The Challenge

Billing system suppliers need to provide operators with a more accurate understanding of content and application usages, in order to optimize billing: e.g. charge both based on traffic consumed and according to type of content.

Qosmos Solution

The Qosmos technology extracts information on content usage at the finest granular level (per user, per service, or per application) enabling billing suppliers to generate extremely accurate charging and billing information. This is made possible by extracting a wide range of relevant information such as content, volume, sender, receiver, caller, callee, phone number, mobile ID, URL, etc.

Benefits

For Billing Solution Vendors

• IPDR & CDR generation at network, service, application or user level
• Revenue management, intelligent usage policy management, subscriber usage monitoring
• Ability to provide advanced, differentiated OSS / BSS solution
• Guaranteed accuracy for multi-service billing
• Fast time to market and cost-efficiency by sourcing best-of-breed network intelligence technology

For Operators

• In-depth understanding of customer behavior increases ARPU and reduces churn
• Reduced fraud and revenue leakage

Example of Implementation

Information Extracted

Recognized Applications and Protocols (sample)

• Audio/Video: H.323, RTP, RTCP, SIP, MGCP, MMSE, RTSP, Shoutcast, Yahoo Video, msn Video, SCCP, etc.
• VoIP: H.323, SIP, RTP
• Instant Messaging: AIM, msn, Skype, Yahoo, Google Talk, QQ, etc.
• Network: IP, TCP, FTP, SNMP, etc.
• Web applications: Dailymotion, Google, eBay, Google Earth, HTTP, MySpace, Wikipedia, YouTube, etc.
• Webmail: Gmail, Hotmail, Livemail, Squiremail, Yahoo mail, etc.

Extracted Information (sample)

• Content type, volume, sender, receiver, caller, called party, phone number, MSISDN, IMSI, URL, MIME type, etc.