Online Charging Platform (vOCS)

General introduction

The ONLINE CHARGING PLATFORM (VOCS) is a convergent multi-service charging platform for mobile services from 2G to 5G, fixed services and digital services such as MySign, ePASS, Mobile Money, Cloud Charging and AI Charging. The system is deployed on telecom-grade cloud computing technology (NFV-MANO), supporting automation in operations and exploitation. The system architecture is deployed in a dual-site active-active model with disaster recovery capability. The system has been deployed in 10 countries with a capacity of 193 million subscribers.

Feature

Business: Supports prepaid, postpaid and hybrid subscriber models; Supports mobile, fixed and digital services; Supports instant event delivery related to subscribers for business campaigns such as data purchase, package upgrade, top-up, promotion programs and SMS/USSD notifications; Supports package renewal via bank funding sources; Supports MNP, Antispam, MCA and other solutions; Integrates PCF to manage data access bandwidth in one place and avoid overlap or data account inconsistency between CHF and PCF
Integration: Supports integration with Digital BSS platforms following the TM Forum OpenAPI structure; Supports charging APIs over SS7, Diameter and REST API on HTTP/2/HTTPS; Supports event-based and session-based charging
GENERAL INTRODUCTION The ONLINE CHARGING PLATFORM (VOCS) is a convergent multi-service charging platform for mobile services from 2G to 5G, fixed services and digital services such as MySign, ePASS, Mobile Money, Cloud Charging and AI Charging. The system is deployed on telecom-grade cloud computing technology (NFV-MANO), supporting automation in operations and exploitation. The system architecture is deployed in a dual-site active-active model with disaster recovery capability. The system has been deployed in 10 countries with a capacity of 193 million subscribers. TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Technology: Cloud Native, IMDG, Big Data. Performance: 100 million subscribers/site with 310,000 TPS. Latency: ~5 milliseconds. Reliability and availability: 99.999%. Standards: NFV ETSI Release 4 and 3GPP Release 16. FEATURES Business: Supports prepaid, postpaid and hybrid subscriber models; Supports mobile, fixed and digital services; Supports instant event delivery related to subscribers for business campaigns such as data purchase, package upgrade, top-up, promotion programs and SMS/USSD notifications; Supports package renewal via bank funding sources; Supports MNP, Antispam, MCA and other solutions; Integrates PCF to manage data access bandwidth in one place and avoid overlap or data account inconsistency between CHF and PCF; Integration: Supports integration with Digital BSS platforms following the TM Forum OpenAPI structure; Supports charging APIs over SS7, Diameter and REST API on HTTP/2/HTTPS; Supports event-based and session-based charging; Operations: Supports template-based policy declaration, simplifying policy declaration and management by test/active status to prevent incorrect policy configuration and enable easy testing; Supports a CD model to simplify feature upgrades by scenario with one-click impact; Automation: self-healing POD, CNF/VIM isolation, auto site switching and auto rollback

Specification

Technology

Cloud Native, IMDG, Big Data

Standards

NFV ETSI Release 4 and 3GPP Release 16

Latency

~ 5 milisecond

Reliability and availability

99.999%