IP Billing – Business Drivers

Business Drivers, Why Convergence is Important, Current Customer Expectations, Revenue Challenge, New Core Businesses, Looking to the Future, Issues for Billing, Provider Challenges, How to Create a Billing Model, Building Knowledge, Choosing a Solution, ISP, ASP & CSPs, New Types of Call Data Records (CDR), Charging on the Internet, Billing Standards, Call Data Record (CDR) - Q.825, Bellcore Call Data Record (CDR) GR1100-Core, CDRs Vs TLVs

Billing Models

The Telco Way, The OSP Way, The Radius Way, The IPDR Way, Growing MArket for international Bypass, ISP Management Plan, Traditional Telephony Vs IP Mediation, IPDR-NDM-U, Mediation Features, Tariff Distribution Protocol, Traditional Carrier Billing Flow, Hosted Billing Services for Enterprises, Invoicing & Collections, Revenue Leakage, Real Time CM&B Systems.

Mobile IP Billing

Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN), Gateway GPRS Support Node (GGSN), Changing Gateway Function, GPRS Network Architecture, CGF Configurations, GTP Header, GTP Billing Messages, Normal CDR Transfer, CGF Redundancy. Valued Added Service Support, Mediation Capabilities, Mediation including Authentication, Authorisation and Accounting. Pre-paid and Post paid solutions. Revenue sharing.