The Aepona Universal Service Platform (USP)is a family of products that allows Service Providers to realise a next-generation, real-time Service Delivery Platform for rich converged services. The USP provides a common service layer framework so that new, advanced services can be rapidly developed and deployed across all types of network, whether fixed, mobile or broadband, whether circuit-switched or IP. Thanks to its broad range of network resource adaptors connecting to multiple systems from all the major telecoms equipment vendors, the USP can sit horizontally across all network platforms in multi-vendor, multi-regional environments, delivering service ubiquity to all subscribers, and service continuity between current and next-generation networks.

The members of the USP family are the Aepona Telecom Web Services Platform, the Aepona Telecom Application Server, the Aepona Network Gateway and the Aepona Service Broker. Aepona also offers a range of in-house developed and third-party applications that can be hosted on the USP, as well as a Service Creation Environment / Service Development Toolkit that makes it easy for service providers and third-party application developers to rapidly create , test and roll out value-added services.

The USP provides the connection between the Internet domain and the Telco domain, allowing internet-style services such as search, advertising, direct marketing and social networking to be combined with Telco-style services such as location, presence, real-time multimedia communication and messaging.

In short, Aepona's Universal Service Platform allows Telcos to transform their business towards the "Telco 2.0" model, ensuring their continued success in today's rapidly-changing, highly competitive market environment.