What does Huawei OCS do?

OCS (Online Charging System, Online Charging System),

OCS: There are ways to make money in 3G era.

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In order to support the rapid development of 3G services, operators must create a real-time, accurate, flexible and supportive new billing system.

With the advent of 3G era, operators actively carry out full-service operation. 3G supports clearer voice communication, and can develop colorful value-added services such as mobile Internet access, online games, mobile TV and location navigation. In order to support the rapid development of 3G services, operators must create a real-time, accurate, flexible and supportive new billing system.

Billing demand in 3G era

At present, there are two main charging modes for major domestic operators: first, mobile operators provide charging support for voice, SMS, MMS and other services; Second, fixed-line operators provide billing support for fixed-line and PHS. The billing platforms of these services are isolated from each other. Nowadays, with the development of 3G, services are evolving in the direction of diversification, personalization, broadband and FMC. The existing billing model has been difficult to meet the development needs of operators, which greatly restricts the further development of telecom operators.

In addition, with the convergence of networks, especially the popularity of IP-based soft switching and IMS networks, more and more business types put forward higher requirements for billing systems. Operators need to build a new billing system to effectively support the rapid development of 3G market, and timely launch new tariffs, new products and bundled marketing of various services. In this context, the integrated billing system came into being, and its billing ability realized the perfect combination of real-time and integration.

Real-time: The disadvantage of the traditional BOSS quasi-real-time billing system is that the risk of arrears is difficult to control, which increases the risk coefficient of operators' operation and makes it difficult for users to obtain the most real-time account information. Operators and their partners can't query and analyze all kinds of business data in real time, can't keep abreast of the latest market trends, and can't respond to users' needs quickly, thus affecting operators' market expansion.

Integration: The biggest feature of the integrated billing system is the integration of four aspects. The first is the integration of users, that is, the integration of user brands and payment methods; The second is business integration, that is, to realize product bundling and cross-preferential treatment across businesses, products and users, and to realize the perfect combination of business operation and billing strategy; Third, the integration of charging modes to achieve the integration of multiple charging modes; The fourth is the integration of charging objects, that is, the integration of prepaid and post-paid.

OCS becomes the first choice of 3G billing system.

The new generation converged billing solution OCS (online charging system) is one of the most important components in the 3GPP network architecture. OCS, based on 3GPP standard and related telecom technical specifications, is considered to be a real-time billing system with real-time, flexibility, high availability, high stability and easy expansion, which can fully meet the billing requirements of 3G services of telecom operators. OCS integrated billing system not only realizes real-time billing and credit control, but also strongly supports the whole network and full-service operation of network integration, service integration and terminal integration.

Based on the design principle of separating call control from charging control and charging control from charging application, the logical architecture of OCS system is divided into main functional modules such as access adaptation layer, real-time charging engine, pricing strategy library, real-time transaction control, real-time accounting processing and system management, which not only shields the complexity of the network, but also meets the development requirements of network integration, business integration and user integration.

OCS adopts mature memory database technology, which ensures the strict requirements of real-time and performance in various application environments. The business logic of OCS adopts flexible billing engine scheduling technology, and the pricing rules adopt customizable strategy base, which provides a strong guarantee for operators to deploy new services quickly. At the same time, OCS provides standard API interface and industry standard network access layer protocol, which has good openness.

The core component of OCS is converged billing engine (CBE), which integrates a series of products such as SCP, ISMP, CRM and intermediary, and forms an end-to-end converged billing solution. The open interface between products makes the whole solution very flexible, and can provide a whole set of solutions and different products for operators according to their actual needs. By cooperating with third-party products, the online billing function can be realized, which can meet the needs of different operators for the construction of integrated billing system to the greatest extent.

OCS, which is favored by operators, has the following technical advantages: full service support, OCS supports voice, data, SMS and various value-added services; Highly flexible, supports dynamic rule engine, and has the mechanism of flexible extension of attributes; Real-time, using mature memory database and efficient bus technology; High scalability, supporting the distributed deployment of core modules and extending external interfaces; High reliability, using the strategy of hot standby and failover, the reliability has reached the requirements of 99.999% carrier-class business platform; Easy to maintain, OCS adopts graphical management interface, and the connection with network management system adopts standard interface.

The industry-leading Huawei OCS solution has been commercialized worldwide in recent years. The OCS practices in Etisalat, AIS, Mobile-8 in Indonesia and Novator in Iceland prove that operators can not only develop their business quickly and win market opportunities, but also reduce the pre-payment investment of traditional intelligent networks, effectively reduce the total cost of support systems, and more importantly, greatly improve the user experience, improve business support and service levels, and maximize the return on investment of operators.

China Telecom builds OCS.

On February 22nd, 2008, 65438+ China Telecom's mobile service brand "Tianyi" was officially numbered. Shang Bing, Party Secretary and Deputy General Manager of China Telecom, said: "This is a major event in the history of China telecom industry and a milestone in the full-service operation of China Telecom." .

"Tianyi" brand is a mobile business brand launched by China Telecom on the basis of integrating mobile, fixed-line and broadband services to meet the needs of users for comprehensive information services, aiming at creating mobile communication in the Internet era. "The chat number is it, the mailbox is it, and broadband can roam. This is Tianyi. " Many people are deeply impressed by the advertisement "Tianyi" endorsed by Deng Chao. From February 22, 2008 to March 3, 20091,China Telecom will launch a nationwide unified promotion activity of "adding wings to welcome spring", and will launch theme packages such as VIP plan, interconnection plan, campus plan and gift package plan according to the consumption habits of different customer groups to provide various special services.

In order to cater to the market strategy and business promotion of China Telecom, China Telecom started OCS construction. At present, China Telecom has completed the construction of OCS systems in Yunnan and Guangdong, and China Telecom will build OCS systems in other provinces one after another, laying a solid foundation for China Telecom to carry out large-scale convergence services.

In mid-May 2008, Yunnan Telecom started the OCS commercial system construction project, and Huawei undertook this construction task. With the joint efforts of Huawei and Yunnan Telecom, the system was put into commercial use at the end of September and began to undertake broadband data services of Yunnan Telecom. As of June 5438+065438+ 10, Huawei has completed the docking of OCS system with all other network elements, and has the ability to undertake CDMA user billing on a large scale. Huawei OCS system has won high praise from Yunnan Telecom for its good performance of no system failure, no system interruption and no user complaints for four consecutive weeks.

Besides Yunnan Telecom, Guangdong Telecom OCS system construction is another successful practice of Huawei in the field of China Telecom operation support. In September 2008, Huawei won the bid for Guangdong Telecom OCS system; On June 5438+February 1, 2008, Huawei OCS system successfully handed over 2160,000 users of Guangdong Telecom's CDMA existing network, and will continue to carry its fixed-line and broadband users, and gradually assume the heavy responsibility of comprehensive billing of Guangdong Telecom in the future. Guangdong Telecom has built the first commercial business hall in China Telecom that uses OCS system to carry CDMA users on a large scale.

With the development of CDMA network construction in China Telecom, OCS system will play a key role in the core billing platform and actively promote the full-service operation of China Telecom. For telecom operators, how to use the opportunity of 3G and full-service operation to realize the innovation of business, products, marketing and services? The practice of China Telecom shows that the basis of seizing the initiative in 3G market is that operators should establish a real-time and integrated billing system as soon as possible and make good use of money.

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