GENView BILLING Datasheet - Genband

GENView BILLINGPowerful and seamless real-time capture andcorrelation of event usage data across any typeof network.Launching New Revenue Streams While Reducing CostsService providers need to increase revenue and attract new subscribersby rapidly launching attractive services. At the same time, they must stillleverage and cost control the substantial investment in their network,which requires a convergent, multi-service mediation solution that ensuresreal-time, rich, accurate data and platform-independent integration.GENView Billing is the convergent solution that meetsservice provider billing needs.Deployed by some of the world’s most successful service providers,GENView Billing correlates information from application servers andnetwork elements to resolve billing issues ahead of the OSS/BSS.With GENView Billing, service providers have the tools to reliablycollect, mediate and control the flow of usage data with the abilityto deploy and monetize such interactive functions as real-timerating, pre-paid balance checking, online ordering and subscriberaccount status.GENView Billing was developed with business needs in mind: tools forfast, efficient deployment; the ability to easily add new data formats;and a web-based interface that is easy to learn and use.GENView Billing: Real-Time, Real ValueGENView Billing is driven by one of the industry’s most powerful eventdata mediation engines. This highly reliable and scalable platformsupports real-time protocols and event processing to sustain the activebilling applications required in today’s networks. It provides the abilityto support real-time applications without additional costs, includingreal-time authorization, charging and settlement for services such aspre-paid and postpaid music, games, movies, and other emergingservices. GENView Billing also lengthens technology investments bysupporting traditional circuit switches, dynamic event processing andbilling, and legacy devices - all on a common platform.Flexibility and Scalability Extend the ValueDesigned to collect events from any type of network element anddistribute data to any type of downstream system, GENView Billing isnot limited to billing data. Routinely, GENView Billing collects eventusage data for downstream billing, performance, maintenance, andsecurity, eCommerce and fraud data. The solution also supports a longlist of data formats and communication protocols.GENView Billing has a flexible business rules engine that allows themediation system to be easily configured to accept new data sourcesand formats as the network evolves. Tools are provided to promptly addnew network elements and new data formats to the system.GENView Billing is very scalable. As volume increases, serviceproviders often add processors and storage to existing systems or deploylarger, faster hardware. The solution is designed to accommodate thisincrease with specific modules. These distribute usage events usingsecure connections and can be deployed on one or several differenthosts to balance changing loads.Minimize Revenue Loss, MaximizeRevenue OpportunitiesWhether the service provider is launching new IMS-based services orlooking to maximize revenue on existing solutions, all usage must betracked and billed. GENView Billing ensures faster to market and fasterto generate billable revenue with powerful data capture and extensivedata validation processes.

GENView BILLINGVigorous Reporting for Intelligent ManagementGENView Billing provides complete end-to-end auditing capabilitiesto ensure accuracy of data and assurance of revenue and it is also incompliance with Sarbanes-Oxley requirements.The system provides web-based reporting and monitoring with auditinformation stored in a relational database for greatly enhancedflexibility of monitoring and reporting. It also allows for userconfigurablereports and alarms, including communication failures,data validation warnings, rules processing errors, duplicate or missingblocks or records, excessive CPU load, disk capacity threshold errors,and system volume reports. Integrated usage data from multiplestreams is available in a varietyof formats - including XML - forcustomer analysis, fraud monitoring, usage and content billing, andcapacity forecasting and management.Unmasking Phantom Traffic to RevealBillable UsageCalls that terminate at the local exchange switch that create CDRs(Call Data Records) that don’t contain the information necessary forbilling - are known as Phantom Traffic. This is another usage streamthat eats away at potential revenue and hurts profitability - and onethat’s expected to grow with VoIP and wireless traffic. GENViewBilling includes a Phantom Traffic Identifier to isolate and categorizesuspected Phantom Traffic by using the CDRs to categorize theincoming trunk groups. Separated traffic can be viewedand sent to adownstream processfor investigation andcorrection, then reenteredinto the datastream for billingor validation. Thesoftware createsstatistical reportsthat compare thesuspected PhantomTraffic against totaltraffic and auditsthe CDRs fromthe time they arerecognized untilthey are properlydispersed.Platform Independence Saves Costs;Stretches InvestmentDesigned to operate on GENBAND’s GENiUS and RackMountable Server, GENView Billing can be configured to meet awide variety of requirements: from small, single server configurationsto large multi-site, multi-computer, multi-processor systems supportingterabytes of storage.Additionally, the GENView Billing solution is compliantwithtomorrow’s standards as well as today’s fixed and mobilespecifications. This reduces operating costs and improves the abilityto support existing and legacy networks, as well as provides areliable pathway to IMS.AnalysisCollection, Storeand ForwardCustomer OSSBusiness Solution SystemMediationDataserverMulti-Vendor and Multi-SystemGENViewProvisioningand PortalsandGENViewManagerGENView Billing processes information from GENBAND’s marketleadingproduct lines as well as elements from other providers. Thisallows service providers to benefit from existing investments whileexpanding to new services.

GENView BILLINGBuilt on GENBAND’s Heritage of ReliabilityOnce configured, GENView Billing operates virtually unattended. Itgenerates informational and alarm messages of any required actionswhile status logs and displays allow monitoring and diagnosisof any potential issues. GENView Billing can be deployed as aload-balanced cluster that allows for failover redundancy utilizingHigh-Availability software, or a simple, cost-effective solution.Genview Billing SpecificationsReal time collection - Event stream processing from end to end;Filtering - events and CDRs guided to different processing flows;Aggregation - reduction of data flow to following systemsCorrelation - Numerous events combined to generate one eventusage recordEnhancement - Events and CDRs enhanced with externalreference dataFormatting - Generation of industry standard and proprietary formatsDistribution - Events and CDRs sent to multiple destinationsSecurity - IPsec, IKE, SFTP, SSH, TCP wrappersRedundancy - Full redundancy with HA software provides subsecondfail-over and ensures 99.9999% availabilityScalable - Solutions available for single network element, lowsubscriber solutions, or multimode, billions of daily usage eventsAuditing - Events and CDRs are audited by file and/or timeboundary; audits are written as XML files for local persistence and canbe viewed via the web interfaceAAA Content SwitchCallSessionCATV Switch IP Node Content RouterWireless Wireline IP/ConvergentAbout GENViewGENView is GENBAND’s unified operation, administration,maintenance and provisioning system for GENBAND’s portfolioof network elements. It provides one system, one GUI, one userexperience and one northbound interface to the OSS/BSS.GENView is composed of four components:• GENView Manager (Fault, Performance, Security and SystemConfiguration)• GENView Billing (Mediation, analysis, data storage and transfer)• GENView Provisioning and Portals (Service Provider, Enterprise, EndUser and End Point provisioning)• GENView Assurance (Quality Assurance and Metrics, hostedperformance information)GENView introduces simplicity into the network, provides significantsavings and enables new revenue sources.For more information about GENView ask your local GENBANDrepresentative or visit genband.com/genviewNetworkPlanningBillingInterconnect Billing Fraud DSSwww.genband.com 1-866-GENBAND© 2013 GENBAND Inc. All rights reserved.The GENBAND logo is a registered trademark of GENBAND Inc.This document and any products or functionality itdescribes are subject to change without notice. Pleasecontact GENBAND for additional information and updates.