$BEFORE_TIT2Additional features$AFTER_TIT2
The system allows to assign rate plan to each service which can be provided to a partner. It may be a traffic transmission service or any equipment leasing service (lines, trunks, ports at the switch etc.). Within this solution the rate plan is always associated with the service.
The main rate plan unit used for traffic cost calculation is a direction which consists of a set of the national and (or) international long distance prefixes. The system also supports the feature allowing to specify prefixes for free, paid and special phones which are considered as directions. You may specify the service rates using individual currency for each direction. This currency is not used for calculations, it is used for specifying the sample parameters and on the traffic report generation.
The solution considers each CDR as being the incoming and outgoing one at the same time, and the call type itself (incoming, outgoing, forwarded) doesn't effect on the traffic cost selection. The incoming and outgoing legs are determined based on the fields associated with incoming and outgoing trunk groups. The same trunk can be used both for the incoming and outgoing traffic transmission. Both incoming and outgoing traffics may have the common prefix assigned.
Each call is processed twice: first - by the incoming leg, and second - by the outgoing leg. You may assign different rate plans to be used for the call processing by incoming and outgoing legs. The system also supports the capability to associate different directions with incoming and outgoing legs in the rate plans: incoming leg can be associated with one direction and outgoing leg - with another.
You may specify individual call duration rounding rules to be used for each direction (free seconds, connection establishing time etc.), individual hours plan (i.e. you may individually specify times of day, working and non-working days, rounding method and unit).
The bottom level of rate plan is used for specifying the traffic cost. You may individually specify the traffic cost for each time of day associated with the certain direction. The system is capable to calculate the cost only of the certain accumulated volume of calls, the cost of one call can't be calculated.
The traffic costs are created and stored in the two-dimensional table, which "dimensions" are so called summing groups. This table can be a degenerate one, i.e. it can be a one-dimensional or contain only one value.
On the CDR processing the system accumulates statistics (call volumes) for each time of day specified for each direction. All other data is calculated on the report generation. The traffic cost specified for the certain time of day can be applied both to the full volume and to its part only ("by steps"). The calculation method must be specified for each direction individually. Operator may use table form, references to formulas or both of them for the traffic cost specification and be free in the traffic cost and factor interpretation. $BILLING_RIGHT_1