Subscriber to Mediation is in our opinion one of the biggest risk points of the revenue chain since most of the source data used for billing is generated within it...
Network Assurance TCG Drivers (Subscriber to Switch)
TCGs were originally designed for the sole purpose of testing fixed and mobile networks. Many years have passed but TCGs remain as one of the preferred tools used by engineers looking to validate the correct operation of their networks. Some of the high level business drivers for using TCGs for network testing include:
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| - | Minimising potential customer Churn |
| The need to minimise potential customer churn through event failures and poor service quality. |
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| - | Identifying revenue generating opportunities |
| The need to identifying revenue generating opportunities by troubleshooting and improving weak areas of the network. |
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| - | Network and services roll outs |
| Supporting the roll outs of new technologies, platforms and services. |
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| - | Validating platform upgrades |
| Supporting the constant demand of validating services and interfaces before and after platform updates. |
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| - | Assessing network coverage |
| Mobile coverage analysis by means of drive testing. |
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Networks Assurance Solutions
Our unique Osprey End to End testing platform allows network engineers to automatically evaluate the performance of a wide variety of call scenarios and network technologies. In addition to generating the test events, Osprey includes a series of modules and engines which analyse each test event with the objective of qualifying the integrity of the network and the service under test. The output of these analysis engines is presented in a set of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that include test-specific drill downs that assist engineers and analyst in identifying the root cause(s) of issues. The following list includes just a small subset of some of these KPIs.
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| - Percentage of Failed Test Events |
| - Percentage of Network dropped Test Events |
| - Percentage of Test Events with missing audio path |
| - Percentage of SMS not delivered |
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Systems Assurance TCG Drivers (Subscriber to Mediation)
At Roscom we believe that a big proportion of revenue leakage can be traced back to the entry systems in the billing chain. TCGs play a major role in identifying multiple problems that can occur at this very important stage. This area (Subscriber to Mediation) is in our opinion one of the biggest risk points of the revenue chain since most of the source data used for billing is generated within it. The following list includes some of the key drivers for implementing a TCGs for systems assurance.
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| | - The need to validate the generation of CDRs at the various Switches |
| | - The need to validate key business rules between IN and MSCs |
| | - The need to validate the generation of Data xDRs |
| | - The need to validate the correct splitting and merging of xDRs |
| - The need to validate recorded calls duration by switches |
| | - The need to validate recorded byte counts |
| | - The need to validate call duration and byte count rounding rules |
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Systems Assurance Solutions
Osprey is the world's leading TCG platform for automatic xDRs reconciliation. It's powerful xDR matching engine reconciles each TCG xDR against one or multiple xDR sources from the network. This engine supports all types of xDRs formats from ASCII to raw binary files.
In addition to the xDR matching engine, Osprey features an independent metering engine which validates call durations recorded by the switches and byte counts from the data systems. This unique metering engine is renown for its millisecond and byte accuracy. An integral component of our regulatory solutions.
The output of these two analysis engines is presented in a set of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that include test-specific drill downs that assist engineers and analyst in identifying the root cause(s) of issues. The following list includes just a small subset of some of these KPIs available for validating this critical risk area
| | - Percentage of xDRs not produced per system |
| | - Percentage of xDRs with over metered durations |
| | - Percentage of xDRs with under metered durations |
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