Launched for Evolved Intelligence’s SS7 Roaming INSIGHT system 20th Jan 2012

Evolved Intelligence, the network value added services company, has launched an anti-steering detection “widget” for the SS7 Roaming INSIGHT system.   This “widget” monitors the stream of SS7 information and detects the “fingerprints” of several types of anti-steering activity.

The system provides a weighted confidence measure that anti-steering is occurring.   It also provides a weighted total for the estimated effects for all types of anti-steering employed by each roaming partner.   This allows the roaming manager to prioritise cases and compare between operators.    As with all other quantities within SS7 Roaming INSIGHT, alarms can be set to automatically warn the roaming manager when levels of anti-steering exceed chosen trigger points.

According to Robin Burton, Head of Marketing at Evolved Intelligence, Anti-Steering is a big problem for operators:    “Anti-steering can cost operators a lot of money.   It directly interferes with their ability to select operators and therefore drives up costs and impacts the quality that they deliver to their customers.   It also disrupts their ability to keep to agreements made with other operators.   This system gives operators a direct, real-time, measure of the impact that anti-steering is having on their business.   It shows them who the guilty roaming partners are and equips them to deal with the problem.”

Anti-steering comes in many different forms and the developers of anti-steering systems try hard to disguise the activities of their systems.   Some platforms are sold ostensibly for other purposes but are positioned in the network in ways which are ideal for anti-steering.    Says Nick Jones, CTO at Evolved Intelligence:   “We are constantly refining the algorithms that we use to detect anti-steering.   Some of these operate in real time and others do a progressive, longer term evaluation.   Because we carry out regular evaluations of INSIGHT reports for many of our customers, we are also able to pick up new forms of anti-steering very quickly.”

Anti-steering is one of many widgets available for the SS7 Roaming INSIGHT system.    SS7 Roaming INSIGHT aims to provide roaming commercial and technical managers with a range of essential information to improve the profitability and quality of their roaming business.

About Evolved Intelligence

Evolved Intelligence is based in Bristol, UK and was formed in 2007. The Evolved Intelligence team has a long experience in delivering IN services.  Key members of the team worked for the Bristol based company, Aethos, widely regarded as one of the principal pioneers of pre-pay mobile communications.   The Evolved Intelligence team is also a pioneer in the use of the JAIN platform and of Agile Development methodology.  

www.evolved-intelligence.com

For more information please contact Robin Burton:  
robin.burton@evolved-intelligence.com  
+44 7843 241371