CASE STUDY
OpenProvider Enabled Fixed-Mobile Convergence Service for Magenta Telekom
In 2015. Magenta Telekom was introducing new services to their customers through the Fixed-mobile Convergence project. They sought a vendor who would build and deploy the FMC AAA solution in a cost-efficient and future-proof way. That is how collaboration with Logate was established, with main advantages being Logate’s in-depth telco expertise and highly agile and flexible approach to the client’s needs.
Key Benefits:
- Reduction of OPEX and more efficient daily operations
- OpenProvider AAA became an integral part of Magenta Telekom’s network infrastructure
- Infrastructure-agnostic AAA
- Scalable AAA with linear performance increase for any subscriber numbers
- Stable and flexible foundation for building innovative services (e.g. VoWiFi)
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Sergey Shmygin
Delivery Manager
Magenta Telekom Austria
“We are very satisfied and happy to have Logate as our partner.
During our cooperation Logate has developed a good understanding of our needs and found a way to successfully integrate their OpenProvider solution during FMC (Fixed-Mobile Convergence) project without causing any discontinuities or issues on our side.”
Delivery Manager
Magenta Telekom Austria
OpenProvider policy platform selected among competition of well-established market players
Magenta Telekom, as one of the leaders in the telco world in Austria has sought a vendor to replace their legacy AAA solution and introduce new services, starting from the Fixed-Mobile Convergence project. At the time, Logate was developing the AAA platform on Montenegrin and Serbian markets, and got into the tendering procedure with world-known technology vendors in the field.
Logate was entrusted with the project due to high flexibility, deep domain expertise and readiness to expand and adapt the existing solution to meet the client’s needs. The small and agile team became external consultants enabling the functioning of one of the core network components of the telekom.
FMC project requirements
Magenta Telekom had the following requirements for the solution:
- Solution should be built to support the hybrid internet access for users on a packet level, using DSL and LTE combined
- Fully compatible and transferable to future network concepts and technologies
- Supports full 3GPP set of standards
- Supports the two-site geo-redundancy concept
- Supports virtualization requirements
- With an SLA that covers full maintenance and support services
OpenProvider AAA for Magenta Telekom - The solution
Logate deployed its OpenProvider AAA platform that enhanced the client’s system by providing:
- Delivery in the virtual environment
- Real-time control and management over subscriber network access
- Easy service building supported by the low code scripting language, OpenFunction
- Numerous options for handling charging and rating
- Personalized experience through tiered-service bundles
- High availability and scalability - fully redundant deployment with stateful processing across all nodes
- Web-based administration interface used for both service configuration and monitoring
- Integration with OSS/ BSS systems
Collaboration benefits and results
Collaboration benefits and results The successful realization of AAA project with Magenta Telekom resulted in:
- Reduction of OPEX and more efficient daily operations
- High-performing AAA that enabled the completion of the FMC project
- OpenProvider AAA became an integral part of the client’s network infrastructure
- Infrastructure-agnostic AAA adapted easily with other system components
- Scalable AAA with linear performance increase for any subscriber numbers or new market trends
- Stable and flexible foundation for building innovative services (e.g. VoWiFi)
- Logate engineers becoming 24x7 remote support team
CASE STUDY
Crnogorski Telekom (Deutsche Telekom Group) - AAA supporting more than 100 services for the biggest Montenegrin telecom
99%
LTE coverage
66% +
fixed-line share
32% +
mobile-line share
44% +
broadband internet share
36% +
of total broadband users
Crnogorski Telekom (Montenegrin Telekom) is the leading telecommunications operator based in Podgorica, Montenegro and it is a part of Deutsche Telekom group. It is the largest telecommunications company in Montenegro and provides fixed-line, mobile, IPTV, internet, ICT and cloud services.
Crnogorski Telekom is the leading fixed-line operator in Montenegro, the first internet provider in the country and is getting rapidly established as the leading provider of mobile services, with LTE coverage of 99%.
OpenProvider AAA key benefits for Crnogorski Telekom:
- IP Policy, charging control and subscriber data management for Broadband, Mobile and WiFi users
- 100+ services including Dial-up, ADSL, VDSL, Optics and WiFi services for over 250,000 subscribers
- Captive portal for WiFi authorization and Captive services
- 3GPP AAA for 3G/4G mobile users on public and private APNs
- Hybrid access (fixed and mobile convergence) project
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“We’ve been using Logate OpenProvider for the past nine years and we are satisfied with its stability. We have a great cooperation with Logate regarding improvement and maintenance of the solution.”
Radovan Vukotić
Manager for Services and Platforms
Crnogorski Telekom
“We’ve been using Logate OpenProvider for the past nine years and we are satisfied with its stability. We have a great cooperation with Logate regarding improvement and maintenance of the solution.”
Radovan Vukotić
Manager for Services and Platforms
Crnogorski Telekom
The collaboration history and challenge - Crnogorski Telekom and Logate
Crnogorski Telekom is the company where Logate initially developed its OpenProvider AAA platform, in 1998, in C language, to serve the needs of the dial-up and ADSL services at that
time. As the services evolved so has the platform. In 2009. its internal architecture was completely changed with the introduction of Service Management Engine (SME) and Open Function, which simplified product configuration and runtime modification. In 2009. OpenProvider was already protocol and vendor agnostic. From the start, the platform was also designed to run in a virtual environment.
In 2012. the system was further upgraded by replacing the underlying RADIUS server with
FreeRADIUS server for protocol related functions and OpenProvider Policing engine for implementing business and policy rules, subscriber and session management. In this version
OpenProvider includes EAP with all subtypes integrated. This version also included Transparent Auto Login (TAL) functionality and extended RADIUS Proxy policing with Forwarding Authorization, Accounting, CoA and PoD packets.
Finally, the product was upgraded once more as vAAA version (VNF) that was developed in
accordance with ISG NFV ETSI standards and 3GPP standards. Designed to be deployed on
Telco Cloud environment (virtualized infrastructure) where TOSCA MANO orchestrator is
present. It was released in 2017 and maintained and upgraded since.
OpenProvider and IP services in Crnogorski Telekom
Since the early days of Crnogorski Telekom in Montenegro, Logate developed OpenProvider AAA from scratch to meet the developing needs of the Montenegrin telecommunications market. Through more than 10 years of serving Crnogorski Telekom, Logate was able to deliver various complete solutions that included:
- IP Policy, charging control and subscriber data management for Broadband, Mobile and WiFi users.
- 100+ services including Dial-up, ADSL, VDSL, Optics and WiFi services for over 250,000 subscribers
- Captive portal for WiFi authorization and Captive services
- 3GPP AAA for 3G/4G mobile users on public and private APNs
- Hybrid access (fixed and mobile convergence) project
Logate is still the main partner and vendor to Crnogorski Telekom in the domain of mainte nance and improvements of the AAA infrastructure, helping the client to constantly bring innovative services to the market (e.g. VoWiFi).
Team capabilities
- Solution design
- Project management
- System integration
- Data migration
- Training and education
- 24x7 remote support
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