Cloud-native network infrastructure provider Mavenir has announced the successful completion and go-live of its converged charging system (CCS) transformation for SETAR, the primary full-service telecoms provider on the Caribbean island country of Aruba.
The cloud-native multi-tenant CCS is supporting operations for SETAR in Aruba and enabling it to provide a ‘charging as a service’ solution for mobile operator KLA in the neighbouring island of Bonaire.
Powered by Mavenir’s Digital Enablement (MDE) solution, the centralised system replaces SETAR’s legacy, island-specific charging infrastructure with a unified, multi-tenancy system. The open and interoperable system, based on fully containerised architecture, is hosted in Aruba and, Mavenir says, generates significant capex and opex savings by streamlining and simplifying real-time charging and billing operations.
The service provider is also set to benefit from substantially reduced hardware and maintenance overheads, with changes synchronised automatically for both islands’ systems.
The new charging system is now delivering real-time online and offline charging capabilities for SETAR’s complete portfolio of prepaid and post-paid offerings across Aruba and Bonaire through a single, converged system.
Mavenir says this upgrade enables the company to effortlessly provide digital product suites to its subscribers and ensures next-generation mobile network readiness.
This modernisation and transformation programme was achieved by Mavenir using fast and agile continuous deployment methods, with the Mavenir team standardising and optimising SETAR’s existing datasets and delivering software to its labs on schedule for comprehensive testing.
This allowed the operator to seamlessly migrate away from the previous prepaid charging system and launch with confidence in the release productivity and performance, while helping to ensure business continuity. The system is deployed in an active-active, geo-redundant configuration across two data centres, ensuring high availability, fault tolerance and seamless failover capabilities.
As for the effect on consumers, Roland Croes, CEO of SETAR explains: “This pivotal upgrade to converged charging across our prepaid and post-paid services now allows us to instantly provision innovative and personalised digital services to our island community customers in Aruba and Bonaire.”
Mavenir is a long-term technology partner to SETAR, having already augmented its network capabilities with messaging infrastructure, advanced messaging security and routing solutions.
The service provider is now equipped to leverage Mavenir’s open APIs within the MDE platform, allowing it to seamlessly add new products and services that are auto-provisioned into the new charging system with full transparency and no customer management retraining required on the operational side.
