The main advantage of the RealEast® Billing System RBS1000 is its ability to support billing for multiple services over multiple access technologies. Extremely light weight, flexible and efficient core of the RBS1000 database provides unlimited possibilities for functionality growth and modular design. The database contains all necessary information about customers, providers, resellers, rates and settings.
The system has the following advantages:
Unlimited number of both personalized customer accounts
Unlimited number of anonymous calling card holders. The accounts can be either pre-paid or post-paid.
Unlimited number of tariffs, services and service groups
Flexible support of discounts and restrictions
Support of RADIUS protocol for billing of telephony services
Support of NetFlow for billing of IP-traffic
The advantages of RealEast® Billing System RBS1000
RBS1000 implementation provides the following unique possibilities:
Considerably simplifies all the billing processes and related activity
Provides powerful base for the introduction of new services, flexible tariff plans, etc.
Concentrate all the traffic accounting tasks in one central point
Examples of Usage
RBS1000 can have a number of useful applications, most important are described below.
Figure 1: RealEast RBS1000® Billing System diagram
Billing of third-party systems using RADIUS protocol
RBS1000 provides billing of third-party telephony systems by means of RADIUS protocol. RADIUS packets are gathered by RealTime Server and collected in Data Repository.
IP-traffic billing with NetFlow protocol
RBS1000 provides billing of IP-traffic usage by means of NetFlow (CISCO) protocol. Net Flows are gathered by NetFlow Server and collected in Data Repository.
RBS1000 - integral part of RealEast solutions
RBS1000, being one of the core products of RealEast software product suite, can operate as integral part for other higher-level telecom solutions. That means that provider can use it as a basement for further revenue generating applications, such as:
RealEast IP-Office/Virtual Office - powerful IP-Centrex/Hosted-PBX system (see www.ip-office.com)
RealEast CCP solution - calling card platform with a set of advanced features
RealEast VoIP-Center* solution - Exchange for direct trading among Enterprises, ASPs and IP-telephony carriers
Specifications
Supported protocols
1
RADIUS (RFC2865)
2
NNetFlow (version 1 and 5)
CDR management
1
Importing from text or Excel files (off-line)
2
CDRs may be written in runtime from a third party system (on-line)
Tariff Management
1
Arbitrary number of services, service groups and tariff plans
2
Discounts may depend upon call duration, time, calendar, accumulated registers
System Management and Control Capabilities
1
Software operation management using configuration files
2
Operators and Administrators interfaces (Windows OS), WEB interface for customers
