October 10 13 2006 San Diego Convention Center
October 10 -13, 2006 • San Diego Convention Center, San Diego California Billing Primer TMC IT Expo – Oct 2006 Bala Janakiraman Sonus Networks www. itexpo. com
What is the problem? October 10 -13, 2006 • San Diego Convention Center, San Diego California • How to fit next generation networking equipment into the existing OSS environment? • How to bill for next generation services? • How to run a profitable next generation network? www. itexpo. com
How to approach the problem October 10 -13, 2006 • San Diego Convention Center, San Diego California • Marketing Input – Target customers – Offer definitions – Charging structures • Define usage data needs – Use cases – Call flows • Specify requirements www. itexpo. com
Who is the customer? October 10 -13, 2006 • San Diego Convention Center, San Diego California • Target customers – Residential, Small Office Home Office (SOHO), Small and Medium Sized Business (SMB), Enterprise www. itexpo. com
What will you offer them? October 10 -13, 2006 • San Diego Convention Center, San Diego California • Offer definitions – Unlimited calling, bucket of minutes, long distance, international – Charge for enhanced services, such as voicemail, conferencing, voice portal – Converged services – e. g. Mobile calls through Wi -Fi Access point www. itexpo. com
How will you charge them? October 10 -13, 2006 • San Diego Convention Center, San Diego California • Charging structures – Subscription • Dial-up/Broadband access – Time period • Wi-fi access – Bucket of minutes • Mobile phone service – Metered • Traditional telco – Pre-paid • Calling cards, content downloads from partners www. itexpo. com
How will customers use the service? October 10 -13, 2006 • San Diego Convention Center, San Diego California • Use Cases – Residential Vo. IP sub calls • • • Vo. IP sub on the same Vo. IP network Vo. IP sub on other Vo. IP network Local TDM number Long distance TDM number International TDM number www. itexpo. com
How will customers use the service? October 10 -13, 2006 • San Diego Convention Center, San Diego California • More advanced use cases – – – – Call forwarding Call transfer Conferencing Voicemail Find me / follow me Presence server Video conferencing Mobile to Wi-Fi transfer www. itexpo. com
How will calls use the network? October 10 -13, 2006 • San Diego Convention Center, San Diego California Use case: Vo. IP sub calls on-net sub Call flow: ASX to ASX via SIP Endpoints www. itexpo. com
How will calls use the network? October 10 -13, 2006 • San Diego Convention Center, San Diego California Use case: Vo. IP sub calls PSTN user Call flow: ASX to GSX to PSTN www. itexpo. com
How will calls use the network? October 10 -13, 2006 • San Diego Convention Center, San Diego California Use case: PSTN user calls Vo. IP sub Call flow: GSX to ASX to MGCP Endpoint www. itexpo. com
How will calls use the network? October 10 -13, 2006 • San Diego Convention Center, San Diego California Use case: Vo. IP sub B forwards all calls to C Call flow: A calls B; B forwards to C A C www. itexpo. com
How will calls use the network? October 10 -13, 2006 • San Diego Convention Center, San Diego California Call flow: Mobile -> TA -> NBS -> GSX (make before break) Use case: Mobile switches to Wi-Fi √ GSX (MGCF) Mobile RAN Subsystem MSC/ VLR HLR PSTN √ GSX (BGCF) √ SRX (S-CSCF) √ HSX TA Generic IP Network √ Sonus IMS Core IMX (CCCF/Ne. DS) PSX (gsm. SCF) www. itexpo. com NBS, (P-CSCF, THIG)
Typical back office data needs October 10 -13, 2006 • San Diego Convention Center, San Diego California • Billing/Fraud – Calling/called numbers, ingress/egress trunk groups, call start/stop time, resources used (codec, app servers, media servers) • Performance Management – Latency, packet loss, jitter • Capacity Management – Minutes, average resource utilization, peak resource utilization • Web Portal – Customer data, service/feature data, call history logs www. itexpo. com
The Role of Billing Mediation October 10 -13, 2006 • San Diego Convention Center, San Diego California • Collect Network Usage (NU) data from network elements • Correlate and translate as required by OSS applications • Distribute to back office applications To help carriers run profitable and efficient networks www. itexpo. com
Billing Mediation Architecture Example October 10 -13, 2006 • San Diego Convention Center, San Diego California www. itexpo. com
Specify requirements October 10 -13, 2006 • San Diego Convention Center, San Diego California • • Traffic level Latency Where to record usage data Filtering rules Data formats (AMA, IPDR, etc) Data interfaces (FTP, AMA DNS, Stream, etc) To correlate or not Storage/archive www. itexpo. com
October 10 -13, 2006 • San Diego Convention Center, San Diego California Thank You Bala Janakiraman bjanakiraman@sonusnet. com www. itexpo. com
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