Usage Management

The Pitfalls of Indirect OCS Integration in Online Charging

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This paper explains the importance of ensuring that your PCEF element connects directly to the OCS, and relies upon real-world use cases to illustrate the pitfalls of deviating from this standard.

Standards-Based Service Innovation to Power Revenue Growth

Sandvine’s Usage Management product allows communications service providers (CSPs) to increase revenue and achieve competitive differentiation by rapidly introducing a unique range of high-value subscriber services, including:

  • Application-based service tiers and bolt-ons that appeal to specific subscriber tastes
  • Roaming packages, real-time notification and bill-shock prevention
  • Shared data plans, including family plans and multi-device data bundles
  • Sponsored connectivity and third-party bundles, including zero-rating of partner services
  • Universal service plans that bridge access technologies

Since its launch in 2009, the Usage Management product has been deployed in over 80 networks worldwide as operators transition to usage-based billing models and look to out-maneuver the competition.

Usage Management includes all the features and flexibility that operators need to achieve service innovation in any fixed, mobile or converged network with short time-to-market and predictable deployment behavior:

  • Best-in-class implementation of 3GPP Policy and Charging Control (PCC) standards for integration with PCRF, OCS and OFCS
  • Turnkey provisioning and integration with existing B/OSS systems using standard interfaces
  • Real-time traffic classification and metering of network applications resulting in accurate billing and revenue leakage prevention
  • Scalability to meet the needs of the smallest and largest networks
  • Proven interoperability with a wide range of solution partners in LTE, 3G, mobile, cable DSL and converged networks
  • Plug-and-play SandScript policies that enable rapid service plan definition

Service Innovation in the Real World

 


Click to view the video above to find out how real-world operators have used Usage Management to reap the rewards of true service innovation.