This enabled us to provide more customized and secure services and also increased our network capacity to handle future subscriber growth ” Ken Okwero, Head of Department, VAS-TechnicalSafaricom Safaricom, Kenya’s leading CSP has always been a market innovator and pioneer. When it needed to increase the capacity of its existing Home Location Register (HLR) database, the CSP did not merely look to upgrade, but instead underwent an exhaustive search for the right technology to future-proof its network.
While building new capacity was top of mind, the CSP looked for a solution that would make it more agile to its subscribers’ needs, quicken time to market for new services, not to mention initiate its progress towards an all-IP network. Safaricom homed in on Nokia Siemens Networks’ path-breaking common subscriber database solution – One NDS.
The solution would consolidate multiple subscriber databases on a single system while separating core network services such as the HLR, Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) server, Equipment Identity Register (EIR), Nokia Siemens Networks’ Voice Server (NVS), Home Subscriber Server (HSS) and Mobile Number Portability (MNP) onto front-end application platforms.
