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Telecom Billing Mediation

TeleProvision (Subscriber Services Provisioning Gateway)

Service Provisioning is the overall process of making services available to subscribers or users of the telecommunications network.  In a telecommunications network environment, to be enabled to use the network services, the subscribers need to be provisioned on one or more network elements such as Authentication Center (AuC), Home Location Register (HLR), Voice Mail System (VMS), RADIUS Server (AAA), Global Location Register (GLR), Short Messaging Service Center (SMSC) and so on. The provisioning process is a part of Billing & Customer Care system that decides which subscriber are allowed what network services. For instances, some subscribers may be allowed to have VMS and International Roaming services while others are not, some subscriber need to be marked as pre-paid subscribers while others as post-paid, some subscribers may need to have an expiry date, and so on.

Virtually, every type of network element offers its own  provisioning interface, making it impossible for a Billing & Customer Care (BCC) system to interface itself to all kinds of network elements present in the network. For instance, the method used to add a new subscriber in Ericsson AXE AuC/HLR is quite different from that used in Siemens D900 AuC/HLR (i.e., both offer different interfaces), whether it is protocol or provisioning command format. In this situation, TeleProvision comes to BCC's rescue. TeleProvision interfaces with a wide variety of network elements on the network side, but still offers a single, uniform interface towards the Billing & Customer Care system. New types of network elements can be added in the network without any changes in the Billing & Customer Care system as far as interfacing with the new network elements is concerned.

TeleProvision supports provisioning of all the telecom services that exist in GSM/GPRS, CDMA and Landline networks. TeleProvision also supports supplementary network elements such as SMSC, VMS, AAA, etc.

Interoperability

Interoperability tests with a variety of network elements is part of the TeleProvision Quality Assurance process. The company is working with our clients to continually expand the list of supported network elements.

TeleProvision has been successfully interfaced to a number of network elements such as Siemens D900 AuC/HLR, Samsung CDMA2000 AuC/HLR, Samsung GLR, Cisco CAR (AAA), Digitalwave VMS, Ericsson AXE AuC/HLR, etc., using a wide variety of protocols like Q3, Telnet, RSH, X29PAD, RS232 and proprietary messaging over TCPIP.

TeleProvision Architecture

The architecture of TeleProvision is given below. 

The Billing & Customer Care (BCC) system generates  provisioning requests that need to be executed on one or more network elements. These requests might be stored in a database proprietary to the BCC system. A process of BCC responsible for firing requests on network elements reads these requests, calls on the TeleProvision API functions for execution. The TeleProvision interfaces with the appropriate network element and executes the provisioning request on it, and returns the result back to the BCC process.


Features and Functions 

  • Network Types

    • Wireless (GSM and GPRS)
      Wireless (CDMA)

    • Fixed (POTS and ISDN)

  • Actions

    • Create, Remove, Suspend and Resume a subscriber

    • Change IMSI/MSISDN/MIN/MDN of a subscriber

    • Provisioning and Withdrawal, Activation and Deactivation, Registration and Eraser of Tele-Services or Bearer-Services or Supplementary Services and their parameters

    • Operator Determined Barring of outgoing and incoming calls (No Calls, Local Calls, National Calls and International Calls), Roaming Control (No Roaming, National Roaming, International Roaming), Operator Specific Barring, Enable Call Tracing, Change Password, etc

  • Interfaces towards Network Elements

    • Q3 (CMISE)

    • Telnet

    • RSH

    • PAD/X25

    • RS232

    • Proprietary Messaging over TCPIP

  • Interface towards Applications

    • Single interface (MML-like) for all network elements

    • C, C++ and Delphi API

    • Synchronous and Asynchronous (Callback) API

    • Network Enabled API

    • Plenty of sample applications

  • Program Trace facility for quick diagnosis



PRODUCTS

Telecom Billing Mediation
TeleMedia
TeleProcess
TeleProvision

TMN Apps
PW EMS

 


Network Access
OSI - LAN
OSI - WAN
OSI - TCP
OSI - MAPS
OSI - CMIP
IP - X25
WAN - X25
WAN - XOT

Portable Source Code
X-25
Frame Relay
TCP-IP
PPP
CMISE