Advanced LCR 26 April

Advanced LCR (Least Cost Router)
With SIP Proxy Server
It’s all about
Reducing Cost!!!


WHY ADVANCED LCR (Least Cost Routing)

Advanced LCR is a product by
Advanced Communications; the
same parent company of
AdvancedVoIP.com, a widely
used billing system by VoIP
providers.

The product comes from years
of insight into the
telecommunications and
specially VoIP market place and
real needs of VoIP operators to
do least cost routing in a real
world environment.

NEXT STEPS
Head Office
8721 Santa Monica Boulevard,
252 Los Angeles
CA, 90069‐4507 USA
Asia Office
299, St 67, F‐11/1
Islamabad – 44000
Pakistan
Sales Department
Tel: +1 213 341 9690
Fax: +1 213 330 0292
E‐mail: sales@advancedvoip.com
URL: www.advancedvoip.com
© AVPL 2008. All Rights Reserved.

Advanced LCR
Advanced LCR provides next generation routing optimization solution that ensures service
providers to automate and manage their routing processes by providing real time business
intelligence on costs, profit margins, network issues etc.

Figure 01: Standalone LCR Model

Advanced LCR’s routing method is comprehensive enough to ensure following factors:
¾ LCR data is loaded and stored in RAM i.e. RAM resident that ensures quick access of
information.
¾ Financial matters in vendor agreements, complicated rate sheets, volume commitments and
discounts.
¾ Network capabilities and constraints like near real‐time measurements of network traffic
volume, QoS and capacity.
¾ User defined business rules that improves quality and other standards for every switch,
route class and includes override management.

Advanced LCR provides a user friendly interface that ensures definition of routing
parameters. It enables routing collaboration and provisioning in the delivery of routing
scheme.

Figure 02: Working of LCR Model

It allows carriers to modify rates/routes any time, for any terminator, without restarting the
application. The solution supports the conventional voice switches and IP softswitches as
well. Hence, it allows service providers to change routing schemes and rates in no minutes.

Moreover, Advanced LCR is absolutely functional with SIP Proxy Server as the following
figure shows:


Figure 03: LCR with SIP Proxy Server

Advanced LCR not only searches for the best optimum route for call delivery in terms of
cost but it also maintains the overall call quality. It precisely monitors the ASR
(Answer/Seizure Ratio) of all the available routes and eliminates the route having minimum
ratio from the final list of multiple routes.

Both the scenarios – working of LCR in terms of Cost and Quality are best illustrated in the
figures shown below:


Figure 04: Working of LCR on QoS basis


Figure 05: Static Routing (Working of LCR on Least Cost Basis)

Also, it is comprehensive enough to completely manage distinct rates offered by different
terminators for different time slots in a day. Some terminators offer the same rate for the
entire day while some offer peak/off‐peak rates separately. Thus, Advanced LCR
proficiently handles different time rates for the same day.


Figure 06: Working of LCR on the basis of time

Business Benefits
¾ Reduces costs and increases profit margins
¾ Implements global routing strategies in near real time
¾ Reacts a bit faster to financial risks and changing network conditions

Disadvantages of not using LCR
¾ Inability to handle a large number of terminators
¾ Tedious updating of static routing tables.
¾ Frequent errors and out of synchronization of static tables
¾ Difficult to reroute failed calls in real time while the call is being setup
¾ Difficult to change routes when a route fails
¾ Difficult to change routes when credit expires with any terminator
¾ Difficult to stop traffic over flow to limited capacity routes.

Therefore without a LCR, telcos usually do one of two things.

¾ Keep a single account with an A – Z terminator and send all traffic to him.
¾ Keep account with few terminators and manually manage the traffic routing.

It is a known fact that without LCR, there is almost a 5% to 30% extra cost in calls delivery
depending on technology the telecom uses. With telecom margins shrinking worldwide,
this saving of 5% to 30% can translate into a 50% to 100% increase in the profit margin.


TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Session Routing
• Port Count
• Precedence/accessibility of destination GW
• RADIUS API for interaction with add‐on routing systems
• Load Balancing
• Failover among gateways
• Between signaling servers distributed configuration (for better fault‐tolerance)
Interoperability
• Support for SIP dialects
• Direct IP connectivity with SIP based IP PBX
Network Security
• Call Admission Control (max calls on an ingress, max calls on egress, total max calls per
direction/route)
• Call authentication by IP address based on data from internal configurations
Call Statistics and Analysis
• Real time monitoring of ASR, QoS, ACD, disconnect codes and more
• Call statistics monitoring by destination/GW
• CDR‐based call analysis
• CDR in plain text format convenient for analysis and preliminary debugging
• CDR filtering by any call parameter
Billing and Accounting
• Single point for CDR collection
• 38 fields for exhaustive call analysis and preliminary debugging (Call ID, Disconnect Codes,
Connect Time, Elapsed Time and more)
• All relevant call details for complex billing at end‐users
• Cisco VSA compliant
• Real‐time and postpaid billing

Interface to LCR Client
• SIP based
• RADIUS based
Accounting
• RADIUS based
• File based
• Direct Database
• SIP v 2.0
Operating Systems
• RedHat Linux 7.3, 9.0
• Fedora
• SUSE
Manageability
• Web based GUI for remote monitoring and control
• Configuration files in plain text format
• Web monitor (web based utility for remote system monitoring)
• Integrated with AdvancedVoIP billing
• Can be interfaced with any other billing system
• Can be interfaced with any softswitch through Radius or SIP
Scalability
• Scalable from 30 up to 5000 concurrent calls
• Upgradeable within less than 5 minutes
• 5,000 concurrent calls capacity scalable to 100,000 concurrent calls.
• Can take up to 1,000,000 BHCA in a cluster configuration.
Redundant
• Redundant
• Fault tolerant
• High Availability
• Scalable
• Embedded watch‐dog timer

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