Traffic Intelligence Platform

Atomic-Level Control of SMS Traffic
Manage every message. Maximize margin with precise verification, classification, and routing

To grow revenue, SMS aggregators and A2P providers typically increase incoming traffic volume, which often leads to rising operational costs and higher fraud risk due to less reliable partners. Sustainable profitability, however, lies in ensuring traffic integrity and smarter management of existing flows.

Skyward's Traffic Intelligence Platform (TIP) delivers message-level control by analyzing every SMS in real time to accurately classify its type and block fraudulent traffic. This approach enables routing optimization that maximizes margin per message while reducing operational overhead and minimizing the risk of route blocking or regulatory penalties.

Intelligent Approach for SMS Revenue Growth

Traffic Intelligence Platform boosts operator revenue without increasing traffic volume through cost-effective routing and fraud monetization. The platform is built as a modular system that serves as the intelligent core of your SMS infrastructure. Powered by machine learning, it categorizes messages with near 100% accuracy and blocks malicious traffic with no impact on delivery latency.

The platform performs three key operations on every message:

Verification
Verification
Analyzes SMS content and flow metadata (sender IDs, volume, frequency, etc.) to distinguish legitimate from fraudulent traffic, accounting for regional regulations and local fraud patterns
Classification
Classification
Segments legitimate traffic into specific types (e.g., OTP, marketing, transactional) and classifies fraudulent messages by threat (phishing, AIT, restricted gambling, and others)
Tagging or Blocking
Tagging or Blocking
Assigns a type-specific label for precise routing at the operator's SMS switch and automatically blocks fraudulent messages by the platform based on risk score

Business impact:

For legitimate traffic
For legitimate traffic
Optimized message-level routing and traffic prioritization strategies to maximize revenue
For fraudulent traffic
For fraudulent traffic
100% fraud monetization and protection of routes from penalties and blockages

Platform Components

Skyward SMS Antifraud (SSA)
Real-Time Fraud Detection and Blocking
This module analyzes SMS content and flow metadata in real time to identify fraudulent patterns – including phishing, AIT, restricted P2P and gambling – across all traffic or per configured stream. SSA automatically blocks malicious messages based on stream-specific policies, ensuring traffic purity, reducing the risk of route suspension and fines, and preserving full margin on blocked fraudulent traffic.
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Skyward Traffic Typifier (STT)
Message Type Classification for Optimal Routing
This module segments SMS flow into message types – such as OTP, marketing, or transactional – configurable per stream. When integrated with SSA, it additionally categorizes fraudulent message types. Each message receives a type label, enabling the operator's SMS switch to select the most appropriate channel, such as direct, OTT or RCS, and the most profitable route partner per traffic type and per message.
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Free Access · File-Based

Traffic Scan

Traffic Scan provides free, file-based access to TIP’s core verification and classification capabilities without integration with SMS platform. Upload a file with exported SMS messages to identify the type of every message and detect fradulent traffic, including AIT.

Explore aggregated statistics by country and sender, and download the report with per-message classification to improve routing and compliance decisions.

Traffic Scan SMS traffic analysis

Business Challenges Addressed

 OTP Delivery Optimization
OTP Delivery Optimization

OTP traffic consistently delivers high margins, making it a priority for operators. While MNO routes ensure reliability, adding OTT channels (like WhatsApp or Telegram) can reduce cost and expand capacity. The challenge is reliably detecting diverse OTP formats, making them difficult to distinguish using standard tools…

Skyward Traffic Typifier solves this by detecting any OTP patterns – including alphanumeric text or embedded links – in real time, enabling smarter routing via alternative channels to maximize margin while maintaining delivery reliability.

Whitelist Management Automation
Whitelist Management Automation

To protect direct routes from fraudulent traffic and avoid MNO and regulator fines, SMS aggregators often rely on complex whitelists (for sender IDs, content and URLs) and implement intricate rule sets across their equipment. Manual maintenance of these lists and routing rules creates operational burden for NOC teams and increases the risk of human errors…

Skyward SMS Antifraud offers a smarter alternative. The solution automatically verifies each message's legitimacy in real time, reducing the need to handle customer fraud complaints and, in many cases, eliminating static whitelists altogether.

 AIT Monetization
AIT Monetization

Artificially Inflated Traffic is a persistent issue that damages trust in the SMS ecosystem and creates a financial dilemma: operators hesitate to block it due to revenue concerns. Standard tools and even human analysts struggle to reliably distinguish AIT from legitimate flows…

Skyward SMS Antifraud identifies and blocks fraudulent traffic at an early stage of campaigns. Moreover, it enables 100% AIT monetization, allowing operators to retain full margin on blocked messages while protecting downstream routes.

Traffic Prioritization
Traffic Prioritization

VIP marketing campaigns require large, unpredictable throughput, while OTP traffic demands consistent low-latency delivery. Without intelligent separation, these flows compete for resources, delaying time-sensitive messages…

Skyward Traffic Typifier provides precise classification and type-based routing, allowing operators to separate OTP and marketing streams and route them via predefined channels, guaranteeing fast delivery for sensitive messages while maintaining campaign throughput.

Key Operator’s Benefits

Increase  Profit
Increase
Profit
Boost margin on existing traffic volume through precise type-based routing and full monetization of blocked fraudulent traffic
Risk  Elimination
Risk
Elimination
Minimize financial and reputational losses as well as blockages of direct MNO routes by filtering out fraud or restricted content
Reduced  Operational Costs
Reduced
Operational Costs
Automate whitelist management and routing configuration, reducing the load on the NOC team and eliminating human errors
Regulatory  Compliance
Regulatory
Compliance
Meet strict requirements from MNOs, regional regulators, and international anti-spam associations (e.g., GSMA) across all destinations

Platform Designed For

Traffic Intelligence Platform (TIP) is built for СМС market leaders — aggregators, A2P providers and CPaaS vendors — who need to protect margins in a competitive market while securing routes against evolving fraud. It transforms operational complexity into a sustainable advantage: higher profitability per message, stronger route protection, and automated control at scale.

Platform Designed For

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