Aradialpresentation 2009 Converged [compatibility Mode]
High-Performance RADIUS Server and
Converged Prepaid & Postpaid Billing
ISP, VOIP, Wimax, Mobile & Wifi Providers
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Agenda
About Aradial Technologies
Key Customers
Aradial RADIUS Server
Aradial WiMAX
Aradial VoIP Integrations
RADIUS Features
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About Aradial Technologies
• Established in May 1997
• Designer and provider of Billing, AAA and
Policy control servers for IP services.
• Targets multiple vertical markets,
primarily ISP, WiMAX, wireless LAN, VOIP,
Cable/MSO and mobile
• Experienced personnel from top
networking and billing companies
• Private, self funded, profitable
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Key Customers
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ISP & WiMAX
• Nepal Telecom
• GhanaTel – Vodafone
• iBurst - South Africa
• MTN Rwanda
• BNSL – India – ISP
• Sahara Net – Saudi Arabia
• NetRozTelecom - IRAQ
• Cable & Wireless – broadband ISP
• Smile 012
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VoIP
• Net4India
– VoIP provider with 2.5 M subscribers
• GCS - IDT
– VoIP termination provider in USA
– 120 million calls per month
• O-Fone - Mobile VoIP
• VocalTec – Multiple deployments
• Globe Wireless – USA/UK
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Mobile
• Maingate – M2M
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300,000 mobile subscribers in Sweden
• NSSL – UK
• KDDI – UK/JAPAN
• STI – Mobile
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900,000 mobile subscribers in Indonesia
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Installation with FTS
• Telikom – PNG
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With Telrad and Amdocs
• SenTel Senegal Telecom
– With Amdocs
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Hotspots/WiFi Installed Base
Over 250 hotspots billing installed worldwide
• Interstate USA
• Namibia Telecom
• Bell Aliant Canada
• Angola Telecom
• Sealink Denmark
• MyPort Australia
• Enter Point USA
• Marcatel Mexico
• Paamul Mexico
• O'Fallon Wireless USA
• SmartLink Kuwait
• CSD Internet Ltd. UK
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Aradial RADIUS /AAA
Server
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Aradial RADIUS Server
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High performance, fully-featured RADIUS server
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Supports any IP services
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Works on Windows, Solaris and Linux
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Compliant with RADIUS standards
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Scalable
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Multithreaded - horizontal
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Multiprocess - vertical
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High availability
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Easy provisioning
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Aradial RADIUS Server (Cont.)
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100% web-based interface for easy
connectivity from anywhere
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SSL security support
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Database support
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ODBC (Access, MS SQL, mySQL, Oracle)
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Native Oracle (OCI)
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LDAP
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NT & Active Directory user authentication
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Flat files
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Statistics and reporting modules
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Prepaid cards, bank and balance enforcement
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Architecture
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Typical High-Availability Deployment
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Aradial Supported IP Services
• Any broadband, BRAS, xDSL or cable
• WiMAX – WiMAX forum standard
• Mobile
– GSM: GPRS, WAP, MMS
– CDMA 2000 and 3GPP dictionaries
– PDSN 3GPP prepaid and postpaid
• Wireless LAN
• Wide Area Wireless basestations
• Mesh technologies
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Aradial Supported IP Services (Cont.)
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Soft switches and SIP proxy (Class 4/5)
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VocalTec
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Mailvision
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Teles
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AudioCodes
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RAD
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NextGK
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Asterisk
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Any other that supports standard SIP VSA
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VOIP gateways
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Cisco 53xx, 54xx,
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Quintum Tenor
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GNUGK and OpenSer
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IPTV using RADIUS
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Aradial Supported
WiFi Access Controllers
• Mikrotik OS – also reselling
• Colubris CN
• Nomadix
• ValuePoint, Planet, Zyxel
• Handlink
• Aruba Networks
• Griffin, Dlink, NetGear, Cisco and others
• Chillispot based
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Linksys - DD-WRT
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Ikarus OS
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MonoWall
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PfSense
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Buffalotech
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Aradial Supported Wide Area
Base stations
• Wavion Networks
• Includes beamforming technology
• Go Networks
• Includes beamforming technology
• Inspiair
• Xirrus
• Ruckus
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Typical Hotspot Deployment
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Aradial WiMAX
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WiMAX AAA/Radius and Billing
• WiMAX Forum standard compliant
• AAA supports 16d,16e NWG 1.2 Stage 3
including:
– Authentication and authorization
– EAP-TTLS for authentication adapted to the
WiMAX standard
– Integration with leading ASN gateway partners
– IP-based and flow-based accounting
– Mobile IP support
– Hotlining with CoA
– Wimax Prepaid application
– 16d support with all known BRAS
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WiMAX AAA/Radius and Billing
(Cont.)
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Real-time active session management
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Scalability and real-time AAA functionalities
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Cost-effective solution and fast ROI
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Billing and ordering:
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All services, including broadband data, VoIP, voice, IPTV, VoD
for WiMAX
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Allows controlling users balance, time and traffic in real time
and with zero leakage
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Advanced user management for subscribers
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Advance creation of prepaid cards
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Self ordering and provisioning redirection to
activation portal at zero balance and plans
purchase via the Spotngo portal
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WiMAX AAA/Radius and Billing
(Cont.)
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Multiple resources - allow users to have multiple
user IDs on the same account (for example,
multiple phone numbers and data service
usernames connected to the same account)
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Integration with external billing systems and
future systems - advanced APIs for external
billing integration, for both real-time events and
provisioning
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Support of the following radio vendors (among
others): Runcom, Alvarion, Ipaxiom, Soma,
Motorola, Samsung, Redline, Nortel, Alcatel
Lucent, Navini, Aperto, YmaxTelecom, and
Winenetworks
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Aradial VoIP
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Prepaid VoIP with Aradial
• Aradial VoIP supported services:
– IVR calling
– Direct calling using ANI/calling cards
– Username
– Peering
– Termination and origination
• Two charging models:
– Single session – entire balance is allocated for
the user during the session
– Multisession – the session is split into time
quotas for all users that use a single balance
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Prepaid VoIP with Aradial (Cont.)
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Centralized authentication and accounting for
all routers or gateways
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Converged IP services: VoIP, dialup, WiFi,
IPTV and ISP broadband/DSL support on the
same platform
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SSL secured HTML-based administration
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Dealer/business partner management –
dealers can manage their own users
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Extended HTML UI for user database and
user groups
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High-performance and reliable server
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Prepaid VoIP with Aradial (Cont.)
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Scalable to handle millions of users and
concurrent sessions on low-end hardware
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Support of most of the VoIP gateways
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Self-care user module
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User and calling-card management, rating,
import and export from/to CSV files
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Balance, duration and traffic enforcement
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User concurrence enforcement and view of
concurrent calls from the administration tool
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Prepaid VoIP with Aradial (Cont.)
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Support for multisession calls using balance
management (quota management)
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HTTP API for external systems and
customizations
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Optional integration with SNMP-based NMSs
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Multiple admin types
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Admin activity tracking
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External billing system interface using stored
procedures or CORBA
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Prepaid VoIP & Calling Cards
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Calling-card based prepaid billing
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Calling-card generation, import and export
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Username or ANI based (caller ID) prepaid VoIP billing
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Rating according to call destination, time of day, day of
week
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Different rounding intervals per tariff or per destination
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Call setup cost
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Replenishing API or voucher refilling with payment module.
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Support of multiple tariffs and destinations rating tables that
can be assigned to a calling card
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Session and summary reports per calling card, system,
destination and period
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Optional module – termination billing including wholesale
credit limit and fraud control
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Architecture
SIP Application
Aradial Prepaid /
Server
Radius System
(w/Internal IVR)
Prepaid
Timers
Real-Time AAA
External media
Server
SIP
Subscriber
Call
Control
Database
SoftSwitch
PSTN
PSTN
VoIP (Conversation)
Media
Media
Gateway
IP Network
Gateway
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Spotngo Payment
Module
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Spotngo Enhanced Vouchers
and Credit-Card Payment Module
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Plan/tariff management (time, traffic and expiration)
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PIN generation and management using plans
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User signup from the portal using a PIN
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Refilling users with a new PIN (PIN attached to a tariff
plan with time, traffic or expiration)
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Refill by credit card
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Creating users with a credit card
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Configurable and customizable payment interface
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View/query payment history
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Secured portal (SSL)
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Secured PIN and plans management (SSL)
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Printing and exporting PINs to CSV files
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Customizable flows
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Aradial
Converged
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Aradial Converged
Prepaid & Postpaid, Multi IP Services
• Prepaid and postpaid subscribers
• Customer Managment
– Account – shared balance for users
– Users under account
– Resource/ANI/CPE defined per users
• Product catalog
– Price plans
– Offers using price plans
– Price plan
– Network profile provisioning
– One-time offers
– Add on offers
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Aradial Converged
Prepaid & Postpaid, Multi IP Services
• Web self care for users and accounts
– Users and passwords management
– Payments and invoices
– Purchase new offers and upgrades
• Public portal for self registration
• Trouble ticketing
• Account and user operation
– View financial transactions, sessions and calls
– Payment by credit card or PayPal
– Adjustments to invoices
– Manual payments – cash, checks
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Aradial Converged
Prepaid & Postpaid, Multi IP Services
• Invoicing
– Periodic automatic invoicing
– Invoicing sent by email
– XSL layout – branding
– Undo billing
• Flexible charging & rating
– Periodic RCs
– Usage charges
• Allowances
• Time of day and day of week
• Destination charging (mainly for VoIP)
– One-time charges
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Aradial Converged
Prepaid & Postpaid, Multi IP Services
• Automatic payment
– Error management
• Account Receivables (A/R)
– Manual, fast payment screen
– Credit card
– PayPal
• Accounting reports
– Invoicing
– Payment
– Operator statement, per-account statement
– Aging payment
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Aradial Converged
Prepaid & Postpaid, Multi IP Services
• CDRs processing & error management or
rating problems
• Business Partner / Reseller management
• Inventory management
– DID
– ANI
– MAC Address
– IP Address
• Voucher management
– Top-up vouchers
– Prepaid Cards for IP
– Calling Cards
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Add-On Policy Control and Interconnect
Policy Control
VoIP Interconnect
• Advanced dynamic
• VOIP interconnect/
policies for active users
termination accounting
– Disconnect
and reporting
– Redirect
– Change of QoS parameters
• Handles various users
events
• Customer care additions
– View & modify user details
• Quota policy
• QoS policy
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Main RADIUS
Features
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Overview
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Policy algorithms
– Handling RADIUS messages
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State server
– What is happening in the network
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Prepaid user monitoring
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User management
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Process monitoring
– Including SNMP MIBs and traps
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Load simulator to test the network
– Test any scenario for any equipment and user
type
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Policy Algorithm Mechanism
• Customizable handling flow for each
RADIUS message type
• Flow made of a chain of RADIUS
algorithms
• Core algorithms supplied with the product
– Authentication and Authorization algorithm
– Accounting algorithms
– RADIUS proxy algorithm
• New algorithms can be developed using
shared C++ libraries and/or TCL scripting
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Aradial AAA Features
• PAP and CHAP authentication
• EAP authentication
– EAP-PEAP, MD5, LEAP
– EAP-TTLS, TLS
– EAP-SIM and AKA (need integration with SS7)
• Digest, MS-Chap and MS-ChapV2
• Proxying to other RADIUS servers
– RFC-based RADIUS proxy
– iPass & other specialized proxy support
• Tunneling
– PPTP
– L2TP
• Policy algorithms
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Unique Functionality
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TCL scripting for policy algorithms
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Extended billing server connectivity API
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Grouping and subgrouping
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Persistent IP pools (support H/A)
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Bandwidth control per NAS model
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Metering (on external billing databases)
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Time and data accumulator
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Service suspension based on traffic per NAS model
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Blocking or changing QoS for groups in time-of-
day periods (for example, peak, offpeak
configurations)
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POD and CoA support
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Unique Functionality (Cont.)
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User management
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Generating users/prepaid cards
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Viewing sessions and summaries
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Exporting usage
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User self care
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Hotspots WiFi walled garden portal
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Customization of the portal per location
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Spotngo payment system
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Refillable vouchers
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Credit-card processing
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PayPal support
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Customization of Spotngo per location
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Integration with External Billing
Systems
• Advanced API for external online
charging/billing servers using CORBA
– Session duration limitation
– Data transfer limitations – directional limiting
supported
– Bandwidth limit using VSA RADIUS Attributes
– Quota-based access
– QoS and subscriber profile
• Integration using stored procedures calling
external databases
• Export usage to billing systems
• Enhanced provisioning APIs
• Internal support for traffic, duration metering &
QoS
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Typical Deployment Example
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