Ready for the cloud, NFV and 5G, Amdocs Virtual Policy Controller offers communications service providers the agility and flexibility to keep up with traffic demand, as well as to create, provision and launch new services in a matter of hours – reducing overall total cost of ownership by as much as 80%.

1. Virtual Policy Controller
(vPCRF)
Introduction

2. Market needs & challenges
Agility
Monetization
Scalability Innovation
Transformation
Navigating through
the disruptive digital
transformation

3. Market needs & challenges
Scalability
Navigating through
the disruptive digital
transformation
Bigger, complex networks to
accommodate
the explosive growth
in data traffic

4. Market needs & challenges
Monetization
Navigating through
the disruptive digital
transformation
Rapid creation and launch of
innovative services and
business models

5. Market needs & challenges
Innovation
Navigating through
the disruptive digital
transformation
Quickly test and evaluate
new service offers with
minimum investment
and risk

6. Market needs & challenges
Transformation
Navigating through
the disruptive digital
transformation
Move away from purpose-
built hardware towards
cloud deployable virtual
network functions (VNF)

7. Market needs & challenges
Agility
Navigating through
the disruptive digital
transformation
Ability to deploy and
operate networks with
greater flexibility and
granularity

8. Amdocs Virtual Policy Controller
Reach policy toolkit for flexible monetization
Policy and Charging
Rules Function
Automated Policy
Use Case Test Tools
Feature
Rich/ Field
Configurable
Virtualized cloud
deployable network
functions

9. Amdocs Virtual Policy Controller
Reach policy toolkit for flexible monetization
Policy and Charging Rules
Function
• Highly flexible and configurable business
rules engine
• Powerful real-time metering engine

10. Amdocs Virtual Policy Controller
Reach policy toolkit for flexible monetization
Feature Rich/ Field Configurable
• No custom coding required in the
field to deploy or modify use cases
• Reduces dependence on
development/services team
• Lowers OPEX and increases competitive
service agility
via faster TTM

11. Amdocs Virtual Policy Controller
Reach policy toolkit for flexible monetization
Automated Policy Use Case Test
Tools
• Automated GUI based test tool - allows
configuration test before implementing a
new use case, or modifying an existing use
case
• Reduces costs TTM and risks when
implementing new services

12. Amdocs Virtual Policy Controller
Reach policy toolkit for flexible monetization
Virtualized cloud deployable network
functions
• Carrier grade, modular, always-on and
stateless architecture
• Deployable in a wide range of distributed
and scalable environments

13. Innovative service creation
Amdocs approach
Full cycle service development process through configuration
DeployTestConfigureDefine Combine

14. Innovative service creation
Amdocs approach
• Define all available data services and the parameters used to
meter usage:
• service components
• metering category
Define

15. Innovative service creation
Amdocs approach
• Create the available subscriber plans based on
available services and assign metering limits
Configure

16. Innovative service creation
Amdocs approach
• Create rules to combine subscriber entitlements
with dynamic influencers such as:
• Roaming
• Limit breaches
• Network Congestion
Combine

17. Innovative service creation
Amdocs approach
• Use automated test tools to create/modify use
cases and thresholds to determine the policy rule
Test

18. Innovative service creation
Amdocs approach
• Deploy new services in the field with
no on-site coding
Deploy

19. Out of the box field configurable use cases
Basic QoS
Service Differentiation
Multi-Access Use Cases
Partner Monetization
Premium Experience Services

20. Multiple cloud
deployment configurations
Ready for deployment in NFV, private or
public cloud environments
• Modular, always-on, stateless and
scalable architecture
• Automatic cloud deployment with centralized
configuration management
• Compatible and pre-integrated with ONAP

21. Multiple cloud
deployment configurations
Ready for deployment in NFV, private or
public cloud environments
• Deployments on VMware Vcloud, OpenStack and
AWS

22. Cloud deployed VNFs
accelerate service innovation
Learn & fail fast Launch fast Scale rapidly
Spin up VNFs on
the cloud to rapidly test
new service offerings
Instantiate just the right
number of VNFs to
support new service
offerings
Scale specific policy
controller VNFs to support
changing service demands
Enhance monetization capabilities, as well as the ability to innovate and
introduce new service plans faster

23. Standards support and multi-vendor
interoperability
Rx
P-GW
GGSN
AMDOCS SUBSCRIBER DATA BROKER/
3rd PARTY SPR
Mobile Device
INTERNET
TDF/DPI
LDAP,Sh,Sp
Online Charging
System
Sy
Gx/SdGx
NMS / BSS/ OSS
SNMP
SOAP
Visitor’s -PCRF
S9
VPLMN
P-CSCF
IMSVirtual Policy
Controller
Packet Care

24. Standards support and multi-vendor
interoperability
• 3GPP Sy, S9, Rx, Gx, Sp and Sd interfaces
supported
• Policy rules execution on many different
enforcement points: Gateways, DPIs, content
optimization servers and the subscriber device
• Proven interoperability with a broad
set of policy enforcement points from Huawei,
Ericsson, Cisco, Procera, Allot, Sandvine and
others

25. On the path to 5G
5G NSA (non-standalone)
support
Enables CSPs to launch 5G
services by leveraging 4G core
network (EPC) assets
Allowing CSPs ability to
offer tiered high-speed,
low-latency services that utilize
5G radio – in advance of fully
upgrading their mobile network
core to 5G
LTE
eNB
Data plan
Control plan
5G radio in
Non-standalone mode
Dual
mode UE
5G NR
gNB
EPC
Virtual Policy Controller

26. On the path to 5G
Network Slicing ready
architecture
Policy VNFs included in network
slices service chains Implementing
very specific policies and pricing
models for each one as well as
ensuring isolation between
different network slices
LTE
eNB
Data plan
Control plan
5G radio in
Non-standalone mode
Dual
mode UE
5G NR
gNB
EPC
Virtual Policy Controller

27. Summary
Rapid service innovation and delivery without increasing operational
costs
Reach policy
toolkit for flexible
monetization
Supports 5G
NSA and VoLTE
Out of the Box Data
Plans - Faster time to
market
Standards support and
multi-vendor
interoperability

28. Summary
Rapid service innovation and delivery without increasing operational
costs
Virtualized ETSI
NFV aligned
Policy functions
Multiple cloud
deployment
configurations
Modular, always-on,
stateless
and scalable
architecture
Carrier grade
redundancy
and availability

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Virtual Policy Controller
(vPCRF)