Engine for evolution of 3G and NGN (1)

Sitch: In recent years, the 3G wave of China Telecom has been surging in the cloud, from the high-tech experience brought by 3G technology to the civilian population, various media are also not talking about the bright future of 3G. Unlike the "publicity" of 3G propaganda, there is another "dark stream" that is also unstoppable in the field of telecommunications technology, its emergence and development, it will also bring a brand new business experience to all telecom end users and non-end users, which will play an important role in promoting the development of 3G and NGN. This is the online billing system, abbreviated as OCS.
Sitec has always regarded OCS as the engine for the evolution of 3G and NGN. As a professional support system software integration vendor, sitec has been paying attention to and studying the development trends of 3G and NGN. As for how the next-generation support network develops, what kind of new data forms are emerging, and what is the dominant force formed by new data forms, CAPTCHA is always paying attention to it. He is researching and trying it at the right time. OCS's emergence and development have attracted a lot of attention, and it has been listed as a key soft topic that is "equally important as 3G technology and requires parallel research. Currently, the research on the OCS soft subject has entered a substantive stage. The business support systems for China Mobile and China Unicom have achieved parallel online and offline billing systems.
Sitec: OCS can provide a complete solution for telecom operators and fundamentally solve the challenge of "how to effectively improve the real-time performance of credit control systems.
The requirement for improving the real-time performance of the credit control system is "effective. The so-called "effective" is embodied in two aspects: first, the improvement of real-time performance should be effective, and there should be improvement results that can be used as milestones; and second, there should be a balance between multiple levels, the complexity of system transformation, transformation cost, and operation cost after transformation must be controlled, that is, the solution must be operable. Why do we emphasize "validity" because the current billing system has paid for it.
In the historical evolution of the billing system, in order to improve the timeliness of the credit control, the billing system has tried two different ways. The first is the billing in the intelligent network mode. The billing function module (CF) is run in another independent system and is integrated by the OSS integration manufacturer. This method highlights the "real-time" of billing, truly achieves interaction between the billing process and traffic control, and achieves online billing. However, with the complexity and gradual improvement of the carrier's billing data model, defects such as "lack of uniform data model descriptions", "fewer tariff packages", and "inflexible tariff methods" are becoming increasingly prominent. At the same time, the maintenance cost of the intelligent network users is much higher than the average maintenance cost of the users in the offline billing system. It also becomes the real-time credit control of the intelligent network mode, which is hard to erase. Another method is "quasi-real-time billing. This method reduces the generation and collection cycle of billing records, and quickly calculates and accumulates the price based on the powerful computing capability of the billing host to achieve "quasi-real-time" credit control. This method has the advantages of low cost, uniform, flexible billing model, and easy rollback mechanism. However, "quasi-real-time billing" does not communicate with the business control module in real time, it can only be regarded as one of the "offline billing" methods, and cannot fundamentally solve the real-time problems of credit control and billing.
The introduction of the OCS billing Framework puts forward the re-Revision of the billing boundary between the BSS and the OSS within a feasible scope. One of the important boundary is billing control and the demarcation of the connection boundary. The previous SCP included both the billing control and billing parts into the intelligent network. However, it is pointed out in the OCS framework that the billing control part will be migrated from OSS to BSS, and users' billing data will be migrated from OSS to BSS, so as to achieve a complete shared data view (SID ), provides the possibility. through migration, the billing process participates in the control process of the business control module in real time. The low-cost offline billing system is used for real-time credit control, which truly realizes online billing.
Second, OCS not only solves the problem of real-time credit control, but also the billing features of OCS will bring new business experiences to the telecom industry and even a wider range of groups.
At the technical level, after the OCS framework is fully introduced, the transformation and upgrade of the Telecom manufacturer's Network Element equipment will reduce the coupling degree with the Business Support System (BSS. Although the OCS framework directly involves changes to the interface-to-end system, the upgrade and change of the Network Element equipment uses open and standard transmission protocols, instead of complex and diverse file formats such as the current one, the interface verification work will be standardized and streamlined. The system coupling between the two ends of the interface, because of the openness of the Protocol, it will be much lower than the current status.
At the business level, the construction and establishment of the Network Element equipment of the Telecom manufacturer will indirectly contact the end user through the BSS system, and the user will define and freely use the current large-scale communication network, unlike now, users can only focus on the signal strength level for telecom networks.
Based on the analysis and consideration of the above two layers of technology and business, the OCS soft project team analyzed and attempted to implement the OCS system framework, on the basis of implementing the original business, it has created many exciting new business implementations, such as a personalized credit control system, service quality system, and service customization system.