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CHARGE-IT™
CHARGE-IT™
CHARGE-IT is Volubill’s product suite that enables integrated and real-time charging, control and policy management of data services such as mobile broadband, WiMAX and VoIP/VoD.
CHARGE-IT transcends the boundary between the network and billing systems. It does this by providing integrated in-network deep packet inspection, policy enforcement and bandwidth shaping technologies with real-time customer-level charging, policy and revenue management functions typically associated with billing systems.
With CHARGE-IT, service providers are able to:
CHARGE-IT is:
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CHARGE-IT transcends the boundary between the network and billing systems. It does this by providing integrated in-network deep packet inspection, policy enforcement and bandwidth shaping technologies with real-time customer-level charging, policy and revenue management functions typically associated with billing systems.
With CHARGE-IT, service providers are able to:
- Introduce segmented data services and charging models.
- Define and enforce usage policies down to an individual and personalised customer level including fair usage policies and traffic shaping.
- Metering based on flat-subscription, event, session, application, destination, location, throughput, usage thresholds, pre-priced content and QoS levels (plus more).
- Offer convergent and revenue-assured data services to pre-pay, post-pay, voucher and on-demand customers alike.
- Provide multiple mechanisms for efficient and effective interactive dialogue with customers for payment management, advice of charge/service and service feedback.
- Seamlessly and rapidly deploy data services that are independent of the core access network and actively mediating with existing Network, IN and B/OSS infrastructure.
CHARGE-IT is:
- Modular to suit a wide variety of existing system investments, budgets and eco-systems
- Productised and delivered with business configurations, off-the-shelf network adapters and business-user empowerment for swift implement and low on-going cost of ownership
- Fully 3GPP/2, IETF, ETSI and WiMAX standards compliant
- Fulfils the roles of AAA, PRCF, OCS, PCEF and Federated SPR
- Designed ground-up with redundancy, scalability and network-grade performance for in-network resilience and availability.
- Scales from a few hundred to over 500 million subscribers. Manages networks from several hundred megabits to over 75 Gbps/POP.
Business Models »
CHARGE-IT serves the following business models:
- Segmented and Convergent Data Services
- Value-added Service (e.g. VoIP, VoD, Content) Charging and Control
- Customer, Service and Network Policy Management
- Multi-account, hybrid-accounts and hierarchy revenue management & electronic billing
- Data Service Revenue Assurance
- Elimination of Revenue Leakage and Fraud
- Partner Subsidisation, sponsorship and advertising
- White-labelling, subsidiary and wholesale services
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