Contents

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Preface

• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Related Documents

1 Introducing Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper

• What Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper Provides
  • Access to Telecom Network Service Capabilities Using APIs Based on Well-Known Standards
  • Access to Oracle Communications Converged Application Server for Connectivity to SIP Network Infrastructure
  • Application Development Tools
  • Support for Automating Partner Management Using Web Services
  • Common Access Control for Both Internal and Third Party Applications
  • Flexible Authorization Control Based on Fine-Grained Policy Decisions
  • Enhanced Network Protection
  • Built-in Network Routing
  • Carrier Grade and Fully Scalable Architecture
  • OSS and Billing System Integration
  • Subscriber Personalization and Protection
  • Extensible Architecture

2 Introducing Communication Service Features

• Overview
• Service Level Agreements and Policy Enforcement
• Service Level Agreements and Network Protection
• Traffic Security
• Events, Alarms, and Charging
• Statistics and Transaction Units

3 Software Architecture Overview

• Overview
• Communication Services
• Container Services
• Deployment Model

4 Developing Applications

• Overview of Interfaces
  • SOAP-Based Interfaces
  • RESTful Interfaces
  • Native Interfaces
• References
• SDK

5 Managing Application Service Providers

• Overview
• The Administration Model
• Partner Relationship Management Interfaces
• Other Tasks Associated with Administering Service Providers

6 Managing Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper

• Overview
• The WebLogic and Services Gatekeeper Administration Console
• OAM Tasks Overview
• OSS Integration

7 Charging and Billing Integration

• Overview
• CDR-Based Charging
  • Data Generation
• Content-Based Charging and Accounting
• Billing System Integration
  • Billing Gateways
  • CDR Database
  • Charging Using Diameter

8 Redundancy, Load Balancing, and High Availability

• Tiering
• Traffic Management Inside Services Gatekeeper
  • Application-Initiated Traffic
  • Network-triggered Traffic
• Registering Notifications with Network Nodes
  • Notification Life Span
  • When the Network Node Supports Primary and Secondary Notification
  • When the Network Node Supports Only Single Notification
• Network Configuration
• Geographic Redundancy
  • Geo-Redundant Sites
  • Applications and Geo-Redundancy

9 Service Extensibility

• Overview
• The Platform Development Studio

A Standards and Specifications

• Application-Facing Interfaces
  • Parlay X 2.1
  • Parlay X 3.0
  • Extended Web Services
    • Binary SMS
    • WAP Push
    • Subscriber Profile LDAP
  • RESTful APIs
  • Native
• Network Protocol Plug-Ins
• Security
• Identity and Trust

Glossary