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Aradial Converged Billing Features & capabilities


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Publication Date: 2021-07


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Contents Contents ......................................................................................................................................... 3 Aradial Converged Billing .......................................................................................................... 4

Features Overview ............................................................................................................................... 4 AAA ..................................................................................................................................................... 7 Subscriber management ...................................................................................................................... 8 Overview of Prepaid Features ............................................................................................................. 8 Data Rating Capabilities ...................................................................................................................... 9

VOIP Rating Capabilities – VOICE module .................................................................................. 10

Calling Cards – VOICE module ..................................................................................................... 10

Postpaid Billing – Invoice & Receivables – Postpaid module ........................................................ 11 Customer Management ..................................................................................................................... 11 Resource Management and inventory .............................................................................................. 12 Credit Control and Disconnect enforcement .................................................................................... 12 Advanced Reporting / Statistics ........................................................................................................ 13

Aradial RADIUS / AAA server capabilities ........................................................................... 15 List of AAA server capabilities ......................................................................................................... 15 Hotspots and ISP services ................................................................................................................. 16 VOIP – VOICE module .................................................................................................................... 16 Wimax Module .................................................................................................................................. 16 Mobile 3G Module ............................................................................................................................ 17 Diameter Server Module - Diameter + Policy control Module ....................................................... 17 MVNO ............................................................................................................................................... 17

VOICE Wholesale Monitoring and Interconnect (Optional module)................................ 18

PCRF – Aradial Policy Control (Optional Module) ............................................................. 19


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Aradial Converged Billing

Features Overview

Convergent Prepaid and postpaid subscribers.

Convergent Services: ISP, Mobile, Wifi, FTTH, VOICE/VOIP, MVNO, Mobile and

other services.

Advanced customer structure and administration

o Account – shared balance for users – Postpaid

o Users under account

o Multiple offers per user – support for multiple services per user and

multiple (unlimited) quota balances

o Resource/ANI/CPE defined per users

o SIM management for Mobile and CPE support

Product catalog

o Price plans

o Offers using price plans

Price plan

Network profile provisioning

o One-time offers

o Add on offers – to allow extending a service offer, e.g. quota, time adding,

expiration

o Additional offers – add on service offers to allow multiple services per

subscriber, e.g. Data, Voice, SMS, Wifi for the same subscriber offer.

o Qualification rules for offer selection based on event attributes

Self service for users and accounts

o Users and passwords management

o Payments

o Purchase new offers and upgrades

o Change tariff plans

o Access account details – Postpaid

o Show invoices – Postpaid


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o View bills – Postpaid

o View recharge history wherever applicable

o Download Bills or recharge details – Postpaid

o Pay bills or recharge prepaid accounts

o Responsive design

o Balance transfer between users

Public portal for self registration with reactive and responsive design

Payments – Credit card, PayPal and Mobile Money (M-Pessa) – integration with

multiple payment gateways

Trouble ticketing – administration and self care

Blacklist and white list administration for network


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Account and user operations

o Manage user status

o 360 View

o View financial transactions, sessions and calls

o Payment by credit card or PayPal

o Adjustments to invoices – Postpaid

o Manual payments – cash, checks, bank transfers - Postpaid

o Balance transfer between users

Invoicing - Postpaid

o Periodic automatic invoicing

o Invoicing sent via email

o XSL layout – branding

o PDF printing

o Undo billing

Flexible charging & rating

o Periodic RCs

o Usage charges

Allowances – multiple allowed

Time of day and day of week and calendar

Destination charging (mainly for VOICE, SMS, Movies) – VOICE

o One-time charges

CDRs processing including error management or rating problems – CDR

processing module

Automatic payment after invoicing run – Postpaid

o Error management

Account Receivables (A/R)

o Manual, fast payment screen

o Credit card – integration with 25 payment systems

o PayPal

o Mobile Money – integration with mobile money payment systems

Accounting reports

o Invoicing – Postpaid


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o Payments

o Sales report

o Per-account statements – Postpaid

o Operator statement (invoicing vs payment and adjustments) – Postpaid

o Aging payment reports – Postpaid

Advanced partner reseller management and reports – Postpaid + PRM module

o Hierarchy for resellers / Business

o Contracts

o Dedicated offers

o Reports

VISP / MVNO support – Postpaid + PRM module

o Hierarchy for resellers / Business

o Contracts

o Dedicated offers

o Reports

o API to external systems

DPI integrations – Deep packet inspection – Allot, Procera, SAISEI, others

Micros Fidelio/Opera support – to charge the room in Hotels

AAA RADIUS – Please see all the feature of the RADIUS / AAA module.

Diameter AAA support Ro/Rf/Gy/Gx/S6a/Swx – Diameter module

WiMAX AAA support (including 802.16e mobility) – Wimax module

Profiles and QOS profiles

Bandwidth management

Concurrency enforcement per group or per user

Advanced usage reporting

Dynamic IP pool allocation with support for high availability – DHCP alternative

Statistics graphs

Security – SSL-secured HTML-based administration

WiFi hotspot support


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Subscriber management HTML user interface for user database and user groups

Customer self-care module

Configurable and customized per location captive portal

Policy (group policy) & QoS control

Bandwidth, time and traffic control per group or user

Online sessions management to disconnect users in real time

Fixed-IP support

Charts

Policy Charging Control function – advanced QOS, notification and Quota policies

– PCRF - Policy control Module

Overview of Prepaid Features Centralized authentication and accounting for all the routers or gateways.

Converged services: VOIP, Dial-up, Wifi and ISP Broadband/DSL support on the

same platform.

SSL secured HTML based administration.

Extended HTML UI for user database and groups of users.

High-performance and reliable server.

Scalable to handle millions of users and concurrent sessions on low-end

hardware.

Support most of the Access points

Support most of Softswitches and VOICE gateways on the market – VOICE

module

Balance, Duration and Volume / Traffic enforcement.

Balance and Credit Limit per user/calling card/prepaid card.

User concurrency enforcement and viewing concurrent sessions from the

administration tool. Including session disconnect.

Charging and enforcement based on Interim updates.

Support for multi-session using balance management (Quota management).


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Special prevention & detection of Zombie/dead sessions that were not

released/confirmed by the NAS.

HTTP/REST API for external systems and customization.

MIB support for integration with SNMP based NMS.

Data Rating Capabilities Expiration date

Time quota

Volume quota

Time and volume quota (whichever runs out first) + expiration check.

Unlimited card with a time expiration date (e.g. 24 hour card)

Destination based rate – VOICE module

Access code based rate

Rate based on time of day

Rate based on time of day and destination – VOICE module

Destination based rate with x free minutes – VOICE module

Usage charges

o Allowances

o Time of day and day of week and calendar

o Destination charging (mainly for VOICE, SMS) – VOICE module

o IPTV, VOD and Movies charges

o Allowances per zones – unlimited allowances and zones – VOICE module

Periodic RCs

One-time charges

Qualification rules for price plan selection based on event attributes

Customized Rating – flexible rating to enable advanced and complex rating.


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VOIP Rating Capabilities – VOICE module

ANI based (caller ID)

Rating according to call destination

Different rounding intervals per tariff/destination

Call setup cost

Rating according to time of day, day of week

Unlimited number of rate tables and Tariff definition.

Import of rates from CSV files.

Allowances per zones – unlimited allowances and zones

Calling Cards – VOICE module

Authentication, authorization, accounting (AAA) and real time VOIP prepaid.

Full prepaid system for Cisco, YATE, Teles, Mailvision/Audiocodes, Dialogic,

Sonus, NexGe, Mera, Asterisks (using RADIUS) softswitch / gateways and many

others.

Calling Card based prepaid billing.

Calling card generation importing and exporting.

Replenishing API or voucher refilling

Support multiple Tariffs and destination rating tables that can be assigned for a

calling card.

Session reports and summary reports per calling card, per system, per

destination and period.


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Postpaid Billing – Invoice & Receivables – Postpaid module Recurring charges (RC)

RC Proration + Flexible proration based on expression

One time charges

Taxes

Multiple billing cycles

Automatic invoice generation

Automatic sending of invoices via mail (HTML or PDF)

Advanced bill day workflow

o Run / Rerun

o Undo

o QA

o Confirm

o Bill Production

Open Item / Balance Forward

Prepaid statements

Credit limit

Multi currency

Bundles

Reports

Customer Management User information definition

Account can contain unlimited number of users

Advanced search for users

View users sessions

Self Care module to view the account by the user

History of successful/unsuccessful calls

Send email to users

Adjust time and money, change password, etc


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Partners/Dealer/Business partner management. Dealers can manage their own

users

Support for multiple Admin types.

Admin activity tracking.

Multi Currency

CRM features:

o Trouble Ticketing

o Workforce management

o American Tax support

o Change history for all entities

o 3rd party Help desk integration

Resource Management and inventory Full life cycle for Inventory

Create Inventory: Number, MAC Address, Modem Serials, IMSI

Import from files

Automatic assignment of resources to users and under users.

Credit Control and Disconnect enforcement Concurrency enforcement per group or per user

Time of day concurrency enforcement per group or per user

Active disconnection of user from Admin UI using packet-of-disconnect (POD).

Expiration, Duration and Volume enforcement.

Credit limits enforcement for all users. Prepaid users enforced at Zero balances.

Disconnect using Packet-Of-Disconnect

Automatic disconnect of user when their balances are depleted using POD.

o Advanced support for notification with the PCRF module

Optional: Send notification to users: email, SMS – PCRF module

o SMS gateway using email or SMPP


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Advanced Reporting / Statistics Operator reports – Postpaid

o Statements

o Invoicing

o Payments

o Income reports

o Automatic Payments

o Status

o Payment Aging reports

Account reports – Postpaid

o List

o Statement

o Balance

o Transaction

o Payments

o Sessions

User reports

o List

o Balances

o Transactions

o Sessions

o Payments

Resources reports

Vouchers reports and management

o Vouchers list and export

o Vouchers status report

o Activation report

o Use vouchers and income

Tickets reports

Credit Card payment history report

Automatic Credit Card payment history report – Postpaid + Automatic payment

module

Session and summary reports per calling card, system, destination and period


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Open database to generate extended reports via reporting tools.


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Aradial RADIUS / AAA server capabilities

List of AAA server capabilities 1. Centralized authentication and accounting for all the routers or gateways 2. High-performance and reliable server. 3. Runs on Windows or Linux 4. Backend database: MS SQL server or Oracle. 5. Scalability and Real-time AAA functionalities. 6. Scalable to handle millions of users and concurrent sessions. 7. Performs 2000 AAA/sec on a small hardware with database or LDAP. 8. Real time active session management. 9. Grouping and Sub Grouping of user’s profiles. 10. Bandwidth enforcement according to the user policy. 11. Concurrency enforcement per group or user. 12. Policy algorithms. 13. Detection of zombie sessions using Interim accounting and removing them

from the concurrency check. 14. Time Bank enforcements. 15. Traffic Bank enforcements. 16. Expiration time enforcement. 17. Supports: EAP-PEAP and EAP-TTLS, EAP-TLS, EAP-MD5 18. Digest, MS-Chap and MS-ChapV2 support 19. Login from Portal: PAP or CHAP. 20. SSL secured HTML based administration 21. HTML user interface for users and user groups with security profiles. 22. Provisioning API for External systems to manage users and query. 23. Aradial API supports CoA (Change of Authorization) and POD (packet of

disconnect). 24. Proxying to other RADIUS servers. 25. Process monitoring - including SNMP MIBs and traps. 26. Dynamic Persistent IP pool allocation with support for high availability –

DHCP alternative. 27. Block or change QoS for Groups in Time-of-Day periods (e.g. peak, off-peak

configurations). 28. Online session disconnection using POD (packet of disconnect). 29. Tunneling support configuring the NAS. 30. Statistics graphs 31. High speed IP Pools 32. IPv6:

a) IPv6 attributes b) IPv6 sockets c) IPv6 IP Pools

33. Enhanced zombie session mechanism 34. Rule based authentication engine – advanced feature.

35. Periodic QoS – for dynamically changing the QoS of online sessions

according to time of day.


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36. Kafka integration

Hotspots and ISP services 1. Support for most of the Access points and controllers gateways on the

market. 2. Support for most of BRAS on the market.

Example: Cisco, Cisco ISG, Juniper ERX, Redback, Huawei ME-60 (and others), Mikrotik, MERAKI, Cambium, Radwin, UBNT, Altai, etc.

3. Support for most of Dial-up on the market. 4. HTTP/REST API for external systems and customization 5. Customer management. 6. Supports WiFi Access controller / access gateways:

For example: Mikrotik, Ruckus, Altai, Cambium CnPilot and ePMP, Radwin, UBNT, Ruckus Zone Director, Nomadix, Aruba, HP Curve, Motorola WING5, DD-WRT based, Chillispot, BlueSocket, etc.

7. EAP-SIM and EAP-AKA for Wifi Offloading. 8. Network device / CPE monitoring module via ping

VOIP – VOICE module 1. Support for most of VOIP gateways on the market – e.g. Cisco VSA. 2. Support for multi-session calls using balance management (Quota

management). 3. HTTP/REST API for external systems and customization.

Wimax Module 1. WiMAX Forum standards compliant 2. AAA fully 16e NWG 1.4 Stage 3:

Authentication and authorization EAP-TTLS and TLS for authentication. Integration with leading ASN-gateways partners IP Based and Flow Based accounting

Hotlining with CoA (Change of Authorization)

Disconnection using POD (packet of disconnect) Descriptors and VLAN support

Wimax Prepaid application

3. Supports 16d using any BRAS or access controller.


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Mobile 3G Module 1. 3GPP standards compliant 2. Support for most of GGSN gateways on the market. 3. Support for most of PDSN gateways on the market. 4. Special APN module for GRPS sessions. 5. EAP-SIM and EAP-AKA for Wifi 3G offloading. 6. Production among other with: Cisco PDSN & GGSN, Huawei PDSN &

GGSN, ZTE PDSN, Tricomtek. 7. Support YATE 8. EAP-SIM and EAP-AKA for Wifi 3G offloading. – EAP-SIM Module

Diameter Server Module - Diameter + Policy control Module

1. 3GPP standards compliant for LTE charging 2. Diameter server with support for Ro/Rf – Dynamic Charging 3. Diameter server with support for Gx/Gy – Policy Control 4. Diameter server with support for S6a – HSS 5. Diameter server with support for SWx – HSS 6. Diameter server with support for Rx/Cx – VOLTE 7. EPC core supports for multiple vendors, e.g: YATE, Neragon, Atran, Telrad,

Cisco, Baicells, ZTE, Athonet, IPLOOK, Star solutions, Adax and many more

MVNO 1. 3GPP standards compliant for 2G/3G & LTE charging 2. Data, Voice, SMS charging 3. Support light and full MVNO. 4. YATE fully pre-integrated for full MVNO. 5. Real-time roaming charging. 6. Self Care and Portal to refill. 7. Interfaces to integrate with any MNO (RADIUS, Diameter, JASON, other) 8. Integration with SMSC using SMPP+ 9. Integration with USSD 10. Our own HHS or integrate with external.


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VOICE Wholesale Monitoring and Interconnect (Optional module)

Support for most of voice Softswitches gateways on the market.

Works for Mobile as well and VOIP.

Prepaid Peering – charging and limiting multi-session calls using balance

management (Quota management).

HTTP API for external systems and customization.

High call capacity.

Unlimited rate tables.

Real time monitoring& alerts.

Each wholesale customer is defined by special technical prefix.

Group of prefixes to Trunk Groups.

Group of prefixes to Providers.

Group of prefixes to Sales Person.

Hourly operational report to detect traffic problems (e.g. low ASR).

Daily operational report to detect traffic problems (e.g. low ASR).

Termination/origination Failures cause report.

Usage reports that include the rounding, rounded minutes and cost per

destination.

Accounting financial reports per wholesalers.

Provider’s reports.

Provider’s self care to view its usage and CDR.

Salesman reports.

Providers self care module to view its wholesaler’s usage and income.

Searches and breakdowns by: Between days, per destination, per Tech Prefixes,

Providers and Salesman.


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PCRF – Aradial Policy Control (Optional Module)

Policy Control quota management

Advanced AAA – RADIUS and Diameter

Support Policy 3GPP standard

Advanced dynamic policies for active users

o Disconnect

o Redirect

o Change of QoS parameters

Send balance notifications via email and SMS

Fast definition of Policy rules, actions and step

Handles various users events and notifications

Periodic QoS - for dynamically changing the QoS of online sessions according to time of day.

Basic applications:

o Fair Usage

o Time of Day / Day of Week

o Promotions

o Booster

o Bill Shock

Use cases:

o Smart Limits / Capping

o Fair Use

o Enhanced User Experience (sending notifications)

o Advanced offering to users based on time, location, accumulated usage,

app, attributes, profile

o Bandwidth on Demand including booster

o Services/QoS Differentiation

o Bill Shock prevention

o Time of Day/Day of Week

o Promotions

o Location-based Policies

o Zone Charging


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o Any attribute or subscriber parameter based Policies

o User-defined Service Schedules/Parental Controls

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