Unlike traditional telecommunication services, the new generation of next-generation data offerings—including VoIP, instant messaging, video services and group conferencing—require real-time connections between provisioning, service activation, billing systems and network elements. In addition, once deployed, these new services generate massive bursts of events. For operators attempting to use last-generation systems to handle this kind of business model, the inability to efficiently manage billing, mediation and services operation can result in significant lost revenue.

Enabling New Business Models

Kabira Charging™ is an open, standards-based, modular software product. It introduces flexibility and versatility into the billing mediation process chain by isolating IT applications from evolving network infrastructure, and vice versa. A carrier-class platform, it gives telecom network operators the ability to logically integrate packet and cell-based devices with traditional circuit services. Further, by effectively allowing the standardized integration of all network devices with business support systems, it enables a wide variety of new service and charging models.

The Performance To Handle Real-Time Services

In a network environment characterized by surges in traffic, systems need to support billing, mediation and service management that offers more performance, transactionality and intelligence than ever before. There is no other way to extract the correct events from packet sequences comprising real-time "chargeable events" without revenue loss. Proven in deployments worldwide, Kabira Charging provides the kind of flexible, scalable platform needed to deploy the universal mediation and usage management solutions needed for operating next-generation infrastructures. Enterprises working with Kabira Charging can:

• Reduce time and effort in rolling out VoIP services.
• Simplify usage-based billing for convergent service
• Enable detailed understanding of customer usage for segmentation and business intelligence.
• Deliver new technology through a distributed component architecture while integrating legacy environments for maximum return on assets.
• Minimize time and cost to support new services.
• Unify business intelligence, revenue assurance, service assurance and service delivery processes for maximum business agility.