Wireline and internet service providers have the opportunity to maximise revenues by offering a segmented, broader and personalised range of data services.

Segmentation in the form of different service plans at different price points enable service providers to deliver packages to suit different budgets and hence corner a larger section of the market. When combined with offering additional services, such as VoIP and On-Demand services, service providers are able to take a larger share of the wallet. Also enabling subscribers to personalise these services, in respect of application specific connection performance like for online gaming and mobility via network convergence ultimately wins hearts and minds and develops brand.

To deliver data services in this form, require Broadband Remote Access Servers (B-RAS) and Service Delivery Platforms (SDP) such as VoIP and VoD server to communicate to significantly more advanced subscriber/AAA managements system that:

• Centralised all subscriber AAA, account management and revenue management activity
• Deliver subscriber service preferences such as QoS, Bandwidth and Service Limitation in real-time
• Efficiently and affectively enable service personalisation through in-line dialogue and customer self-care.
• Charge user accounts for event, session, duration and volume based service usage in real-time for complete revenue assurance and up-to-date customer self-care information
• Manage the distribution of customer balance/credit in quota’s to simultaneously used services (e.g. broadband plus VoIP plus Video-on-demand)
• Support on-demand and casual access customers using voucher management and instant access sign-on dialogue management

Volubill’s CHARGE-IT™ DCP is designed specifically to enable such flexibility and ingenuity at network performance connecting directly to B-RAS and SDP platforms for service control and charging.

In addition, CHARGE-IT Service Controller (SC) provides optional deep packet inspection (application detection), in-line session control, QoS management and bandwidth management for usage based network control, charging and service prioritisation. This enables:

• Enforcement of fair usage policies
• Managing or throttling service abusers
• Greater granular charging of broadband services
• Filtering or redirecting restricted application such as over-the-top VoIP
• In-line Advice-of-charge, advice-of-service or notice delivery
• Bandwidth borrowing, allocation, throttling and service prioritisation
• Usage reporting

CHARGE-IT SC is a network router based component and can come pre-integrated with CHARGE-IT DCP as part of Volubill’s overall solution for broadband, wireline and internet service providers.

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