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Highly flexible rules-based routing
An unlimited number of routing rules can be defined using a combination of all routing parameters for highly granular control. The first matching rule is used to route the call. A prefix of any length can be defined in the rules to match the destination number. Rules can be used even to selectively block calls to a carrier. Currently, FractalRouting supports the following parameters in routing rules:

• Time of Day
• Day of Week
• Date and Time Series
• Quality of Service (ASR, ACD, PDD)
• Source Carrier
• Automatic Number Identification (ANI)
• Dialed Number Identification System (DNIS)

Routing Rule

A matching rule can select carriers and distribute calls among the carriers in the following ways:

Percent-wise Distribution
Calls can be distributed among pre-defined carriers for a particular rule on a percentage basis.

Round Robin
If least-cost routing is selected for a particular rule, calls are distributed evenly among the carriers with the same termination rate for that destination.

Strict Priority List
The service provider can define a list of carriers in decreasing priority to be used to
route calls that match the rule.

Least Cost Routing (LCR)

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Real-time dynamic call routing with fail-over
When the routing engine is queried for the destination carrier to route a particular call, in real-time, FractalRouting determines the carriers based on the matched rule and passes them to the querying gateway or switch in decreasing preference. It supports mechanisms that enable failover routing to the next carrier, if required.

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Flexible destination code management
Different carriers have different breakouts and codes for the same destinations. FractalRouting is able to accommodate these differences as well as provide tools to manage destination codes and breakouts.

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Rules-based destination number translation
FractalRouting supports rules-based destination number translation. This is necessary for prefix manipulation and can enable call forwarding or redirection services.

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ASR Report

Built-in Data Replication, Redundancy and Failover
FractalRouting exists as a server-side application running on Oracle. The tight integration with Oracle using native Oracle functions makes FractalRouting extremely fast and robust with powerful capabilities. FractalRouting features a multi-server architecture with built in redundancy at multiple levels. Real-time database replication with disparate servers for routing and administration ensures high processing speed and complete data integrity. Seamless and real-time failover with automatic recovery on proven industrial strength Oracle RDBMS guarantees telco-grade reliability. A full-featured version of FractalRouting is also available for open source database, PostgreSQL.

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Open Architecture and Integration Ready
FractalRouting has been integrated with voice gateways from Quintum and Cisco using RADIUS and Cisco-proprietary GKTMP protocol. It can seamlessly integrate with any other voice gateway or switch through customized middleware available through Fractalcom.

FractalRouting includes a full-featured advanced RADIUS module that provides RADIUS-based routing for the MERA softswitch and Quintum voice gateways. This high performance multi-threaded server fully supports the standard as well as Vendor Specific Attributes (VSAs) for call routing. FractalRouting also includes a multi-threaded GKTMP middleware that supports RIP on a persistent pipelined TCP architecture with built-in redundancy and load balancing functions.