Interactive, Secure Messaging on Every Phone
PAiCore’s Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) Gateway powers interactive, menu-based, secure messaging.
OVERVIEW
PAiCore’s Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) Gateway powers interactive, menu-based, secure messaging. Each USSD interaction is session-based and leaves no trace on the phone, which makes it ideal for high impact applications such as mobile banking, micro-insurance, customer self-care access and national emergency services.
By implementing the USSI standard (USSD over the IMS as per 3GPP TS 24.390), the gateway acts as a unified signaling bridge that enables legacy USSD services to operate over 4G and 5G networks. This architecture performs a transparent translation between traditional SS7/MAP environments and the IMS core. Signaling with IMS Core Network nodes such as the S-CSCF over SIP and the HSS via either SS7 MAP or Diameter Sh, ensures service continuity and interoperability throughout the network’s evolution.
PAiCore’s SDP (Service Delivery Platform) is deployed together with our USSD Gw & USSI to provide an API layer that allows businesses to integrate their existing business flows and applications directly with a USSD menu. The SDP offers a user-friendly Service Creation Environment (SCE) which reduces time to market of USSD services from several hours or even days, to only a few minutes.
As an open source solution, it offers operators a fully owned platform with security and control, able to access telecom networks via SS7/SIGTRAN, Diameter, SIP, SMPP or HTTP.
- SS7/MAP ↔ IMS signaling bridge
- USSI standard (3GPP TS 24.390)
- SDP: API layer for business flows and applications
- Service Creation Environment (SCE)
KEY FEATURES
Key Features
No-code GUI
A no-code GUI enables rapid service creation.
Immediate go-live
Reduces time to market of USSD services from several hours or even days, to only a few minutes.
Menu-based flows
Interactive, menu-based, secure messaging, with API access via SDP allowing for rich business logic delivery.
HTTP-SS7
Advanced HTTP-SS7 capabilities power high transaction use cases.
Multi-protocol
Multi-protocol options, including Diameter and SIP for 4G LTE & 5G, with access via SS7/SIGTRAN, Diameter, SIP, SMPP or HTTP.
Session-based
Each USSD interaction is session-based and leaves no trace on the phone.
USE CASES
USSD Use Cases
Mobile banking
A high impact application of session-based, interactive USSD.
Micro-insurance
A high impact application of session-based, interactive USSD.
Customer self-care
Customer self-care access through interactive, menu-based USSD.
Emergency services
National emergency services delivered through secure, session-based USSD.
Prepaid top-up
Direct customer top-ups, and zero-balance services that let subscribers top-up and purchase products even when out of airtime balance.
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