A New-generation Comprehensive Service Billing System

In view of demand for development of current and future telecom services and the tendency of integrating wireless and digital services, what can telecom carriers do to attract more clients and remain invincible in a network market with fierce competition? Undoubtedly, a standardized service processing system, powerful billing system, flexible preferential policies, and rapid response to clients’ failure report is the key to winning in this competition.

The Wafer new-generation comprehensive service billing system is a high performance, reliability and expansibility platform for real-time management and billing of IP comprehensive services. It can not only help carriers manage and conduct billing for their traditional Internet online services, but also provide carriers with a set of comprehensive and characteristics solutions for management and billing of broadband network services. It is a powerful and effective tool for carriers to manage services, not only helping carriers improve service management standard and management efficiency, providing flexible service management approaches, but also help carriers keep introducing competitive unique services and expanded services. The system supports IP-based new services in an all-around way, adopts advanced and flexible billing modes and pricing strategies, and can rapidly and effectively enhance and raise carriers’ competitiveness on the market.

Features

multi-service mode supported

Support RADIUS-based access services, and support the prepaid and after-payment modes.

Support various card services (length card, flow card, VIP card, consumer card, and continued payment card, to name a few)

Support access wholesale and landing wholesale services

Support VPN/VPDN services, virtual ISP service, banking card access service, and telecom card access service.

Centralized and reliable data collection

The system supports data collection for various user-based services configured to the system, and records information on users using network resources. These records are used to realize billing of users in line with relevant billing strategies. At the same time, it is possible to conduct synchronic and real-time collection.

Complete and diversified user management

The system supports self-help management by clients, distributor management, operator management, and provides operation logbook to provide operators with convenient inquiry approaches and accurate data inquiry. For users with access to the network, the system enables such operation as account opening, freezing, recovering and canceling, and also provides role-based operator authorization management.

Convenient service maintenance mode

The system adopts a uniform service management mode, with uniform procedure and mode taken for service definition, service pricing, definition of preferential package and service-related resource management. The navigation-based operation mode makes the service maintenance more rapid and convenient.

Abundant & detailed statistics inquiry

Provide user statistics analysis, service statistics analysis, service income statistics analysis, network resource statistics analysis, service inquiry, and user inquiry.

A Powerful billing management system

The system supports multiple billing modes, can record various users’ service consumption in a real-time manner, and calculate service price and users’ fee owed or balance in a real-time way according to the pricing mode selected by users.

Technical Advantage

• Multi-service supporting system. The system adopts billing engine, uniform user resource management and uniform service management platform. Integration is achieved on all levels including system’s architecture, data organization, application processing, and data management. The system can conduct billing on various services in voice, data and the Internet, and can customize adjustable billing strategies according to different types of services and cross-service.
• Strategic server and flexible service management. The system provides three layers of architecture to make pricing strategies. On the first layer, carriers can design various pricing strategies with scenarios. On the second layer, carriers can design various pricing strategies with products. In defining products, it is possible to design various combined algorithms and conduct various preferential treatments according to the system’s minimal billing unit (minimal accounting type). On the third layer, carriers can offer preferential pricing package to special groups of clients.
• Good expansibility. According to characteristics of the billing system, the system is designed in a mode of separating layers (basic data layer, core access layer, interface layer, service logic layer, and service presentation layer). In various layers, the object-oriented technology is adopted to turn entities with different functions and properties into different objects, so as to make it possible to assemble, disassemble, replace and renew various modules in the system without influencing the system’s running.
• Support the mode of management in terms of layers and areas. IPB system presents concepts of distributors and management areas to achieve the mode of management in terms of layers and areas. Carriers can develop their own accounts through distributors, and transfer part of the account management function into different management areas. The operator for every management area can manage accounts in the very management area.