Transcript IP Billing and Accounting

IP Billing and Accounting
IP 4
IP Networking & Mediacom2004
Workshop
Current status on IP billing
• ASP (Access Service Provider)
• Different flat rate per month by speed
» Premium, Lite
• ISP (Internet Service Provider)
• Flat(All you can eat)
• IP/CP (Infor. Provider/Content Provider)
• Free, flat rate, usage rate, mixed
• Internet advertisement
• Use infoshop service for billing and collecting fees
Interconnection Arrangements in IP
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Peer-to-peer bilateral
Hierarchical bilateral
Third-party administrator
Cooperative Arrangements
Necessity of Billing and Accounting on IP
• QoS based IP traffic processing to meet
diverse user requirements
• Questions on continuation of flat rate
charging of IP in future
• Increase of IP based Services and
Applications (e.g. Multimedia over IP)
• Provide fairness to the user who
subscribe different QoS/CoS
Understanding on IP Billing / Accounting
• The charging/billing algorithms used
by the network and service providers
will probably remain an instrument of
differentiation and competition
• The basic information that needs to
be collected in order to allow such
charging and billing will need to be
standardized.
Cooperation flow for standardza. in ITU-T
SG 2, SG 16, SDOs
Service/Application
definition
SG 12, SG 13, ETSI
QoS and Traffic features
• G.17x, G.IPP, G.QoSRQT
• G.VoIP/VBS-island
examine
• Y.iptc, Y.1541
Identify relevant
Data Types
SG 4, ETSI, IETF
• G.825
• RFC 2924, RFC 2975
• TS 101 321
SG 3
SG 11, SG 13, SDOs
examine
Principles
Network capability &
req. Inform. Element