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IRON SIM Manager
A complete SIM card management solution
to secure and protect your SIM cards
The SIM Manager is the central IRON Suite server which manages SIM allocation, SIM control and SIM protection. The SIM Manager has knowledge of available SIM cards stored in the SIM Racks as well as GSM ports status in Gateways. SIM selection and rotation are done through advanced criteria. Prepaid SIM cards become easy to use and control thanks to the embedded credit control, recharge top-up mechanisms and promotions management. HBS traffic simulation features are natively included to offer SMS/text and call generation as well as SIM voice mail management. Traffic is automatically simulated proportionally to the SIM usage by using a unique algorithm which reproduces human behavior.
The SIM Manager provides advanced SIM management capabilities fully integrated with iQsim's Mobile Termination Solution.
Key benefits
- Always use the right SIM at the right time
- Up to 416 SIM cards per SIM Rack
- Highly scalable architecture : Up to 50000 SIM Cards
- Specifically designed for multi-operator and cross country deployment
- Maximize SIM price plan usage
- Random/Unpredictable simulation
- SMS/Text, Call and Voice Box queries
- Web dashboard to manage events
- Configuration integrated with IRON Suite
Main features
- Easy and powerful web based management
- Multi-criteria allocation rules by SIM card group
- SIM travel simulation
- Dynamic SIM swap
- Prepaid SIM card management
- Text/SMS : Incoming/Outgoing/internal, User-defined destination numbers, User-defined SMS messages
- Calls : Incoming/Outgoing/Internal, User-defined destination numbers
- Voice Box Management : User-defines DTMF based scenario to query SIM voice box
SIM centraliZation
With iQsim's management solution, SIM cards are not located in GSM gateways but centraliZed in one place. SIM management becomes quick and easy and SIM cards can be stored in a secure place.
Flexible SIM
Use as many SIM cards per port as you want without manual intervention and constraint.
"SIM cards are not anymore permanently attached to a given GSM port"
The SIM Manager can allocate any SIM on any GSM port according to user-defined rules. It then enables a smooth use of SIM cards across days and months and enables the use of different SIM cards profile during on -peak/off-peak hours.
SIM allocation
The IRON SIM Manager has knowledge of available SIMs in the various SIM Racks. The SIM card to use is selected based on a set of advanced criteria such as current date and time, price plan, GSM provider.
Once selected, it provides the gateway with useful information to access this SIM card. The gateway directly contacts the SIM Racks through TCP/IP to read the SIM information and register it on the GSM network.
Periodically, the IRON SIM Manager checks GSM port status and then detects when a SIM card needs to be changed.
Criteria to change SIMs are a combination of time, date, price plan limit, SIM validity.
When one of these criteria matches, the IRON SIM Manager will associate another SIM to the gateway.
When prepaid cards or monthly plans are running short of credit, SIM cards are automatically removed from routing.
A new SIM card is then immediately allocated improving drastically your ASR (Answer Seizure Ratio) and taking full advantage of your GSM gateways.
SIM PROTECTION
The SIM Manager also provides SIM protection on your behalf. It allows generating SMS/text, calls and also managing SIM voice box. Traffic is simulated proportionally to the SIM usage by using a unique algorithm which reproduces human behavior.
Configuration and administration are done through the IRON Suite interface providing a common interface to all your SIM management operations.
Prepaid management
The IRON SIM Manager manages prepaid SIM cards. When SIM credit becomes low, SIM cards get stamped "to be recharged" and parked ready for "top-up". It then top up SIM cards using USSD, SMS or an IVR call.
Management and administration
An out-of-the-box web-based interface manages the SIM Manager deployment. This interface allows the administration of the SIM cards including advanced features such as SIM Racks maintenance, and SIM tracability.
This web interface has been designed to easily manage large numbers of SIMs. Filtering capabilities combined with SIM status provide a unique SIM tool management interface. In addition, they provide an overall view of all GSM gateways, ASR (Answer Seize Rates) and ACD (Average Call Duration) per gateway, SIM and port.
The Profile Manager keeps track of all events generated in the IRON Suite database. Through the web interface, it is then possible to see per SIM card which type of event has been generated as well as the completion ratio.
In addition, at any time, the administrator has visibility of pending events which will be generated on the various SIM cards in the near future.
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