Based on a highly customizable and flexible architecture Adv-
anced Local Loop Billing is designed to handle every billing
requirement, a few of which are: various Prepaid & Postpaid
billing schemes, Flexible billing plan/Tariff creation, Enhanced
role based security, MLM (Multilevel Marketing), Merchant Gate-
way Integration, Multi-vendor, packet based billing etc. This
adaptive and flexible architecture makes it suitable for NGN
accounting and billing requirements.

Please read the "Converged Billing for Local Loop" white paper
for more details on Local Loop Billing solution.

This is a carrier grade billing product only for very high
end deployments. It covers Billing for:

• LL and WLL (Local Loop and Wireless Local Loop)
• LDI (Long Distance International)

Being aware of the implications arising during the transition phases of
NGN networks Advanced VoIP Billing System also takes into consideration the
following important issues:

• Support for a large variety of switches from different vendors
• Real Time Accounting, Authorization and Accounting
• End customer and wholesaler billing
• Standard and Cooperative billing

The following diagram explains how the Advanced Local Loop Billing System works:




The following diagram explains how the Advanced Wireless Local Loop Billing System works:




All major hardware vendors are supported including:

• Nortel
• Siemens
• Alcatel
• Lucent
• Ericsson
• Cisco
• Quintum
• Huawei
• Vocaltech

Most other hardware vendors are also supported. Please contact our technical sales team for more details.

Supported Databases:

• Microsoft SQL Server 2000
• ORACLE

Supported Operating Systems:

• Microsoft Windows 2000/2003/XP
• Linux/Unix
• Solaris

Features

1. Multicurrency:

AVB (Advanced VoIP Billing) supports multiple currencies in the system, conversion rates can be set by the billing administrators and user can pay in local currency of their locations.


2. Prepaid/Postpaid Billing:

Both prepaid and postpaid billing models are supported in Advanced VoIP Billing. In postpaid billing users don't get blocked whereas in prepaid billing users get disconnected and blocked whenever their current balance becomes less than their credit limit. Usually prepaid users have zero credit limits.


3. Invoice System:

Complete invoice generation and delivery system is provided with Advanced VoIP Billing. You can make the system generate invoices automatically and manually, and can be emailed to users. Also your users can see their invoice history and pending invoices online.


4. Payment Gateways:

AVB supports almost all credit card payment gateways, for example Authorize.Net, Link Point, PaymenGateway.Net, Worldpay, Verisign and many others. Users may register themselves through Credit Card and their account can be recharged via credit card on some threshold balance.


5. Tax Handling:

Efficient handling of different kinds of taxes.


6. Locations/Sub Offices:

Supports different geographical locations, marketing outlets and provides complete reporting of each location.


7. Agents/Multilevel marketing:

AVB includes the Multilevel Marketing. A Company can have many agents working independent of each other with private labeling of software look and feel.


8. Flexible Ratings:

Unlimited number of pricing plans, unlimited number of rate tables with unlimited number of locations. Ability to rate depending on the time of day and day of the week. AVB flexibility allows providers to capture a larger customer base by providing the best possible pricing for each target market group.


9. Origin/Access Number based Billing:

Rating scheme can differ on the basis of Origin or Access Numbers.


10. Prepaid (Scratch Cards) Calling Cards:

Automated cards management tool provides full management of cards from generation to consumptions.


11. Web-Based Administration:

100% web based administration, easily managed and accessed from any where in the world with appropriate access level security combined with SSL.


12. Inbuilt RADIUS Server:

Integrated Advanced Radius Server, capable enough to handle thousands of simultaneous calls.


13. Customer Self Care:

Fully customizable customer self care web interfaces greatly reduce support calls and expenses while increasing customer satisfaction.


14. Origination, Termination and Wholesales:

Supports originators, terminators and wholesale dealers and provides a comprehensive mechanism to manage all customers within billing application.


15. Payment Clearing reports and Accounting:

More than 50 comprehensive reports are provided for different kind of viewers.


16. Multilingual:

XML based interface in your local language.


17. Email Alerts:

Different kind of email alerts (low credit, account going to expire, welcome message) can be sent to end customer.


18. Logo Branding:

Ability to brand services under different company names and, thus, seamlessly add resellers for the services sold.

Carrier Class Benefits

1. Reliability:

High availability with low memory and CPU utilization.


2. Scalability:

Providers can increase their customer base exponentially with minimal expense for additional employees or additional hardware.


3. Integration:

Complete integration with any CDR based switch or network. Supports real time authentication and billing for prepaid scenario. H.323, SIP, MGCP, Megaco, H.248, SS7 CDRs.


4. Billing Strategies:

Rating can vary on the basis of Destination, Origins or on the basis of other Call Attributes.


5. Backup Policy:

Both Hot (with 0% failover) and Cold backups are supported, Application can also run as Primary, Secondary setup in case of failure of primary machine, secondary one can take charge of every thing.


6. Load Balancing:

Different components can be installed on different machines; RADIUS, Web Server and Database can reside on single machine or can be installed in a distributed environment.


7. Corporate Billing:

It can create multiple child accounts under a parent (corporate) account (multiple PIN numbers against one account number). Payments and usage is done against the account number, which means their current balance is calculated at one point. Whenever any user (PIN) of type corporate gets locked all the users of that corporate account get locked and whenever payment is received all the users of that particular corporate account get unlocked. Also their usage is calculated separately and can be viewed separately.


8. Application Security:

Role based security implemented in Advanced VoIP Billing. All the functions of the software are divided into different tasks. System Administrator can combine different tasks to create different roles and these roles are then assigned to different billing system administrators. For example Administrator can create a role with rights to only view payments received and then can create user XYZ for help desk and finally he can assign the role to that user allowing him to only view the payment received but not to modify it.


9. Compatibility:

Fully compatible with Quintum, Nortel, CISCO and any other RADIUS or CDRs supported hardware. Tested with MERA, GnuGK, ShoutIP and also supports any RADIUS or CDRs enabled soft switches.


10. Fault Tolerant:

A complete fault-tolerant system using a stand-by backup and auto-recovery.


11. Auto-Maintenance Service:

This service should keep cleaning the database for old records and logs archiving and removal.