Ring Back Tones

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The Ring Back Tones service (RBT) provides the served called
party the possibility to define an audio tune that the calling Comsys is the designer of SpeechFrame®.
party will hear during the alerting phase. The subscriber is
able to manage and personalise ring back tones. Anyone
calling the subscriber will be pleasantly surprised by a spe-
This state of art telecommunications platform
cially selected tune while waiting for the called party to pick gives operators and enterprises many
up the phone. possibilities. The platform is based on Sun
SPARC Solaris and makes full use of Java,
The RBT subscriber configures the playlist with audio tunes VoiceXML, CCXML and Web technology. The
to either provide one universal tune or customised, depend- possible applications with the telephone
ing on the calling party. Music, personal welcome messages connections are limited only by imagination.
and advertisements are all valid audio tunes for use with the
RBT service.
How does it work?
The subscriber is able to manage the RBT playlist and se-
lect tunes via web and SpeechFrame® Interactive Voice Ring Back Tones Service implementation involves both signal-
Response (IVR). ling and media: signalling is required to make a temporary call
to a Ring Back Server, before the call is established between
Two of the key features for a successful deployment of any the two parties. The Ring Back Server itself must be able to
of the ‘value-added’ services (such as Ring Back Tones) are connect calls and play a selected audio stream to the caller.
flexibility and low cost. The lower the monthly fee subscribers
are required to pay for a service, the more likely the service The choice of the tune depends on account settings stored in
is to become popular and be more widely adopted. the called party’s networks. Taking a GSM network as an ex-
ample, the call flow can be described as follows:
Internet WEB SERVER
MESSAGING SERVER - Web shop (A) Places a call to (B), The RBT SCP logic looks up (B) in
- Purchase via SMS - User configuration the RBT service database to find out if (B) has a subscription
- Purchase via MMS
- Purchase via USSD
- RBT selection to RBT, and in case this is true, the (A) party will hear the
- WAP & WEB enabled
-… - Upload RBT streamed audio until (B) picks up.
-…
Mobile
Network When (B) picks up, the SCP tells the MSC to break the con-
DATABASE SERVER
- CDR (billing stats)
nection from (A) to the RBT server and instead connect (A)
- RBT Settings to (B). The resources on the RBT server are now free to deal
RING BACK TONE SERVER - Call Markers with other calls.
- Ring Back Tones - User Settings
- Provisioning Interface - Many export formats
- Interfaces to Back-end … The RBT server is some kind of server equipment that has
- Open standards both a media board (e.g. Dialogic DM3, DNI or Aculab) as well
-… TELEPHONY SERVER as a connection to the signalling network, either SIGTRAN
- Purchase RBT via IVR via TCP/IP, traditional SS7 link or SIP/H.323 signalling to IMS
PSTN - Play RBT (Voice/Video) networks. ISUP is needed for call control, as it is necessary to
OVERALL REDUNDANCY - Starting with 30 lines
- Local Redundant - GEO Redundant - UP to 10.000+ make a circuit connection to the RBT server.
- Telecom grade - Up to 99,999% - Many telephony protocols
- NEBS Compliant -… -…

Operator Level Features Subscriber Level Features

- Provisioning - Single assignment
- Media Analysis and Processing - Radio Streams as RBT
- Content Provider management - RBT Pool, Jukebox
- RBT Management - Group or Calling Party assignment
- Billing - Day of the week, Time of the day
- Operation and maintenance - Special Events
- Statistics (RBT Usage Analysis) - Charts
- most assigned RBTs - RBT per Location
- most played RBTs - Bonus and advertisement Songs
- ringing duration - Access Channels
- content provider traffic - Web, WAP, USSD,
- feature usage - SMS, IVR, MMS

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