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Platform Overview The Veriswitch platform's biggest advantage lies in the simplicity of its interface. Most clients are up and running with minimal training. Click here for a summary of the platform's features and service offerings. The platform's interface has been designed with both the technical and non-technical user in mind. Its smooth functional flow enables you to quickly navigate through the procedures of creating and provisioning a new account, with just a few mouse clicks, and be ready to test and move into production within minutes. Loss Prevention The platform's sophisticaed routing engine will rate your calls in real-time inbound and outbound. This is accomplished by building the LCR route in real-time from your system rate plans and vendor costs using intelligent high-performance algorithms on every new inbound call. This rather unique ability provides a means of loss-protection, preventing a call from routing below cost. A means to manually override this feature is present by setting a loss-threshold per destination per rate plan, sometimes desired for the blending of higher cost routes to increase overall quality. Packet Inspection For more advanced users who have a good understanding of networks, there is a set of network tools available via the interface. These tools include: ping and traceroute packet capture for Wireshark viewable packet dumps Initiating a packet capture via the interface is simple enough for even the non-technical user to accomplish should a remote carrier require one to assist in low-level protocol or media debugging. These captures are viewable in Wireshark when downloaded. Captures can also be viewed online, if they are under 5 MB in size, using Cloudshark right from the platform interface. Real-time Reporting Call statistics are available in real-time and includes a live P&L, showing you the performance of your routes, total revenues and profitability. Your system dashboard gives you a quick overview of your channel capacity usage by hour, totals calls and minutes processed and you can also view your live call traffic. Billing Another layer of protection that exists is the ability to limit an account's inbound traffic by setting a financial limit. This limit can be set either as a credit limit or as a deposit received, against which their calls are debited. Once the account has depleted it's balance, the platform automatically blocks all incoming traffic for that account, limiting your exposure and allowing your clients to run their traffic fully unattended. Billing terms are set per account under the account's profile. Billing is automatically run by the platform every night and invoices are posted under the pending invoice section for your review and subsequent release, after which they are emailed out to the client by the platform.