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The purpose of this document is to describe the Convergent Charging Controller implementation of the DIAMETER protocol for the purposes of real-time charging.

Audience

This guide is intended for use by software engineers and testers that need a description of the SCP<- >BE messages used by the DCD that is more detailed than that provided by the SRS and technical guide.

It is assumed that readers are familiar with CCS and the DIAMETER RFCs.

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Related Resources

The following documents are related to this document:
  • RFC 6733 Diameter Base Protocol
  • RFC 4006 Diameter Credit Control Application
  • Diameter Control Agent Technical Guide
  • Diameter and Diameter Control Agent SRS
  • 3GPP TS 32.299 V6.3.0 (2005-06) - 3rd Generation Partnership Project; Technical Specification Group Service and System Aspects; Telecommunication management; Charging management; Diameter charging applications (Release 6)

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