Site Revenue Assurance: - CDR Comparison - Billing & Rating
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Revenue Assurance
- CDR Comparison
- Billing & Rating
Kin Yau Chan
Keynote SIGOS GmbH
Klingenhofstrasse 50d
90411 Nuremberg
Germany
www.keynote-sigos.com
21st October 2009
Motivation
Actual Customer
Usage
Mediation
Systems
CDR
Postprocessing
CDRs
Live Network
(MSC, SGSN etc.)
Good services, fair price
and accurate billing are essential
for my choice of network provider
Test Call Generation
Virtual SIM Transfer
Billing
Automated E2E Call Processing
Does the Billing Center provide the right bill for contracted end-user tariffs?
Does the Mediation System summarize all CDR correctly?
Does the core network provide the right CDR?
Does the whole CDR Post-processing run correctly after a software upgrade?
Our Solution: SITE Revenue Assurance
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Testing is our Competence
SITE Revenue Assurance
Main parts
Test Call Generation
CDR Verification
Billing / Rating Verification
Benefits
proactively detects revenue leakages
provides fair and accurate billing to the customer
performs quick regression tests after network or tariff changes
Overall Revenue Assurance by active & automated end-to-end testing
2009 Keynote SIGOS GmbH
Testing is our Competence
Revenue Assurance
Test Environment
Actual Customer
Usage
Mediation
Systems
CDRs
CDR
Postprocessing
Live Network
(MSC, SGSN etc.)
Test Call Generation
Virtual SIM Transfer
Billing
Automated E2E Call Processing
Automated test call and data service
generation
Operators CDRs of test calls
extracted at chosen point in postprocessing (Live CDRs)
Reference CDRs generated by SITE
solution
Live CDRs
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Reference
CDRs
Testing is our Competence
Revenue Assurance
CDR Import
Mediation
Systems
CDRs
Live Network
CDR
Postprocessing
Test Call Generation
Billing
Filter*
Operator CDRs
(rated or unrated)
SITE CDRs
CDR Import*
CDR Import
CDR Import
Reference
CDRs
Live CDRs
Live CDRs imported
via e.g. csv-files
(unrated)
Unrated CDRs
Rated CDRs
Reference CDRs derived
from SITE test results
* Customization required
2009 Keynote SIGOS GmbH
Testing is our Competence
Revenue Assurance
CDR Comparison
Mediation
Systems
CDRs
Live Network
CDR
Postprocessing
Test Call Generation
Billing
Filter*
Operator CDRs
(rated or unrated)
SITE CDRs
CDR Import*
Live CDRs
(unrated)
CDR Import
unrated CDR Comparison
Reference
CDRs
Discrepancies between live & corresponding Reference CDRs are calculated
Detection of revenue leakages on basis of unrated CDRs
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CDR Import
Unrated CDRs
Rated CDRs
* Customization required
Testing is our Competence
Revenue Assurance
Billing Verification
Mediation
Systems
CDRs
Live Network
Test Call Generation
CDR
Postprocessing
Tariff
Model
Billing
Filter*
Operator CDRs
(rated)
SITE CDRs
Billing Verification
CDR Import*
(unrated)
CDR Import
Rating
Tariff
Model*
Live CDRs
rated CDR Comparison
Reference CDRs are rated according to tariff model
Early detection of rating & billing faults
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Reference
CDRs
Unrated CDRs
Rated CDRs
* Customization required
Testing is our Competence
Revenue Assurance
CDR Compare Results I
Compare results reveal discrepancies in CDRs
Difference in Call Duration
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Difference in Rating
Testing is our Competence
Revenue Assurance
CDR Compare Results II
Compare results detect major revenue leakages
Missing Live CDR
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Full CDR Match
Testing is our Competence
Revenue Assurance
Reporting
CDR Comparison
Live and reference CDRs match
Live and reference CDRs diverge
Only reference CDRs exist
Only live CDRs exist
Invoice Comparison
Live invoice
Reference invoice
Difference
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SITE CDR Info
SITE generates and compares
Time based calls e.g. SPEECH, FAX
Volume based calls e.g. GPRS
Event based calls e.g. SMS, MMS
CDR Structure
Record Type: e.g. TimeBased, VolumeBased, EventBased
Service Type: e.g. SPEECH, FAX, GPRS
Begin of event: timestamp in milliseconds
A Number
B Number
additionally for
Time based Calls
Volume based Calls
Event based Calls
Call duration
Data volume
Event count
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CDR Traces
Rating information for each CDR
price determined
duration
Detailed
information on
how the billing
price was
calculated
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Example: Tariff Model 1
The tariff model is stored in the SITE database and can be defined a
defined and modified by the SITE Admin.
The Price Plan table defines a price for a
certain type of call (e.g. SPEECH),
to a certain destination (e.g. national),
at a certain time (e.g. off-peak).
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Example: Tariff Model 2
Tariff_TimeBands assigns a name for a certain time interval
Tariff_Destinations assigns a name for a
set of called numbers
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Tariff_Properties e.g. defines currency,
rounding, free minutes ..
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Summary
Live Network
CDR
Postprocessing
SITE covers entire Active
Revenue Assurance chain
Test Call Generation
SITE System
Test Call Generation
CDR Comparison
Billing Verification
Rating
Tariff
Model
Live CDRs
rated CDR Comparison
Billing Verification
Reference
CDRs
Reporting
Compare Results
Reports
SITE Revenue Assurance
proactively detects revenue leakages
assists to provide fair and accurate billing to the customer
performs quick regression tests after network or tariff changes
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SITE Revenue Assurance
Customers
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Thank you.
[email protected]
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SITE RevenueAssurance:
Test Cases
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SITE RA: RAS_CDR_Import_Live
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Testing is our Competence
SITE RA:
RAS_CDR_Import_Reference
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Testing is our Competence
SITE RA: RAS_CDR_Comparison
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Testing is our Competence
SITE RA: RAS_Billing_Verification
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