Automatic Carrier Selection for Data Termination Routing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional telecommunication networks face challenges in efficiently routing data transmissions due to time-varying carrier pricing, quality variations, and customer-specific requirements, which complicate the selection of optimal carriers and routing paths for international data termination.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method and system that configures a signal path between a customer entry point and a termination destination by selecting a carrier capable of accessing the destination, using a central database to manage carrier information, and automatically generating switching instructions to update routing tables, ensuring efficient routing based on cost, quality, and customer preferences.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional routing methods are used with multiple carriers, then routing flexibility and carrier selection are improved, but system complexity and difficulty of managing time-varying pricing and quality factors increase
Solution Approach 1:
A centralized routing server acts as an intermediary between carriers and customers, managing all routing decisions, carrier selections, and pricing calculations in one location. This centralizes the complexity management, allowing multiple carriers to be coordinated through a single control point rather than requiring distributed complexity across multiple routing devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The routing system dynamically adjusts carrier selection and routing paths based on real-time or near-real-time pricing changes, quality metrics, and bandwidth availability. Rather than static routing configurations, the system continuously adapts its routing decisions to current conditions, optimizing for cost and quality while managing complexity through automated dynamic adjustment.
2Ease of operation
If manual routing configuration is used, then routing control and customization are improved, but routing speed and automation efficiency deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The routing server automatically performs routing configuration, carrier selection, and path optimization without requiring manual intervention. The system self-adjusts routing decisions based on pricing data, quality metrics, and customer requirements, eliminating the need for operators to manually configure each routing decision while maintaining full control over the routing process.
Solution Approach 2:
The system continuously monitors carrier pricing, quality metrics, and routing performance, using this feedback to automatically adjust routing decisions. Pricing changes from carriers are detected and incorporated into routing decisions automatically, allowing the system to respond to changing conditions without manual reconfiguration while maintaining optimized routing paths.
3Adaptability or versatility
If carrier pricing changes frequently, then market responsiveness and competitive pricing are improved, but routing stability and intermediary profit margin consistency worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-calculates routing paths and identifies alternative carriers before pricing changes negatively impact profitability. By having pre-established routing options and knowing carrier pricing structures in advance, the system can quickly switch to alternative routes or carriers when pricing changes occur, maintaining profit margins through proactive rather than reactive adjustments.
Solution Approach 2:
The routing server continuously monitors carrier pricing changes and automatically adjusts routing decisions to maintain target profit margins. When a carrier's pricing changes affect profitability, the system receives feedback on the margin impact and automatically selects alternative routing paths or carriers that restore the desired profit level, stabilizing margins despite frequent pricing fluctuations.
4Productivity
If automated routing selection is implemented, then routing efficiency and speed are improved, but routing precision and customer requirement compliance may worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The routing system applies different selection criteria and optimization weights to different customers or routing scenarios based on their specific requirements. For customers with strict compliance requirements, the system prioritizes meeting those requirements over cost optimization, while for other customers, cost efficiency becomes the primary criterion. This localized customization of routing logic maintains both automation efficiency and requirement precision.
Data Source
AI summary
There is provided herein a system and method for automatic configuration of data routings for use with electronic data such as phone calls, faxes, etc. In an exemplary embodiment, when more than one carrier might potentially terminate the transmission, the carriers are ordered based on some screening criterion (e.g., transmission price). Data transmissions are then assigned to the carriers based on the sorting order, with the second place and lower carriers (e.g., the higher priced carriers) not being selected unless the first carrier cannot complete the transaction. The switch instructions necessary to implement this scheme may be generated automatically.