similar to the BSS and policy control domains, the shift from physical to cloud–native deployments is underway in the OSS domain as well.
DigitalRoute in the OSS domain

Tailored user experiences
DigitalRoute’s powerful integration capabilities enable you to connect to a large ecosystem of adjacent applications.
5G services monetization
Our solution enables analytics–based charging and analytics as a service.
Network data control
DigitalRoute enables self-sufficiency and centralized data collection in a multi-vendor landscape.
Our solution supports complex event processing, spanning multiple network generations
We enable you to scale to massive data volumes. Our solution’s sophisticated aggregation features also enable you to reduce the raw volume of data that is distributed for further processing.
Partner of choice in CSP and enterprise ecosystems
DigitalRoute has 350+ CSP customers, 100+ enterprise customers across all industries, and partners with hyperscalers including AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.

DISH selects DigitalRoute’s to enable 5G monetization
DISH has selected DigitalRoute to monetize new 5G services and complex business models.

DigitalRoute available on AWS to accelerate cloud migration for CSPs
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NEC Corporation, Netcracker and DigitalRoute partner to accelerate 5G monetization
As part of the strategic partnership, NEC will offer DigitalRoute’s software alongside its 5G mobile core network.
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Materials and resources for CSPs
DigitalRoute has 350+ CSP customers, 100+ enterprise customers across all industries, and partners with hyperscalers including AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.

5G guide
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