Contents

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Preface

• Audience
• Downloading Oracle Communications Documentation
• Documentation Accessibility
• Document Revision History

1 About Rating Roaming Events

• About Roaming
• About Roaming Incollect Processing
  • About Validating Roaming Usage Data
  • About Repricing Roaming Usage Events
  • About Generating Stop Return RAP Files
• About Roaming Outcollect Processing
  • About Splitting Home CDRs from Visiting Subscribers' CDRs
  • About Rating Visiting Subscribers' Roaming CDRs
• About Handling Rejected TAP Files
• About Settling Roaming Charges
• About Near Real-Time Roaming Data Exchange and Roaming Fraud Detection

2 About Settling Roaming Charges

• About Settlement Events
• How Settlement Events Are Created
  • How Settlement Events for Incollect Roaming Charges Are Created
  • How Settlement Events for Outcollect Roaming Charges Are Created
• How Settlement Events Impact Roaming Partner Account Balance
• About Loading Settlement Events into the BRM Database
• About Handling Suspended Settlement Events
• About Validating the Bill Amount

3 About Processing Home Subscribers' Roaming Usage

• Understanding Roaming Incollect Architecture and Process Flow
• How Roaming Usage Data Is Validated
  • About Validation Error Codes
  • TAP Validations That Are Not Supported
    • Syntax Error Validations on Integer Fields
    • Out-of-Range Validations on Date Fields
    • Validations Involving Bilateral Agreement
    • Validations that Require Additional Component Involvement
    • Other Validations that Are not Supported
  • Transmitting TAP Files to the Validation Pipeline
• About Charging Your Subscribers for Their Roaming Usage
  • Charging Your Subscribers for Their Roaming Usage
  • Processing EDRs Suspended by the Reprice Pipeline
  • Choosing Whether to Apply Taxes for Roaming
  • About Processing Your Subscribers' Prepaid Roaming Charges
  • About Repricing Optimally Routed Calls

4 About Processing Visiting Subscribers' Roaming Usage

• Understanding Roaming Outcollect Architecture and Process Flow
• How Home CDRs Are Separated from Visiting Subscribers' CDRs
  • Transmitting CDRs to the Splitter Pipeline
• How Visiting Subscribers' Roaming CDRs Are Rated
  • Processing EDRs Suspended by the Outcollect Rating Pipeline
  • Transmitting Roaming EDRs to the Outcollect Rating Pipeline
  • About Generation of Notification Files when there Is No Roaming Activity
  • About Sending Outcollect TAP Files to Your Roaming Partner
• About Processing Rejected Outcollect TAP Files and Records
  • Error Correction for TAP Files with Fatal Errors
  • Error Correction for TAP Files with Severe Errors
  • Backing Out the Balance Impacts for the Rejected TAP Files and Records
• Including Country Codes in TAP Output Files

5 Installing TAP Roaming Manager

• System Requirements
  • Software Requirements
• Installing TAP Roaming Manager
  • Uninstalling TAP Roaming Manager

6 Setting Up Roaming for TAP

• Setting Up Roaming for TAP Roaming Usage Events
  • Installing Supporting Managers
  • Defining Roaming Partner Accounts in the BRM Database
    • Creating a Roaming Plan
    • Creating Roaming Partner Accounts Using the Roaming Plan
  • Defining Rate Plans for Rating Roaming Usage
  • Defining Configuration Parameters for Roaming
  • Setting Up the Default TAP Currency
    • Configuring the Default TAP Currency
  • Setting Up TAP Roaming Manager to Support TAP 3.11
• Verifying the Processing of Roaming Usage Events
• Improving System Performance when Rating Roaming Events

7 Setting Up Pipeline Manager for Roaming Incollect Processing

• Setting Up Roaming Incollect Processing Pipelines
  • Configuring the Validation Pipeline
    • Configuring the Validation Pipeline EDRFactory Registry
    • Configuring the Validation Pipeline DataDescription Registry Section
    • Configuring Validation Pipeline Input Processing
    • Configuring Validation Pipeline Function Modules
    • Configuring Validation Pipeline Output Processing
  • Configuring the Reprice Pipeline
    • Configuring the Reprice Pipeline DataDescription Registry Section
    • Configuring Reprice Pipeline Input Processing
    • Configuring Reprice Pipeline Function Modules
    • Configuring Reprice Pipeline Output Processing
    • Configuring DAT_InterConnect
    • Configuring Rated Event Loader for the Reprice Pipeline
    • Configuring Suspense Manager for the Reprice Pipeline
  • Configuring the Incollect Settlement Pipeline
    • Configuring the Incollect Settlement Pipeline DataDescription Registry Section
    • Configuring Incollect Settlement Pipeline Input Processing
    • Configuring Incollect Settlement Pipeline Function Modules
    • Configuring Incollect Settlement Pipeline Output Processing
    • Configuring Rated Event Loader for the Incollect Settlement Pipeline
    • Configuring Suspense Manager for the Incollect Settlement Pipeline
  • Configuring the Stop RAP Generator Pipeline
    • Configuring the Stop RAP Generator Pipeline EDRFactory Registry
    • Configuring the Stop RAP Generator Pipeline DataDescription Registry Section
    • Configuring Input Processing for the Stop RAP Generator Pipeline
    • Configuring the Stop RAP Generator Pipeline Function Modules
    • Configuring Output Processing for the Stop RAP Generator Pipeline

8 Setting Up Pipeline Manager for Roaming Outcollect Processing

• Setting Up Roaming Outcollect Processing Pipelines
  • Configuring the Splitter Pipeline
    • Configuring the Splitter Pipeline DataDescription Registry Section
    • Configuring the Splitter Pipeline Input Processing
    • Configuring the Splitter Pipeline Function Modules
    • Configuring the Splitter Pipeline Output Processing
  • Configuring the Outcollect Rating Pipeline
    • Configuring the Outcollect Rating Pipeline DataDescription Registry Section
    • Configuring the Outcollect Rating Pipeline Input Processing
    • Configuring the Outcollect Rating Pipeline Function Modules
    • Configuring the Outcollect Rating Pipeline Output Processing
    • Configuring the DAT_InterConnect Module
    • Configuring Suspense Manager for the Outcollect Rating Pipeline
  • Configuring the Outcollect Settlement Pipeline
    • Configuring the Outcollect Settlement Pipeline EDRFactory Registry
    • Configuring the Outcollect Settlement Pipeline DataDescription Registry Section
    • Configuring the Outcollect Settlement Pipeline Input Processing
    • Configuring the Outcollect Settlement Pipeline Function Modules
    • Configuring the Outcollect Settlement Pipeline Output Processing
    • Configuring Rated Event Loader to Load Settlement Events into the BRM Database
    • Configuring Suspense Manager for the Outcollect Settlement Pipeline
  • Configuring the RAP Processing Pipeline
    • Configuring the RAP Processing Pipeline EDRFactory Registry
    • Configuring the RAP Processing Pipeline DataDescription Registry Section
    • Configuring the RAP Processing Pipeline Input Processing
    • Configuring the RAP Processing Pipeline Function Modules
    • Configuring the RAP Processing Pipeline Output Processing
    • Configuring Suspense Manager for the RAP Processing Pipeline
    • Configuring Event Extraction Manager to Create the Backout File
  • Configuring the TAP Correction Pipeline
    • Configuring the TAP Correction Pipeline EDRFactory Registry
    • Configuring the TAP Correction Pipeline DataDescription Registry Section
    • Configuring the TAP Correction Pipeline Input Processing
    • Configure the TAP Correction Pipeline Function Modules
    • Configuring the TAP Correction Pipeline Output Processing
  • Configuring the Backout Pipeline
    • Configuring the Backout Pipeline DataDescription Registry Section
    • Configuring the Backout Pipeline Input Processing
    • Configuring the Backout Pipeline Output Processing
    • Configuring Suspense Manager for the Backout Pipeline

9 RAP to EDR Field Mappings

• Mapping of RAP Fields to EDR Fields

10 TAP and EDR Field Mappings

• TAP-to-EDR Mapping
• EDR-to-TAP Mapping

11 Rating CIBER Roaming Usage Events

• About Processing CIBER OCC Records
  • About Generating CIBER OCC Records for Network Operators
  • Configuring Duplicate Check for CIBER OCC Records
  • Changing the Default Time Scheme
  • About Finding the Rate Plan for CIBER Records
• Configuring EDR Field Validation
  • Configuring the iRuleValidation Module
  • Configuring Rule Sets for the EDR Field Validation

12 Installing CIBER Roaming Manager

• Installing CIBER Roaming Manager
• Uninstalling CIBER Roaming Manager
• Increasing Heap Size to Avoid ”Out of Memory” Error Messages

13 Rating Interconnect Events

• About Interconnect Rating
• About Setting Up Interconnect Rating
  • About FCT_CarrierICRating Module
  • About the DAT_InterConnect Module
  • About Aggregation Scenarios for Roaming
  • About Network Operator Bill Cycles
    • Closing a Billrun
• About Setting Up Network Operator Accounts
  • About Network Operators
  • About Network Models
  • About Interconnect Products
  • About Interconnect Product Groups
  • About Linking Rate Plans to Network Operators and IC Products
• About Managing Settlement for Interconnect Charges
• About Creating Accounts for Interconnect Partners
  • How Settlements Are Applied to Account Balances
  • About Price Plans for Roaming Partners
• About Processing Outcollect Settlement Data
• Importing the UE Mapper Settlement Template
  • Configuring UE Loader to Load the Settlement Data File
    • Configuring UE Loader to Run Automatically (Optional)
  • Extracting Settlement Information from the Pipeline Manager Database
  • Loading Settlement Data into the BRM Database
• About Adjusting Aggregated Settlement Amounts
• About Generating SMS Usage Reports
  • Generating an SMS Usage Report
    • Creating the Aggregation Scenario in the Database
    • Configuring the FCT_AggreGate Module to Collect SMS Usage Information
    • Loading the SMS Message Data into the Database
    • Generating SMS Bulk Reports
• Opcodes Used for Managing Settlement Data
  • Loading Settlement Data into the BRM Database
  • Loading SMS Data into the BRM Database

14 Detecting Roaming Fraud Using NRTRDE

• About Roaming Usage Data for NTRTRDE
  • About Handling Roaming Usage Data for NRTRDE
    • About Generating Roaming Usage Data for NRTRDE
    • About Processing Roaming Usage Data for NRTRDE
  • About NRTRDE Reports
• Setting Up Pipeline Manager for NRTRDE
  • Creating NRTRDE Tables in the BRM Database
  • Setting Up Pipeline Manager for Generating Roaming Usage Data for NRTRDE
    • Limiting the Number of Records by Configuring a Batch Controller
    • Configuring a Sequence Generation for NRTRDE Files
    • Including NRTRDE Stream Format Descriptions
    • Providing Required EDRs to Roaming Partner NRTRDE Output Streams
    • Configuring NRTRDE Output Stream for Roaming Partners
  • Setting Up Pipeline Manager for Processing Roaming Usage Data for NRTRDE
• Creating NRTRDE Reports
• iScripts
• NRTRDE Delivery Report
• NRTRDE Error Report
• NRTRDEReportGen64

15 Installing InterConnect Manager

• Installing Interconnect Manager
• Uninstalling Interconnect Manager