About Mediation Servers

The Mediation server provides the interface between a Subscriber Profile Repository (SPR) database and a Business and Operation Support System (BOSS) client to manage subscriber data.

The SPR database contains subscriber or subscription information. An example of an SPR is the Oracle Communications User Data Repository (UDR) database.

The Mediation server uses SOAP messaging over HTTP/HTTPS protocol to process subscriber profile and service subscription data. The Mediation server provides the following functionality:

Batch SPR data provisioning
The Mediation server provides the functionality to add, update, or delete subscriber profiles in batch which could be used for initializing SPR data.
SPR provisioning
The Mediation server processes the request and response between the BOSS and the UDR database.

Oracle Communications Policy Management with Mediation Server

The CMP server manages the elements of the Oracle Communications Policy Management system, including the Mediation server. The CMP database stores the configuration information for Mediation servers, as well as the other devices required for policy management.

For details on managing and configuring Mediation servers, see the following sections: