Openet, a leader in the supply of Digital BSS, today announced the launch of Evolved Charging Suite (ECS) 8.0, the latest version of Openet’s market-leading convergent charging system.
Providing a 30% improvement in processing efficiency, ECS 8.0 is designed to cater for the high volume of data traffic that will be generated by 5G, as well as to the rapidly expanding use cases and numbers of devices, said Openet.
Built on the Openet microservices platform, ECS 8.0 is cloud-native, containerised and based on a Service-Based Architecture (SBA). ECS has been 5G compliant since early 2019, and the latest version adds improvements in efficiency to further lower operating costs. It also delivers improvements to enable 5G distributed charging to support reductions in bandwidth for the increasing number of transactions expected in 5G. These improvements are Openet’s first step towards the future needs of edge-based ultra-reliable low-latency communications (uRLLC) use cases. ECS 8.0 leverages open source in order to provide a more efficient solution. This includes the use of software such as Docker, Kubernetes, elasticsearch and Kafka.
Tony Gillick, GVP Product Management, Openet
With a range of open source we are able to use the right tools for the right task, without being wedded to a specific technology, promoting choice and thereby reducing implementation risk. We combine the best of open source with our own software for optimal effectiveness.
