Charging
Revenue Collector and Formatter
Revenue Collector and Formatter captures, formats, and processes subscriber usage data across multiple access technologies to support post-paid charging needs.
Tracking and capturing data related to subscriber usage is a bottom-line business need for all Service Providers. To ensure timely, accurate billing and revenue realization, Service Providers need to provide subscriber session records to billing and settlement systems in a format that these systems can handle.
Revenue Collector and Formatter correlates and aggregates event-based accounting data into single-session records that identify subscribers and their usage. It then filters, formats, and streams these records to external billing and settlement systems, providing an affordable alternative to custom or mediation-based solutions.
Features and Benefits
- Supports extensive functionality — correlation, aggregation, filtering, formatting, and streaming of information — to turn user sessions into revenue and does so more quickly and affordably than solutions developed in-house, by mediation vendors, or by third-party integrators.
- Aggregates, correlates, formats, and automatically streams records to appropriate billing and settlement systems with no human intervention. Audits records into and out of the system, ensuring record accuracy and consistency.
- Prevents potential revenue loss in case of catastrophe with the automatic replication and storage of correlated and aggregated session records in two geographically separate locations.
- Supports enhanced subscriber service and network usage analysis and planning with detailed reporting capabilities via Reporting Server.
- Decreases demand on back-end systems by up to 80% — reducing the number of accounting messages that need to flow to back-end business support systems using record aggregation.
- Offers a future-proof solution that supports streaming and formatting of network-specific session records.
- Includes extensible data-driven formatting — allowing new input and output record formats to be defined using a simple XML-based formatting language, without the need for any development or professional services.
- Provides optional support to stream RADIUS accounting messages to enterprise customers, enabling support of enterprise-specific devices and applications, correlation of billing charges, or subscriber usage tracking.
