Solutions Segmented Charging
Overview With growing demand for data services such as mobile Internet, VoIP and on-demand connectivity, Volubill’s CHARGE-IT products enables service providers to offer services that are revenue-assured, profit-optimal and economically accessible to all in the market, by:
- Launching and delivering services segmented by characteristics such as quota, time, bandwidth, application, traffic use, location, payment method and customer loyalty – makes data services innovative, competitive and economically accessible by a larger user market.
- Offering data services to pre-pay, post-pay, on-demand and voucher customers – for convergent but revenue assured comprehensive market offering.
- Eliminating revenue leakage and fraud by accounting for all traffic in real-time.
- Initiating in-line (pop-up/redirect), on-line (self-care) and off-line (messaging) advice-of-charge, service advice and service status dialogue with users – for efficient and effective revenue collection, improved customer experience and personalised service delivery.
This is achieved by combining the activities of traffic identification, usage monitoring, session control and/or service delivery with customer functions such as account balance management and user profile in real-time for end-to-end control, charging and delivery of innovative data services. Roles »
For segmented charging, Volubill’s CHARGE-IT products fulfil a number of common roles to support the evolving requirements and existing investments of network operators and service providers:
- End-to-end real-time revenue management solution for data services with; in-line service session control and deep packet inspection (DPI) options; on-line balance management, electronic customer billing, service modelling, accounts receivable, voucher management, dialogue management, customer care/self care and real-time rating options.
- Online Charging System (OCS) according to 3GPP standards including optional integration with Volubill’s Policy & Charging Rules Function (PCRF) and Usage Management capability.
- Advanced and Intelligent AAA (or integration too) for mobile Internet and Broadband operators.
- Active mediation of data, application and content usage with off-board accounts and balances located in legacy IN, OSS and BSS systems.
- CSN-level WiMAX data charging and revenue management solution.
For segmented charging, Volubill’s CHARGE-IT products support the following business models:
- Charging by destination, time, data cap, message, application (e.g. P2P), VAS (e.g. VoIP, Video), Premium SMS, MMS, MMS Contents, time-band, personalisation, user payment method and combinations thereof (but not limited too).
- Metering based on flat-subscription, event, session, throughput, pre-priced content and QoS levels
- Pre-pay, post-pay, voucher and on-demand user convergence
- Partner, promotional or advertising based subsidisation
- Loyalty, points and history based rating and charging
- Account hierarchy (including parent-child) and enterprise-employee management
- White-labelling, multi-subsidiary and wholesale management
To fulfil a number of different roles, suit existing operator system investments and meet evolving business models for segmented charging, Volubill’s CHARGE-IT products are modular - designed specifically for high-speed implementation, low cost of ownership and targeted application deployments.
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CHARGE-IT contains:
- CHARGE-IT Service Controller; designed specifically to sit in-line to network traffic performing DPI, Quota Management, Service Control and Dialogue Management.
- CHARGE-IT Convergent Charging; designed to orchestrate charging and credit control activity from the network against subscriber accounts held internally or externally.
- Optional integration to Volubill’s CONTROL-IT Policy Management; designed to dynamically and intelligently control network usage through real-time provisioning of subscriber-level policy and charging rules in accordance with network service usage and loads.
Volubill’s products are turnkey offerings with standardised adapters to network and service delivery platforms as well as billing, CRM and IN platforms. Volubill can also provide full subscriber and revenue and policy management capabilities for green field sites. Click here to download further information on Segmented Charging, CHARGE-IT or CONTROL-IT. Segmented Charging with Volubill’s CHARGE-IT products provides operators the following benefits:
- A network-grade data charging solution, with traffic awareness (DPI), network gateway adapters and user-level session control capabilities.
- A modular capability to support existing investments in network and B/OSS infrastructure while also enabling the lowest cost of ownership through meeting targeted requirements.
- 3GPP/2 Online Charging System (OCS) Compliant with off-the-shelf network adapters.
- Extends to support comprehensive policy management and enforcement facilities.
- Delivered in productised fashion with best-practise configurations for swift time-to-market requirements.
- Multi-network, multi-vendor and multi-service compliant to enable holistic and convergent subscriber service charging.
- Enables service leadership, innovation and profitability.
- Charging and control over multiple disparate and simultaneous sessions per user
- Quota allocation and re-allocation to a user service session level
- Dynamic service definition including time, data volume, application, throughput, roaming, location, credit status, usage units, etc
- Session termination, hold and redirection
- In-line, on-line and off-line dialogue management
- Data and process correlation between disparate service controllers and platforms (e.g. AAA, SDP, DPI, GGSN/PDSN, PDN, B-RAS, ASN-GW)
- Traffic identification using in-built Deep Packet Inspection (Streaming, P2P, VoIP, messaging, browsing, download and multi-media) and Shallow Inspection (port, destination, protocol) capabilities
- On-board rating, balance management, account management, partner accounts, account hierarchy, self-care, CRM, accounts receivable, voucher management, credit payment and electronic billing options
- Active real-time mediation with off-board IN, Billing and CRM systems for balance management, real-time rating and user account look-up
- 3GPP/2 compliant interfaces including full-IMS support, RADIUS, GTP’ and Diameter interfaces
- Open standard provisioning interfaces (Web Services, SOAP & CORBA) and protocol interfaces for function outsourcing
- High-availability and speeds to support multi-gigabyte carrier networks. Distributed, redundancy-enabled and scalable architecture
- UDR/CDR generation for post-event mediation and business intelligence reporting
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