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ARRIS FMC products allow operators to add innovative and compelling convergence features to their landline and mobile voice offerings, generating increased service uptake, revenue and subscriber loyalty.
The ARRIS Mobility Application Server (MAS) provides a complete FMC solution for today's non-IMS based cable architectures. The MAS interfaces to the existing softswitch and provides all the functions required to implement full ‘tightly-coupled’ SS7-attached FMC with CDMA or GSM networks. Alternatively, the MAS supports "loosely coupled" models, in which cellular operator participation is not required to provide a comprehensive package of "over-the top" convergence services. ARRIS FMC Product Specs
ARRIS Fixed/Mobile Convergence solutions allows operators to add innovative and compelling features to their landline and voice offerings, generating increased service uptake, revenue and subscriber loyalty.
The core FMC application allows subscribers to roam and handover seamlessly, mid-call, between the cellular network – whether GSM or CDMA – and their home WiFi network, using SIP VoIP and dual-mode handsets.
The ARRIS FMC solutions include both hardware and software, and provide all the functions required to implement full ‘tightly-coupled’ SS7-attached FMC – including Gateway MSC, subscriber location register, and gateway functions. Deployable in today’s pre-IMS/Packetcable 2.0 networks, ARRIS FMC migrates seamlessly to a full IMS & Packetcable 2.0-compliant solution with just a software upgrade.
ARRIS Fixed/Mobile Convergence is an essential element in cable operators’ strategies to differentiate their mobile/cellular service offerings.
- ARRIS FMC offers innovative and compelling convergence features that drive increased service up-take and revenue generation, and allow cable operators to compete on grounds other than price, in ways that cellular-only operators aren’t easily able to replicate.
- ARRIS FMC is a first step in allowing operators to move from a strategy of bundling services (as with the “triple-play”) to one of “blending” services – delivering applications that work seamlessly over fixed and mobile networks, in ways that offer value to the customer and allow the operator to charge a premium instead of discounting. For the operator, this means increased ARPU and margins.
- Finally, FMC offers the ability for operators to off-load in-home cell minutes to their landline network, with the result that the service margins can be significantly improved. Typically, studies report that as much as 36% of cellular minutes are originated or terminated in the home.
ARRIS offers two FMC solutions: the VCC (Voice Continuity Control) server provides FMC for IMS and Packetcable 2.0 network architectures. And the Mobility Application Server (MAS) provides FMC for today’s non-IMS-based architectures.
Operators who deploy the pre-IMS MAS can migrate to the IMS-compliant VCC with a simple software upgrade when they roll out Packetcable 2.0 in their networks, avoiding service disruption and stranded capital.
Both products are complete FMC solutions, comprising both hardware and software elements, that are genuinely carrier-grade and with proven scaleability – with live field deployments (in other applications) carrying millions of subscribers. And both come with comprehensive NMS/OSS, billing and troubleshooting support, again with proven scaleability and carrier-grade credentials
As the business and commercial activities around implementing a quad-play offering get under way, ARRIS FMC solutions can provide operators with the compelling and attractive ‘pre-quad-play’ services that help to differentiate their landline offering, drive subscriber growth and ARPU uplift, and provide a technology and marketing basis from which to ensure a rapid market take-off for true FMC when the cellular offering is finally available.
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