This chapter provides an overview of the Oracle Communications Service Controller product line.
Service Controller is a carrier-class platform supporting an open architecture that makes it easy to integrate with new technologies and networks.
Service Controller provides real-time service orchestration and protocol mediation capabilities. With a versatile orchestration engine and portfolio of standard interfaces, the product provides a gradual migration path from legacy infrastructure to next generation platforms. It enables CSPs to launch innovative new services that blend legacy and Internet Protocol (IP) networks.
With Service Controller, legacy services running on Service Control Points (SCPs) and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) services running on application servers, gain access to and control sessions across legacy networks and SIP networks. Service Controller decouples services from network infrastructure, enabling services and networks to seamlessly converge.
Service Controller enables any network to integrate with any other network. With a full suite of SS7 interfaces, Service Controller translates any Intelligent Network (IN) protocol to any other protocol, including SIP and other variants of the original IN protocol. IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) assets and IN assets are brought together through the orchestration engine to build cross-domain services.
Included with Service Controller is a SIP interface for implementation of SIP-based services. Services using this interface control sessions in both the IMS and legacy domains, provided with an extensive set of capabilities available in the network, ranging from basic session redirection and disconnection to announcement playing.
Services can be implemented and executed on any standard SIP application server, such as Oracle Communications Converged Application Server. See Service Controller SIP Developer's Guide for GSM for more information.