Cisco ASR 5000 Series - Postpaid Billing in ECS

Enhanced Charging Service Overview
Postpaid Billing in ECS ▀
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Postpaid Billing in ECS
This section describes the postpaid billing that is used to implement off-line billing processing for a variety of end user
services.
The following figure shows a typical deployment of ECS for postpaid billing system.
Figure 186. Postpaid Billing System Scenario with ECS
Operator’s Transport
Network
Internet
System
running ECS
Rating
CGF
(optional)
Billing
AAA
Data
Warehouse
Mediation
CDR/xDR
Service
Platform
External CDR/
xDR Storage
System
Service
Platform
How ECS Postpaid Billing Works
ECS Postpaid Billing in GPRS/UMTS Networks
The following figure and steps describe how ECS works in a GPRS/UMTS network for postpaid billing.