It is always a challenge to start a new business: customer loyalty is to be won, competition is fierce, and funds are tightly budgeted. But only sky is the limit! And PortaOne has a product for those who are just starting.

PortaBilling100 Start &Grow is an entry level platform that does not compromise on functionality and feature set, but however enables start-up telecommunication service providers to instantly launch, price and provision their services while eliminating high investment requirements. PortaBilling100 Start &Grow shares exactly the same functionality with its bigger brothers PortaBilling and PortaBilling Oracularius. It is however smaller and requires less servers.

There are 3 main differentials that set apart PortaBilling100 Start &Grow and PortaBilling:

1. No SMP: PortaBilling100 Start &Grow runs on a single CPU and does not utilises simultaneous multiprocessing;
2. No dedicated DB: the Master and Slave databases of PortaBilling100 Start &Grow share the same physical servers with billing engine and web applications.
3. Affordable HW: the HW requirements for PortaBilling100 Start &Grow are also more modest (see below).

Please contact our sales team if you need more technical or pricing information about PortaBilling100 Start & Grow.

PortaSwitch Start & Grow

PortaBilling100 Start &Grow is fully integrated with:

PortaSIP - Class 4-5 SIP softswitch offers many advanced calling hosted IP PBX or IP Centrex features such as follow-me, group pickup, call parking, NAT traversal, presence, instant messaging, B2BUA, and RTP proxy

and

PortaUM - Unified messaging system and a media application that plays IVR (voice prompts) and features web and phone voicemail, teleconferencing and IMAP server for email clients, auto attendant, hunt groups or follow me, message waiting, abbreviated dialing, call recording, and support for SIP telephones.

PortaBilling100 Start &Grow combined with PortaSIP and PortaUM creates PortaSwitch Start & Grow, a telecommunication services and subscriber management platform for ambitious start-up ITSPs. The features and functionality of PortaSwitch Start & Grow are not different from those of the standard PortaSwitch set up.

Please contact our sales team if you need more technical or pricing information about PortaSwitch Start & Grow.

PortaBilling100 Start &Grow and PortaSwitch Start &Grow come with unlimited and perpetual license which includes:

• Customized on-site training
  
• 6 months of PortaCare: 24/7 technical support and new features upgrades
  
• Source code
• Post-installation services: monitoring and optimization
  
• MySQL DB licenses and Oracle Enterprise Linux

Hardware Requirements

Component	PortaBilling100 Start & Grow Servers	PortaSIP Server	PortaUM & Configuration Servers
CPUs (quad-core)	1	1	1
Minimum RAM	8GB	4GB	8GB
RAID	1+0	1	5 or 1+0
Minimum Disc Space	120GB	120GB	500GB
USB Port	Yes	Yes	Yes
Total Number of Servers per Installation
PortaBilling100 S&G: 3 Servers	2	NA	1
PortaSwitch S&G: 5 Servers	2	1	2

Find more information on hardware requirements and about how to choose your servers on a dedicated HW page.

PortaBilling100 Start &Grow Performance

PortaBilling100 Start &Grow has no artificial limitations on the software side and the only thing that limits its performance is the calculating power of the servers it is installed on. Of course, the actual performance will depend on the system’s configuration, traffic patterns, and the types of services provided. From our experience the following numbers may be expected, on average:

Performance Indicators	Maximal Values
Call attempts per second	15
Busy hour call attempts (BHCA)	54,000
Concurrent calls	2,250
Concurrent Internet access sessions	7,000
Individual customers	35,000
Monthly traffic in minutes	6,000,000

Since less computing power is involved in a smaller system with fewer physical servers and also due to the lack of simultaneous multiprocessor support, PortaBilling100 Start &Grow is over 3 times less powerful than PortaBilling. Need more capacity and performance? No problem! The upgrade from PortaBilling100 Start &Grow to PortaBilling is seamless and requires almost no downtime.