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Billing for IP and Applications
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Course Duration: 1 day
Course Code: PWL122
Course Description:
The world's telecommunications network was built for voice, billed by time and distance. This remained true for over 100 years. There is now far more data by volume in the carrier's core networks and much of this is IP. Traditional billing doesn't fit IP and new paradigms are needed.
This two-day introduction offers an examination of this important area, focusing on IP, its applications and the challenges of IP on the billing industry today. Awareness of mobile IP billing and how it impacts fixed billing systems is included.
Prerequisites:
Delegates should have a good understanding of communications and core billing principles.
Prerequisite courses:
Telecoms Fundamentals For Professionals
Billing in Telecoms
Follow on courses:
Billing for Multiple Products and Services
Interconnect Accounting and Revenue Assurance
This course includes the following modules:
Food Chains - Introduction
- This section indicates the differences between voice and data and indicated why the conventional billing chain is not suited to IP and IP-based applications.
- - Circuits and Packets
- - Connection Oriented and Connectionless
- - Enter IP and its impact on Billing
- - IP Food Chains
The Internet Protocol and Data Networks
- After establishing a framework to talk about data communications, this section describes IP and how it is carried in networks.
- The OSI Reference Model
- Network Access methods
- - Dial-up/ISDN
- - ADSL
- - ADSL Billing Models
- Characteristics of IP
- IP Addresses
- IPv6
- TCP and UDP
- Building IP Networks
- - Routers and Bridges
- LANs, WANs and Metro Networks
- Traditional Carrier Data Communications
- - X.25/Frame Relay/ATM
- Core Networks
- “The Internet should be free!”
Structure of the Internet
- Everyone is assumed to have used the Internet for email and browsing. This section examines what makes these facilities work.
- Internet Service Providers
- Interconnect for ISPs
- Web Hosting
- Revenue share models
- Access Protocols
- Peering Points - LINX
- The Internet's Directory – DNS
- The Root Servers
- Security - Firewalls
Voice Over IP
- Why maintain two corporate networks, one each for voice and data when everything is really data? Or is it not quite that simple?
- Turning Voice into IP Packets
- Echo Cancellation
- Alternative Signalling Systems:
- H.323
- SIP
- MGCP/Megaco
- Quality of Service (QoS)
- Technology: Media Gateways and Softswitches.
- Pricing and Billing for VoIP
IP Services and Applications
- This section looks at what applications and services are built on top of IP to add value to it. The concept of getting away from transmission-level billing is introduced.
- Mobile IP and Wireless Internet
- Unified Messaging
- Multimedia IP Applications, Video Conferencing
- E-Commerce
- Virtual Private Networks (VPN)
- Billing Implications of these
IP Billing Process Components: Mediation, Revenue Assurance, Rating and Billing
- This section explains the billable elements required for IP billing, and the complexities involved with measuring QoS.
- ISP Billing Models
- IP Pricing Models
- - Volume versus Content
- Impact of QoS/SLA
- What can go wrong?
- Billing for Real Time (and Prepaid) Services
Wireless IP, 2.5G and 3G
- As GPRS (The General Packet Radio System) and 3G become realities, their billing impact is examined. As these evolve towards all-IP (including voice) their interaction with other networks will change..
- The Basis of 3G - GPRS
- GPRS Data Billing Models
- Tariff models
- CDRs
- Roaming and Payment flows for mobile
- Location-Based Services
- Charging Principles
- Quality
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London |
1 days |
£595 |
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25 - 25 |
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18 - 18 |
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