Transcript AdvOSS Presentation

Emerging architectures and standards in
telecommunications
0 3GPP and IMS have redefined telecom network
architectures for next generation all IP networks
0 4G/LTE/Wi-MAX in wireless and NGN in wired
networks use:
0 IMS as the core in application domain
0 DIAMETER as the core in AAA and policy management
domain
0 RADIUS has been enhanced to support complex service
management scenarios for Wi-MAX and other modern
networks
AdvOSS Service Charging Solution
0 Compliant with 3GPP, Wi-MAX, IMS and NGN
0 TM-Forum Shared Information Model (SID) Roadmap
Compliance.
0 The basic solution supports RADIUS for AAA and realtime prepaid and post-paid charging scenarios
0 Both RADIUS and DIAMETER are available as part of
Service Management Solution for advanced use cases
such as 3GGP compliant policy framework (PCRF)
AdvOSS Service Charging
Diverse Portfolio of future proof Billing & OSS
Products
CRM & Order
Management
Provisioning Engine
Converged Billing
Charging & Rating
Engine
Voucher Management
Franchisee
Management
RADIUS Server
AdvOSS Service Charging
AdvOSS RADIUS Server
0 Part of Service Charging Portfolio
0 Multiple Authentication schemes
0 Real-time session management
0 Several out of the box AAA applications
0 Change of Authorization (Server Initiated)
0 Real-time interface to Service Charging and Rating
0 CDR generation
0 Revenue Assurance
0 Service Assurance
AdvOSS Service Charging
AdvOSS RADIUS Server
0 Built on top of AdvOSS Service Delivery Platform
(SDP)
0 Scalable to millions of subscriber sessions
0 Supports Automated Failover and High Availability for
carrier grade deployments
0 Supports on the fly extensibility and customizability
to accommodate new AAA use cases through simple
XML/JavaScript based scripting
AdvOSS Service Charging
CRM
0 AdvOSS CRM allows a service provider to manage all aspects of its relationship with its
Customers. It allows the CSP to define services, create multiple Service Offerings for each
service, bundle them in products and catalogs and issue those products as subscriptions to
subscribers.
AdvOSS Service Charging
Provisioning Engine
0 AdvOSS Provisioning Engine executes all changes on the network elements required for
order fulfillment or service management purposes. It provides multiple transports to
integrate with different types of interfaces. It can integrate with any work flow
orchestration engine and includes three different types of orchestration engines.
AdvOSS Service Charging
Converged Billing
AdvOSS Converged Billing enables a service provider to process subscription charges
for the services that it offers. It allows converged multiple services to be provided to
subscribers and allows flexible subscriber and subscription models with different life
cycles. It generates invoices and processes all payments in different ways. It integrates
with CRM, Rating & Charging engines, HSS and Provisioning Engines for full cycle
service management.
Account Balance
Management
Multiple
Currencies
Payment
Processing
Billing Cycles
Subscription
Charges
Invoicing &
Financials
Virtual Operators
Corporate Billing &
Enterprise Accounts
Friends n Family
Packages
Multi-services
Billing
Automatic Service
Management
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Corporate Billing & Enterprise Account
Wallet Management
Employee A
Basic Business Plan
Manager
Corporate Wallet
Premium Business Plan
- Free on net calls
- 500 Free mins on national
calls
Sr. Executive
Premium Plus Business Plan
-Free on net calls, 1000 Free
mins on local and international
calls
AdvOSS Service Charging
Multi-services Billing
0 Sophisticated Multi-services Billing & Service Management
0 Easy on the fly creation & management of new services
Enterprise Account
Wimax Data
VPN
VOIP/SIP
Trunk
Video
Conferencing
IP Contact
Center
Web Hosting
AdvOSS Service Charging
Subscription model
0 Services are bundled into service groups:
0 Service group is a collection of related services
0 Service offerings
0 Unit of service that can be subscribed individually e.g. offerings can be
created for data, voice, video, gaming etc. It has associated subscription
charges with it
0 Counter offerings
0 Units of Service Quotas e.g. free minutes or volume, that can be offered as
bundled with Service Offering or as separately subscribed add on.
0 Plans
0 Provides bundling of service offerings and counter offerings
0 Line Rents
0 Non-usage based fixed charges the customer needs to pay as rent of
service or inventory item
For further details of AdvOSS Subscription model check our knowledge
base article from here
AdvOSS Service Charging
Subscriptions
0 Subscriptions are objects that allow the customers access to
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services
Customers are assigned subscriptions when they subscribe to
services
Subscriptions have periodic billing cycles
They may also have associated counters as quota e.g. free
volume, free minutes
On each billing cycle, subscription charges are deducted AND
associated counters are re-initialized
Difference between subscription charges and Non usage charges:
0 Subscriptions are always against usage of services
0 Non usage charges are just deducted at fixed intervals
0 No counters are re-initialized on their deduction
For further details check AdvOSS knowledge base article from here
AdvOSS Service Charging
Charging & Rating Engine
0 AdvOSS Charging & Rating Engine enables a service provider to track usage of its services
by its customers. It includes a quota manager that consumes usage of services against
different counters defined as part of subscriptions. It also includes an Account Balance
Management Function that keeps track of customer’s balances. Rating Engine allows
flexible pricing mechanisms for usage of services including flat, time varying, progressive
and others.
AdvOSS Service Charging
Charging & Rating Engine
0 3GPP compliant
0 Real-time
0 Quota Manger (3GPP counter objects)
0 Session Based Charging
0 Real-time session management for multiple services
0 Voice, Data, video, gaming
0 Event-Based Charging
0 Each occurrence of an event charged individually
0 SMS, MMS, Games
AdvOSS Service Charging
Session Based Charging
0 Session Based Charging divided into two further
categories:
0 Duration Based charging
0 Voice calls
0 Internet usage time
0 Usage Based charging
0 Volume consumed
0 Flow-based volume consumption
0 Individual services accessed as flows e.g. OTT (videos,
gaming, VOIP)
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What is Real-time Charging?
0 Real-time Charging requires to support one or more of
the following modes or options:
0 Unit reservation
0 Interim Accounting
0 Combination of both
0 A charging engine that does not support the above
modes cannot perform in real-time for data charging
since it does not have information about tariff rate
switching and the corresponding usage in each tariff
slot during the session
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Unit reservation
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delivery function before delivering the service
Units reserved from the account balance
(Re-)Authorization application reserves the units before
delivering service in collaboration with Charging Engine
More units reserved when expired if session still going on
Residual units returned to account from last reservation
when session terminates
Enables pure real-time prepaid behavior
Enables concurrent sessions
Account cannot go into negative balance ever
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Interim Accounting
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accounting clock during an ongoing session
Usage units deducted on each Interim accounting directly
from account balance
Account can go into negative if usage exceeds the
remaining balance in the interval between two successive
interim accounting packets
This mode is called near real-time and pre-paid with a
small risk
Risk can be minimized by reducing the interval between
successive Interims
Balance needs to be stricken between reducing the interval
and increasing the network traffic
AdvOSS Service Charging
Combination of Interim Accounting and unit
reservation
0 Units reserved in session as in Re-Authorization on
start of Accounting session
0 Periodic Interim accounting packets provide the
accounting clock during an ongoing session
0 Usage units deducted from the reservation on each
Interim accounting instead of directly from the
account balance
0 Residual units returned to account on session
termination
0 Minimizes risk of balance going into negative further
AdvOSS Service Charging
Rating Engine
0 Rating Types:
0 Event Based Rate Sheets
0 Session Based Rate Sheets
0 Usage Based Rate Sheets
0 Rounding
0 Progressive Rates
0 Peak/Off-Peak Rates
0 Holiday Discounts
0 Loyalty Programs
0 Free Minutes and Free Volumes
0 Friends and Family Packages
0 Rate Activation Management
0 Customized Rating through breakout functions
For further details check AdvOSS knowledge base article from here
AdvOSS Service Charging
Counters
Quota holding units of service usage
Can be created and offered to customers for direct subscription
Can be offered as part of a service offering
May include a matching criteria at the time of service usage to
update them
0 Policy can be defined on counter becoming full
Examples:
0 Free volume (No matching criteria)
0 Night unlimited (matching criteria time of day)
0 Free minutes for calls to specific prefixes in voice (matching criteria
is the dialed prefix)
0 Friends and Family (matching criteria is the dialing and dialed
numbers)
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For further details of Counters check AdvOSS knowledge base article
from here
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Transactional API
0 AdvOSS Service Charging solution exposes a highly
efficient Transactional Application Programming
Interface to its companion products, or other third
party clients.
0 The API can be called from workflow layers provided
by accompanying AdvOSS products such as AAA and
provisioning engine.
0 The combination of workflow layer and API enables:
0 Realization of complex use cases by writing applications
and business logic on top of service charging and billing
0 Easy extensibility and addition of new functionality
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Transactional Application Programming
Interface
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Voucher Management System
0 AdvOSS Voucher Management System enables a Service Provider to use pins as payment
vouchers. It provides a highly secure mechanism of pin generation and then full life cycle
of the pin including activation, selling, redemption and purging, Supports scratch cards
and dispensable pins. Allows resellers to generate their own pins. Provides integration
with different payment terminals. Generates real-time detailed reports for business
intelligence
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Franchisee Management System
0 AdvOSS Franchisee Management System enables a service provider to appoint a network
of franchisees for sales and payment processing. It also allows sales and tracking of
payment vouchers to them. It supports creation, distribution and eventual redemption of
electronic credit as a method of payment and for this purpose allows franchisees to make
their own network of reseller franchisees. Includes self-serve portal for Franchisee admins
and tellers
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