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Oracle Communications Mediation Controller Technical Customer Presentation

Presenter(s)


Agenda

Growth of Real Time Charging

Communications Service Providers’ Challenges

Oracle Communications Online Mediation

Controller (OCMC)

Use Cases and Scenarios

Summary


Real Time Charging (RTC) Growth

RTC Drivers:

• Subscriber growth

• Mobile data

• Policy related charging

• Innovative service offerings and

bundles

• Mobile phone as a wallet

• Real time services becoming

more influential on the

customer’s experience

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Source: Analysys Mason, 2011


Agenda




Controller (OCMC)


Summary


Service Specific Charging System

• Siloed Charging systems are

unable to integrate charging

events from other services

• Separate Charging systems

per service escalates

CAPEX and OPEX

Siloed infrastructure is inflexible

Charging

Prepaid

Charging

Voice

Charging

Data

Access

Charging

Calling

Card

Service Specific Charging Systems

Wireless

TRANSPORT AND SWITCHING


Triple Play and Quad Play Networks

• Compelling Cross Network

service offerings are blocked

by the lack of unified charging

infrastructure

• The inability to translate and

reformat complex charging

events impede integration

Quad-Play


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Charging

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Charging

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Charging

Charging Charging

Charging Charging Charging Charging Charging Charging

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Telco Mergers and Acquisitions

Charging Charging

• Multiple networks confound a unified charging infrastructure

• Unique charging protocol interfaces prevent interoperability


Network Migration

AIN SSP

CAP MSC

3G MSC CSCF

PCEF GGSN

Legacy IMS / LTE

Charging

MRF

IS41 MSC INAP SSP

Charging Charging

• EOL’ed Systems are expensive to maintain and difficult to integrate into an evolved charging infrastructure

• NGN Charging Systems cannot perform charging for the legacy network

• Customized integration solutions are expensive and not as reliable as a product solution

EOL


Mobile Data Traffic Exploding

• High reliance on

online charging to

maintain revenue


Signaling Traffic Exploding

• Rapid increase in

charging events

stressing online

charging systems

Mobile Data Traffic is projected to increase at a rate of

78% CAGR between 2011 and 2016, but the

corresponding Online Charging Signaling is projected

to grow at a rate of 280% CAGR for the same period


Agenda

Growth of Real Time Charging Communication Service Providers’ Challenges Oracle Communications Online Mediation

Controller (OCMC) • Overview • Highlights • Integration with Oracle’s Charging Products • Features • Diameter Charging • Radius AAA

Use Cases and Scenarios Summary


The Case for Online Mediation

• Business drivers:

• Expand network core with elements from different vendors

• Support more than one core network: 3G / 4G / IMS

• Consolidation in the BSS space

• Enhancement of charging services


The Case for Online Mediation

• The need for Online Mediation:

• Unifying charging events across subscribers (pre- post-paid, hybrid, Data, Voice,

SMS, MMS …)

• Unifying charging events across multi networks and multi vendors

• Cap investments in legacy Prepaid SCP or legacy Billing platforms

• Migrate from siloed billing systems and prepaid SCPs to horizontal session control

layer with real-time charging for all subscribers

• Manage the rapid growth in online charging traffic growth


Consolidate Charging Systems


Charging

Prepaid

Charging

Voice

Charging

Data

Access

Charging

Calling

Card

Service Specific Charging Systems

Wireless



Prepaid Voice Data

Access

Calling

Card

Service Agnostic Charging System

Wireless


UNIFIED CHARGING

Oracle Communications Online Mediation Controller


Network and Charging Evolution Interoperability promotes optimal use of charging assets


UNIFIED CHARGING SILOED CHARGING


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Charging

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Bro

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Charging

TV

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Charging


Mobile

Access

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Unified infrastructure



Enabling charging interoperability, migration, and innovation

Orchestrates charging events across

multiple systems

Mediates charging events from

multiple networks

Safeguards charging during planned

or unplanned charging system

outages

Online charging system offload

through charging event aggregation

Orchestration Engine

CTF

Charging Trigger Function Interworking Modules

Charging Systems

Web Charging

IM-OCF

Diameter Ro

R-IM-OFCF

RADIUS IM-WS

Network

Charging System Interworking Modules

R-IM-OCF / OFCF

PCP

R-IM-OCF Diameter Ro

IM-WS


OCS Oracle BRM /

ECE

NAS Web

Services

Charging

Offload

Degraded

Mode



Highly

Available

Ready

Flexible

• Service Orchestration

• Powerful parameter manipulation engine

• AVP dictionary for Diameter base protocols

• Flexible administration console

• 5 nines high availability

• No single point of failure

• Session persistency

• Revenue Protection

• Online Charging Function Offload

• Redundancy of all external interfaces

• Field proven on production networks

• Pre integrated with OCBRM

• Out of the box protocols: Ro, DCCA, …

• Management: Counter , Alerts, JMX, SNMP


Agenda






Feature Highlights

Productized integration with Oracle’s

Charging products: Online charging, RADIUS

AAA, Top up & Balance enquiry

Advanced online mediation and charging

features set

• Advanced functions enriching Oracle

Communications Billing and Revenue

Management (OCBRM) and third party Online

Charging Systems (OCS) with features beyond

pure rating and balance management

• E.g. Bill Shock, AoC, user interaction,

degraded mode, event notification….


3rd Party OCS

Oracle Communications Billing and

Revenue Management and Elastic Charging Engine

Diameter/Ro

Diameter/Ro, RADIUS, Web

PCP

Network

CTF NAS Web

Service



Feature Highlights

Standard Diameter Ro/Gy interface to 3rd party Online Charging

System (OCS)

Wide range of network charging protocols support: Diameter (Ro/Gy),

RADIUS Accounting

Orchestration mode – Enables orchestration of OCBRM/OCS with

multiple applications, workflow customizations and parameters/AVPs

manipulation


Agenda





Productized Integration with Oracle’s Charging Products

Oracle Communications Online Mediation Controller replaces OCBRM RADIUS Manager and AAA GW - Common adapter to OCBRM for all types of network protocols

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Online Mediation

Controller

Oracle

Communications

Billing and Revenue

Management and

Elastic Charging Engine


Productized Integration with Oracle’s Charging Products

• Oracle Communications Online Mediation Controller is the Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management (BRM) and Elastic Charging Engine (ECE) network connectivity layer • Communicates with network elements through charging/AAA interface -

Diameter/Ro and RADIUS

• Communication with BRM/ECE through PCP (IM-OCF-PCP, IM-OFCF-PCP)

• Manages a pool of connections to BRM/ECE • Calls BRM/ECE APIs asynchronously

(non-blocking mode) • Does load balancing of incoming

requests into the pool of CMs • Takes care of failover

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Billing and Revenue

Management and

Elastic Charging Engine


Agenda






Feature Set

Degraded Mode

Event Notification Framework

Web Service integration

Parameter Manipulation

OCS Offload Top up & Balance Enquiry

Voice User Interaction

SMS User Interaction

Oracle Communications Online Mediation Controller provides

advanced mediation and charging features enriching the Online

Charging System beyond pure rating and balance management


Degraded Mode

Degraded Mode (DM) • Charging/service continuity when OCS

becomes unavailable

• Service and protocol agnostic (available

for all network charging interfaces and

scenarios)

Degraded Mode Activation • Automatic – In case of OCS outage,


Controller will automatically switch to

‘degraded mode’ of operation

• Manual – Planned outage for OCS

maintenance operations

IM-OCF PCP

R-IM-OCF Ro

R-IM-OFCF RADIUS

IM-SCF

LocalOCF

OCBRM

XCDR Replay

DM ServiceCDR Store

OCF


Degraded Mode

System level and session level DM

• System level DM

Triggered when there’s no response from OCS to heartbeat

All active sessions switch AND new sessions are processed in DM

• Session level DM

Triggered when OCS fails to respond during active session

Only the affected session is processed in DM

New sessions are passed to primary OCS (If in-order CDR replay is

enabled, new sessions associated with a user who is already in

degraded mode are processed in degraded mode as well)


Degraded Mode

Degraded Mode operation • During degraded mode of operation, Oracle Communications Online

Mediation Controller uses Local OCF for unit reservation

• For each session, a degraded mode CDR is generated and persisted

• Once OCS resumes, degraded mode CDRs are replayed to charge

subscribers

Configurable replay modes • In order or out of order

• Automatically (as soon as OCS resumes) or manually (when OCS

resumes initiate replay manually)



Events Notification • Expose charging applications events towards external systems for

advanced business logic execution

Event Notification Framework for applications • Advice of Charge (AoC) Application – fires events that are used to trigger

user notification on service costs

• Bill Shock application – fires events that are used to trigger user

notification on consumption thresholds

• Credit card recharge – fires events that are used to trigger automatic

recharge from user’s credit account to prepaid account

• Parental control applications – to send reports to parents on consumption

and which services accessed



Event Notification operation

• Applications fire application

specific events over WS interface

• Events are being processed by:


Controller’s Event Processor

External processor (e.g. SOA BUS)

• Event processor (internal or external)

executes CSP’s business logic may make

use of other Oracle Communications Online

Mediation Controller APIs (e.g. change

user’s life cycle state, send user SMS)

IM-ASF-SAL

R-IM-OCF Ro

R-IM-OFCF RADIUS

Event Proc.

OSS Domain

SAL App SAL App

IM-WS

Service Bus

Fire Event

External

event processor

Internal

event processor


Web Services Integration To enable integration with any WS supported

system for charging, event exposure, queries

and other purposes.

WS integration examples

• Integration with network entities where standard

charging interfaces are not supported – e.g.

integration with SMS-C for SMS online charging

• Balance query – when balance management is

done in legacy SCP and rating is done in OCS

• Application integration – to communicate with

application (e.g. OTT applications) for user status

information (busy, available, …)


WS

SMS-C

WS

OTT Apps


Web Services Integration


CTF


Charging Systems

Web Charging

IM-OCF

Diameter Ro

R-IM-OFCF

RADIUS IM-WS

Network


R-IM-OCF / OFCF

PCP


IM-WS


OCS Oracle BRM /

ECE

NAS Web

Services

Charging

Offload

Degraded

Mode


Web Services Intgegration Interworking Module – Web Services (IM-WS)

Network and application facing module

Provides Out-Of-The-Box support for WS APIs: • Top-up and Balance enquiry WS APIs - Interface for service

providers portal

• User data provisioning

Seen as WS Server when interacts with WS client

Seen as WS Client when interacts with WS Server

Enables WS integration with any network entity

Integration examples: • SCP WS integration when balance is managed in SCP and rating is

done by OCS

• Events exposure to service provider's BI systems

WS Server

WS

IM-WS

WS Client

WS

IM-WS


Voice and SMS User Interaction

User Interaction

• To enable notification towards user for

various charging and service events

Consumption thresholds

Roaming conditions (entering and

leaving home and visited networks)

Service costs (AoC)

Parental control notifications

• To enable user to interact with charging

system (e.g. for balance enquiry and top-

up)


Application

SMS-C MRF MSC/SRF

AoC, Parental control, Roaming

Application


Voice and SMS User Interaction How it works

Voice user interaction • Oracle Communications Online Mediation Controller provides an

interface for an application to control media resources in the network

• The interface is network agnostic and supports user interaction through

various networks/protocols: IMS – using MRF (through MSCML)

Legacy – using MSC media resource and IP/SRF

SMS user interaction • Oracle Communications Online Mediation Controller provides an

interface to enable applications to send and receive short messages

• Short messages are sent/received to/from SMS-C over SMPP


SMS User Interaction Interworking Module – SMS (IM-UIX-SMS)

Short message (over SMPP) to network element (SMSC)

Provides an API for an application to interact with user through

SMS

Acting as an ESME for two way messaging over SMPP v3.4

• Receive Short message from a user (e.g. for top up through

SMS)

• Send SMS to user (e.g. To notify user on certain event)

Supported SMPP messages:

• Submit_sm – send message towards SMS-C

• Deliver_sm – receive message from SMS-C and receive

delivery receipts/ACKs

SMSC

SMS/SMPP

IM-UIX SMS


Parameter Manipulation

Parameter Manipulation Engine

• XML based configuration of parameter manipulation and transformation

Enables parameter and messages changes of information conveyed on

sessions:

• Diameter parameter mapping

• Network addresses normalization

• Simple number and address manipulation for network service

implementations

• IN parameter mapping between protocols/variants

Examples:

• Proprietary DIAMETER AVPs

• Numbering plan normalization in CAMEL operations

SM-PME



Top-Up and Balance Enquiry

Three user interaction channels to top up and check

balance: • SMS – top up and check balance through SMS with

service provider’s specific code

• Voice call (IVR) - top up and check balance through

IVR

• WS – top up and check balance through SOAP

interface. Can be used by service provider’s self

service/ customer care portal. Oracle Communications Online Mediation Controller

OCBRM / ECE

SMS WS Voice

PCP

SMS WS Voice


OCS Offload

Reduces the number of simultaneous charging transactions passed

to the OCS

Significantly important for data sessions:

– Data sessions are relatively long and result in multiple OCS

transactions

– Data traffic is continuously increasing and will continue to increase in

foreseeable future

Service/protocol agnostic – available for all type of network

charging protocols


OCS Offload

• Oracle Communications Online Mediation Controller

processes charging requests in degraded mode

i.e. uses Local OCF as primary OCS Charging requests are processed by

Local-OCF based on predefined

criteria: user-ID, user-profile, service-ID, TOD, prefixes,

network entity address

Online Mediation Controller generates per-session CDRs.

CDRs are replayed during low peak hours (e.g. during

nights)

• Pooling application – aggregates multiple network

charging requests into single request to OCS

OCS


Real Time Processing

Offload Processing

Incoming charging requests


Agenda





Diameter (Ro) Online Charging

Diameter Ro interface towards IMS Charging Trigger Function

(CTF), e.g. CSCF.

Acting as standard service independent IMS Online Charging

Function (OCF) [3GPP TS 32.296]

Support session and event charging [3GPP TS 32.299]:

• SCUR – Session Charging with Units Reservation

• ECUR – Event Charging with Units Reservation

• IEC – Immediate Event Charging

• Balance inquiry

• Service price inquiry

• Refund


OCBRM/ECE

IMS/LTE

PCP

Diameter Gy/Ro

CTF


Diameter (Ro) Online Charging


CTF


Charging Systems

Web Charging

IM-OCF

Diameter Ro

R-IM-OFCF

RADIUS IM-WS

Network


R-IM-OCF / OFCF

PCP


IM-WS


OCS Oracle BRM /

ECE

NAS Web

Services

Charging

Offload

Degraded

Mode


Diameter (Ro) Online Charging Interworking Modules – Diameter

R-IM-OCF Ro

Mediation to charging network elements

Acting as standard service IMS Online

Charging Function (OCF) [3GPP TS

32.296]

Uses Diameter Ro to connect to

IMS Charging Trigger Function (CTF)

Support SCUR, ECUR and IEC,

[3GPP TS 32.299]

Protocol state machines

and prebuilt translation of

Diameter Ro to an internal

abstraction layer protocol

IM-OCF PCP

• Mediation to OCBRM/ECE for online charging over PCP

• Uses OCBRM/ECE native interface (PCP) and translates it to an internal abstraction layer protocol

• Support SCUR, ECUR and IEC • Agnostic to the network where

the session is ongoing: GSM, AIN, NGIN, or IMS

• Can be invoked any time in the service composition (or multiple times, when conditions change)

R-IM-OCF Ro

Ro/Gy

CTF

OCBRM/ECE

PCP

IM-OFCF PCP


Agenda





RADIUS AAA

RADIUS interface towards network elements (NAS).

Authentication and Authorization:

• Authentication against OCBRM

• Online Mediation Controller local Authentication

methods (RC M3579) PAP, CHAP, EAP-MD5, EAP-

TLS, EAP-TTLS

Accounting:

• RADIUS Accounting including support for

‘Interim Updates’

OCBRM / ECE

Data

PCP

RADIUS

NAS



RADIUS AAA


CTF


Charging Systems

Web Charging

IM-OCF

Diameter Ro

R-IM-OFCF

RADIUS IM-WS

Network


R-IM-OCF / OFCF

PCP


IM-WS


OCS Oracle BRM /

ECE

NAS Web

Services

Charging

Offload

Degraded

Mode


RADIUS AAA Interworking Modules - RADIUS

R-IM-OFCF RADIUS

Mediation to Network Access Server

(NAS)

Uses RADIUS to connect to NAS,

acting as a standard RADIUS

Accounting Server as defined in RFC

2866

Supports RADIUS Interim

Accounting Updates as defined in RFC

2869

IM-OFCF PCP

• Mediation to OCBRM/ECE for accounting over PCP

• Translates between PCP and an internal abstraction layer protocol

• Supports RADIUS Interim Accounting Updates as defined in RFC 2869

R-IM-OFCF RADIUS

RADIUS

NAS

OCBRM/ECE

PCP

IM-OFCF PCP


Agenda




Controller (OCMC)


Summary


Orchestration

• Across a legacy (SCP)

and IMS (OCF)

OCF SCP

Ro

Ro

IN

Charging Element

OCF OCF

Ro

Ro Ro

Charging Element

• Between two IMS

charging services



Oracle Communications Network Charging and Control


Consolidation

• Consolidating IN and IMS Charging to an IMS Charging

System (OCF) OCF


Switch

Ro

Ro

INAP

Charging Element

Oracle Communications Network Charging and Control


Mobile Operator Scenario NG-IN and Charging Solution for UMTS

Products: • Oracle Communications Online Mediation

Controller • Oracle Communications Service Controller • Oracle Communications Converged

Application Server • Oracle Billing and Revenue Management

Solution Imperatives: • Replace three legacy single service SCPs

• Allow rollout of new services

• Leverage existing OCS

• Set the stage for IMS integration

Business Overview: • Wireless operator

• Legacy IN infrastructure currently runs key revenue-generating

services including prepaid, home dialing, and corporate mobility

• Facilitate the introduction of new services


Mobile Operator Scenario NG-IN and Charging Solution for UMTS

SCP 1

Prepaid Voice

SCP 2

Home Dial

SCP 3

VPN

2G / 3G

Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue

Management

Oracle Communications Converged Application

Server

Home Dial

VPN

OCCAS Service Controller

Post Paid

Pre Paid

2G / 3G

Post Paid System 4


Controller


Agenda




Controller (OCMC)


Summary



Flexible charging infrastructure – key to business success

Mediation Effective charging mediation enhances the bottom

line providing comprehensive revenue protection

Growth Align charging infrastructure with network growth

removing constraints of legacy systems while

avoiding “rip and replace”

Innovation System interoperability enables charging

innovation, overcoming existing system limitations


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information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract. It is not a

commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon

in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features

or functionality described for Oracle’s products remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.

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