Cerillion Launches Real Time, Rules Based Mediation System
London, 5th November 2003 – Convergent CRM and Event Based Billing specialist, Cerillion Technologies, has announced a new, real time, rules based mediation platform for fixed, mobile, IP and converged networks. It has been specifically designed to work with pre-pay platforms, as well as other network elements, to provide a mediation solution for pre-pay / post pay converged operations.
The new Cerillion Mediator can process a wide variety of event record formats, applying user defined rules to perform data mapping, error checking, validation and record consolidation, ultimately producing a common internal format before output. It can also correlate multiple events to create one single, billable record.
The Mediator can receive and manipulate usage records from a wide variety of different sources in real time, including:
- Fixed network event records
- Mobile network event records
- IP event records
- Roaming records (e.g. TAP)
- Manually generated or amended usage records
- External network usage information
The Cerillion Mediator can output data configured to suit the needs of downstream applications such as rating and billing. It can also filter usage record output streams by type to suit different applications. This, for example, allows only roaming usage records to be output to a particular application.
Mediator has already been tested in use with equipment from a variety of network vendors, including Ericsson, Siemens, Lucent, Alcatel and GPT systems.
Said Business Development Director, Guy O’Connor: “The rules based architecture gives us a mediation solution that is ideally suited to converged, real time and cost sensitive applications. New data streams can be easily and quickly incorporated using the rules engine. This allows the system to change seamlessly as an operator’s network itself evolves.”
Said Louis Hall, CEO of Cerillion Technologies Ltd: “Mediation is a vital part of any OSS solution. Mediator allows us to cope with a wide variety of inputs in real time and at a realistic cost. This makes it an ideal answer for the multi service operator”
The system has already been ordered for implementation by two European operators.
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