Introduction to the Gigaport Accounting, Billing

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Introduction to the GigaportAccounting, Billing
Payment project (GigaABP)

• Sander Hille
• Project manager GigaABP
• Internet NG - GigaABP accounting workshop
• Friday, June 22, 2001

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GigaABP topics
ICT support for the commercial exploitation of
new (broadband) internet-based services

• Realise ICT-support by means of outsourcing
  accounting, billing and payment functions to
  service providers enable commercial Internet
  activities of medium-size enterprises
• Accounting ASP(usage metering, accounting)
• Electronic Bill Presenters(electronic
  invoicing)
• Payment Service Providers(Internet payments,
  wallets, micropayments)

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Setting

• Broadband (symmetric)

• Fixed -mobiel integrated
• Open service market

Mobile operator
ISP Internet Service Provider
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Outsourcing
Content deployment
End-user
Internet
RW
FF
(VIP )
(VIP GigaABP)
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Metering Middleware
Application
Billing
Accountingsystem
Client
Server farm
Client
Middleware
Transport
Network
ISDN
PSTN
GSM
GPRS
UMTS
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Architecture
1. Functional Reference Model for exploitation of
services(Henk Jonkers)

• 2. Business architectures(Sander Hille, Roel
  Stap)
• Business patterns for Electronic Bill Presentment
• Payment Service provisioning

3. System architecture for metering
middleware(Andrew Tokmakoff, Roel Stap, Martin
Wibbels)
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Demonstrators

• As experiment with technology
• Jalda API for (micro-)payments
• XML XSL for Electronic Bill Presentment
• server side metering with Darwin Streaming
  Server
• To show Dutch business what is possible
• now,
• in the near future
• Core system GigaABP accounting server

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Demonstrations
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Server-side metering for streaming video

• Issue
• RTSP provides you with client side Play-time,
  but not with client side Stop time How to
  obtain this information?

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Issue Integration with accounting
Darwin Streaming Server software
RTSP
Internet
File system
QuickTime client 1
Meter module
RTSP
Providerdomain
Accounting system
QuickTime client 2
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Issue correctness
The best we can get (up till now)

• Conclusions
• Accuracy is not sufficient for charging-per-secon
  d
• It is sufficient though for information
  provisioning, user behaviour measurement

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Demonstration
Server side metering (Andrew Tokmakoff)
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Accounting ASP system

• Query logged events
• Statistics

• Session identification
• Events

Billing
Accounting
Charging
InfoProvisioning
Batch billing street
Data mining,statistics
Sessionmanager
Eventlogger
Specific datamanager
Genericchargingmodule
Billpreparationmodule
Bill database
Event database
Charge database
Data Warehouse
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Accounting ASP system
Different modules for different providers

• Export bill details

• Price information
• Asset metadata (title duration, ...)

• Query logged events
• Statistics

• Session identification
• Events

Billing
Accounting
Charging
InfoProvisioning
Chargingpolicies (Java)
Billingpolicies (Java)
Sessionmanager
Eventlogger
Specific datamanager
Genericchargingmodule
Billpreparationmodule
Bill database
Event database
Charge database
Data Warehouse
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Accounting ASP system
Billing
Accounting
Charging
InfoProvisioning
Chargingpolicies (Java)
Billingpolicies (Java)
Sessionmanager
Eventlogger
Specific datamanager
Genericchargingmodule
Billpreparationmodule
XML-basedproprietary, IPDR, ...
Bill database
Event database
Charge database
Data Warehouse
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• Sander Hille
• hille_at_telin.nl
• http//gigaabp.telin.nlwww.telin.nl
• www.gigaport.nl