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TeleProcess
TeleProcess Small Business Version
Mediation
is the process of executing business rules on the collected
network usage data. TeleProcess provides the user, the
ability to define complex business rules offering
variety of mediation functions.
Many
downstream applications understand a format that is
usually different from the raw CDR files obtained from
the network elements. The format conversion to application
specific format needs to be undertaken before the CDR
file is sent to the application. TeleProcess file format
definitions are fully user controllable and hence
supports user specific conversions from the native NE
formats to the downstream application formats like
billing system format, including direct transport of the
CDR data to a database management system.
The
comprehensive mediation features of TeleProcess supports
varied requirements of different downstream systems
easily. These features include data and file validations,
user defined triggers and validations, filtering CDRs,
elimination of unwanted fields, insertion of user
defined fields with variety of data mapping techniques.
It also support PERL scripting language to define any of
these validation/modification rules.
Interoperability
Interoperability
tests with a variety of Network element File Formats and
downstream applications is a part of the
TeleProcess Quality Assurance process. The company is
working with various types of NEs
continually to expand the list of supported formats.
The product is developed to run in Windows and Linux/Unix
based machines.
TeleProcess
Architecture
Features
and Functions
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Cluster
environment:
Processing
can be done in a cluster environment. CDR data from
any source can be processed by any of the
cluster nodes connected to the configuration server
and processed data can be delivered to the specified destination
by the processing node. Each node runs
completely independent in a coordinated cluster environment
and can
run in different hardware platforms. Nodes are remotely
Configurable through an integrated cluster
environment.
(This feature is not supported
under Small Business version)
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Multiple
formats support
TeleProcess
can support multiple CDR formats like Tagged Data
(Ex: ASN.1),
Tagged Data composite records, Tagged Data sub
records, structure types in structure type
records, Non-Tagged data, Non-Tagged data with
Tagged sub records, Non-Tagged data with
Non-Tagged sub records, Hexadecimal format
for all the above types and ASCII, Files
having File Headers and Trailers, Files of type
non-block enabled and Block (Fixed/variable)
enabled. This gives complete flexibility in
defining a file format.
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Validations
and Triggers
File
name sequence validation, CDR format validation
for decoding, validations for specific values in fields, user defined validations,
sequence validations, duplicate validations and
Events/Triggers at each validation are built in
features in TeleProcess module.
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Complex
Expressions
During
configuring complex validation, filtration,
elimination and mapping rules various logical,
numeric and string operations can be
defined. Use of History Lookups, Database
Lookups, User defined reusable functions, Internal
Functions, Format conversions, Special record
based functions, which use efficient processing
are built with the project. Support for
interfacing to external DLL based functions is
standard built in feature.
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Possibility
to use PERL scripts
For
the rare event where client need to perform a
custom validation, an
additional feature is provided to add PERL scripts during configuration of
expressions. The script can be evaluated by
the user at the time of configuration through the user friendly interface.
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Multiple
Destination Mappings
Data
from each source can be sent to multiple
destinations with independent field
mappings.
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Direct
support to Database
The
source and destinations can be a table in a
database, this gives the flexibility while
interfacing to end applications.
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Logs
and Reports
Activity
logs and reports can be generated based on the
process errors, session errors, Process log,
Uploading log, Daily process statistics etc.
Custom made reports can be added to the project as
per user requirements.
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Data
Security
During
the process, highest care was taken to stop the
process for any invalid configurations and log
accordingly. Data integrity is taken care at
every step in the process.
Complementary
Products
CDR
Editor
is a complementary product, through which
rejected & eliminated CDR files can be edited
and recycled for further processing.
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