NexusMEDIATION Product Description
NexusMEDIATION - Billing Mediation solution to leverage full revenue potential
A Carrier-Class Billing Mediation Solution for Fixed and Mobile Telecom Services - Securing pre- and post-paid Voice, Messaging, Content and Data Revenues.
NexusMEDIATION is the Billing Mediation solution in the comprehensive Nexus Telecom OSS revenue assurance portfolio for convergent real-time solutions, creating competitive advantages for operators by improving marketing opportunities, cost efficiency and financial risk management.
NexusMEDIATION is an advanced OSS Online Real-Time Billing Mediation Solution for fixed and mobile networks, independent of network technology and irrespective of vendor. It collects, validates, converts, correlates, filters, sorts and transmits charging data from (typically) multi-vendor telecom network elements, which is then prepared per customer-specific criteria for subsequent processing by billing systems, data warehouses and revenue offices, or is forwarded to Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs).
The information gathered from the network elements is transformed and correlated into the highly versatile Nexus Telecom internal data format and set up by a mapping module for subsequent processing by other systems. The output formats can be customer-defined by means of a Java-based graphical user interface (GUI), flexibly implementing powerful business rules, rather than changing the software application.
Billing Mediation - Key Benefits
- Open Systems Architecture: scalable, flexible, modular, customizable
- Multi-Network OSS Technology: GSM, GPRS, UMTS, CDMA2000, WCDMA, PSTN, IP, NGN, etc.
- Multi-Vendor Telecom Capability: Nokia-Siemens, Nortel, Cisco, Ericsson, Alcatel-Lucent, LogicaCMG, Acision, Huawei and others
- User-friendly Java-based graphical user interface (GUI)
- User-configurable business rule engine
- Data Collection: TCP/IP, (S)FTP/GTP via TCP/IP, LDAP, FTAM, IPDR
- Validated conversion process fully auditable
- Highly configurable mapping and correlation process
- Parallel processing capability
- User Role Concept: Administrator, Operator, Customizer
- Auditing: Log files, error and alarm messages convey information about the overall system status and ensure a smooth process flow.
- Supports all leading billing systems
- Alarm handling via SNMP interface, complete audit trail
Multi-Vendor, Multi-Access and Multi-Service Collection
As a sophisticated billing mediation solution, NexusMEDIATION reduces your OPEX by serving as the central point for strategic collection of charging data records from all telecom network elements and by fully supporting roaming-related data exchange (TAP/TADIG). Data is transferred according to a predefined schedule or on demand. Security features, such as file and single CDR sequence numbering, are embedded to ensure against data loss or duplication.
Securing Your Revenues - Conversion, Mapping, Aggregation and Correlation
The raw usage data records are validated and converted into a highly versatile Nexus-engineered internal data format. When the input or output CDR format is altered, the business-rule driven conversion mechanism avoids cumbersome code changes and enables dynamic configuration as required. Thus CDRs are converted from the Nexus internal format to customer-defined output formats.
The mapping rules are configured using the Java GUI and are loaded at runtime, permitting dynamic changes - and evading system re-boot.
Manual correction and re-processing of erroneous CDRs is something of the past. NexusMEDIATION detects lost or erroneous charging data records and - following relevant configuration changes via the GUI - forwards them into the highly automated re-processing chain. NexusMEDIATION also detects errors in the charging data flow resulting from configuration problems, as well as latent errors in the charging data flow due to capacity problems or inefficient load balancing.
Multiple charging data records belonging to one event, session or context are aggregated to one record. The most frequent use case for this feature is the aggregation of intermediate tickets belonging to long duration sessions (i.e. voice calls or data sessions). Usage data from different data sources can also be correlated. A typical use case in this instance would be for node-specific rating distributed over multiple nodes in the network, in which case NexusMEDIATION would concentrate rating on a single point in order to reduce your OPEX.
High Capacity Distribution
NexusMEDIATION in its role of comprehensive telecom billing mediation solution, supports multi-protocol distribution of collected and converted charging data to the billing system or to any other downstream OSS/BSS system (e.g. MVNOs).
Total Transparency
NexusMEDIATION extensively supports multi-level logging, flexible reporting and ad-hoc data analysis. Business-rule driven alarms and SNMP alerts can be set up, and KPIs defined to spot any problem as it occurs. All this, plus a comprehensive audit trail, can be distributed to OSS systems using standard mechanisms while remaining accessible to the NexusMEDIATION GUI. Billing mediation concerns about XML compliance are also fading: with NexusMEDIATION's flexible archiving, you can trust that what goes in, comes out.
Time-to-Service-Saving GUI
The highly user-friendly GUI shortens your time to service for any new offering, providing you the flexibility that business demands. This powerful configuration tool enables you to build, modify, supervise and eventually retire the "Business Logic" you've employed. All new Business Logic is configured in the GUI and deployed live at runtime. The GUI also significantly simplifies your charging data format handling, which shortens time to service when upgrading your network nodes or introducing new ones. Using the available editing tools in the GUI, you can easily update or modify existing charging data formats and add new ones. Moreover, all those changes can be published dynamically on an ad hoc basis - with no need to reboot the system or worry about related warm-up issues.
Technical Data
- Configuration UNIX Server / Win Client:
- Server (SUN Solaris, HP UNIX, Linux) NexusMEDIATION (server part), Oracle (server part), Samba, Java Runtime Environment.
- Client: Microsoft Windows, Java Runtime Environment
- INTERFACES TO DOWNSTREAM SYSTEMS:
- Interface templates for an extensive suite of downstream systems are readily available
- INTERFACES TO UPSTREAM SYSTEMS:
- MSC, GGSN, SGSN from Nokia-Siemens, Ericsson, Huawei, Alcatel-Lucent et al.
- IN, SMSC, MMSC from Nokia-Siemens, Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Huawei et al.
- SDP, VoIP/SIP server or WAP gateways
- Radius, Parlay, Diameter, generic Web Services
- Siemens EWSD and SURPASS
- INTERFACES TO REFERENCE SYSTEMS:
- NexusMEDIATION Reference Look-Up Server component: CORBA, SQL, Oracle
Proven Mediation Technology
NexusMEDIATION is a highly user-friendly, cost-effective, customizable telecom billing mediation solution that is fully compliant with all major network, BSS and OSS vendors. Backed by customized support packages from Nexus Telecom's international team of experts, NexusMEDIATION is your billing mediation solution of choice - available today.
