Aggregators and Clearinghouses have a unique role to play in the proliferation and ubiquity of emerging wireless services. These key players enable users to expand the coverage area of their native service provider in a seamless fashion. While not drivers of network expansion themselves, Aggregators and Clearinghouses focus on positioning the brand and value of services in the broadest possible environment.

The key success criteria for Aggregators center around brand value and visibility, authentication capability and roaming simplicity. ServiceFactory has innovative solutions to address these business imperatives, and the Orbyte system provides powerful tools to enable flexible, enforceable roaming agreements and the industry’s most adaptable authentication system. Additionally, the system provides definable branding packages and outstanding scalability.

The Orbyte system contains an extensive set of features to address the business requirements of Wireless ISPs, including:

Customizable branding:

• Flexible branding packages and capabilities to ensure visibility and value for each partner
• Support for sub-branding and white labeling of partners

Seamless evolution:

• Scales as you grow, seamlessly evolving from a start-up operation to millions of users
• Credibility and proven field experience with leading service providers

Roaming and authentication:

• Full integration with legacy billing and accounting infrastructures
• Unparalleled suite of user authentication options to meet each individual profile
• Extensive and proven support for inter-operator access roaming with RADIUS