Billing System for GSM Network Introduction - N-Soft

Billing System for GSM Network
MNO, MVNE, MVNA and MVNO
Introduction
Nswitch Diameter Platform is a turnkey solution that is
made to easy the introduction of rich and innovative
Value Added Services (VAS) into GSM network, in a
time-to-market approach.
Based on the proven Nswitch suite and its well-known
billing technologies, the Nswitch Diameter Platform
will hence act as the Authentication, Authorization and
Accounting (AAA) Server for GSM subscribers. It
supports several billing modes, such as prepaid, shared
prepaid/postpaid, and complex billings features
(discount, flat-rate billing, double-play, Etc.) and
enhances the services to the convergent billing.
Key features
The Nswitch Diameter Platform offers the following
features and benefits:
‣ Real-Time credit control
‣ Convergent Billing for GSM services (call,
SMS/MMS, Data, )
‣ Convergent services : GSM, Land line, Web
phone or IP based,
‣ Multiple billing modes (Prepaid, Postpaid,
Shared Prepaid, Monthly Postpaid)
‣ New billing features
The sophisticated Nswitch Billing system will
allow Operators to develop attractive and welltargeted
offers, built to meet the needs of
several customer profiles.
‣ Support of more than 2 Billing levels,
useful for MVNE and MVNA
‣ Reduction of VAS development costs
very
New VAS are developed on the top of the
Diameter Server.
‣ Multi-languages IVR
‣ IMS Compliancy
Service and Credit Control
Nswitch Diameter Platform provides a real-time credit
control for the following applications:
‣ Audio and Video Call
‣ Voicemail
‣ Short Number Translation
‣ Interactive Voice Response
‣ SMS / MMS / Data
‣ Internet
‣ Others
With the Diameter Credit reservation, the N-Soft billing
system supports the multiservice concurrent access
The N-Soft billing System takes into consideration all
the variants and options that may affect services prices
such as Roaming, Busy Hour, Etc
Billing Modes
Beside the well-known prepaid and postpaid services,
Nswitch platform supports a wide range of billing
schemes, such as:
‣ Flat-rate billing: unlimited access to a specific
service for a fixed amount over a predefined
period)
‣ Offer & Gift: e.g. When an end-user reloads a
certain amount on his credit, the Operator
rewards him with a percentage of the total
purchased credit
‣ Promotion: e.g. For a given day of the year,
decrease the price of the service
‣ Discount or Rebate: e.g. After a certain credit
consumption, the end-user is rewarded with a
rebate for each new access of the service
‣ Bundle: a combination of previous billing
mode. (e.g. Flat-rate billing for SMS + Prepaid
for calls + 10 % rebate for calls between 8 P.M
and 8 A.M + Flat rate for data service)

Billing System for GSM Network
Protocol compliancy
Nswitch Diameter Platform is compliant with the
Diameter Base Protocol (RFC 3588) and Credit Control
application (RFC 4006). It is also compliant with the IMS
charging System as described in the 3GPP TS 32.260
(Telecommunication management; charging
management; IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)
charging)
All-In-One Platform
The Nswitch Diameter platform is an open and scalable
platform. It is easily extendable as the operator needs
grow. Therefore, one can start with a very small
configuration to reduce the CAPEX, and expands the
system as revenue grows.
Case-studies: MVNO
The following drawing points out the interaction
between the MNO and the MVNO network which can
is an N-Soft Diameter Platform.
The N-Soft Billing System is made of the following:
‣ Redundant Diameter platform for telecom
routines
‣ Nswitch Clustered, redundant and centralized
Databases that contain a unique account per
User. They also store CDRs.
‣ Web Server for Back and Front Office :
o Help desk team. The support can be
done remotely via the web interface
o End user care. Subscribers check their
data via the web interface. (Credit
consumption, Billings, Etc.)
‣ Nswitch Supervision Unit for automatic
maintenance tasks. It locally monitors the
whole platform and warns the administrators if
fault occurs in the system.
It is linked to the MNO Service Control Point (SCP)
through the Diameter Interface. The Authentication
and Accounting information of MVNO customer are
exchanged over that interface. The entire system is
REAL-TIME (Billing, Reporting, Exploitation, and
Maintenance).
The MVNO Network may also include:
‣ An N-Soft VoIP Switch for Least Cost Routing
(LCR), IVR, and SIP Register Server.
‣ An N-Soft Web for Helpdesk. This Web server
can also handle the
‣ N-Soft Web phone Server. This is a Sip phone,
available
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