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Alcatel-Lucent 8610 ICC

I N S TA N T C O N V E R G E N T C H A R G I N G S U I T E

The Alcatel-Lucent 8610 Instant Convergent Charging (ICC) Suite is the key component of the Alcatel-Lucent
Convergent Payment solution. Deployed in over 200 service providers and serving an estimated 400 million
subscribers, the Convergent Payment solution is proven, industry-leading and highly configurable.

The Alcatel-Lucent 8610 ICC Suite
provides a centralized rating, charging
and mediation capability to simultane­ously support unique tariff plans for:

• Wireless and wireline networks,
including 2G, 2.5G, 3G, IMS, NGN,
CDMA, GSM and PSTN

• Voice, SMS, data , video, content/
commerce services

• Prepaid, postpaid and hybrid accounts

These plans help service providers to
maximize the available yield from their
subscriber base.

The Alcatel-Lucent 8610 ICC Suite and
its associated Convergent Rating
Engine enable service providers to be
extremely flexible. Through its unique
drag-and-drop decision tree-based
graphical user interface (GUI), service
providers are quickly able to mix and
match tariff plans with products, bundles,
discounts, promotions and telco usage­based loyalty plans. Tariff plans can be
deployed in as little as a few days, provi­ding immediate responsiveness to
competitors. These tariff plans can be
a mixture of prepaid/ postpaid
wireless, wireline, personal and
business services. For example, a
subscriber may be the prime on a

postpaid family account, while their
children are on a prepaid program on
the same account.

In addition, the Alcatel-Lucent 8610
ICC Convergent Rating Engine (CRE)
integrates a flexible on-line service
creation environment. Providing
additional advanced configuration
capabilities to improve service deploy­ment time, the CRE allows service
behavior customization without
software recompilation.

Configuration is also made easier with
the product catalog feature, which
allows service providers to select the
individual service products and bundles
that will be incorporated into a unique
tariff plan.

The Alcatel-Lucent 8610 ICC Suite also
supports a full range of “community
capabilities”, enabling services concepts
such as “Pay for me”, closed user groups,
friends and family and advanced
communities, targeting churn reduction
and efficient market segmentation.

Deployed on industry-standard IT-based
platforms, the Alcatel-Lucent 8610 ICC
Suite easily integrates with wireless
and fixed networks through IP-based
infrastructure as well as more tradi­tional IN-based networks.

Figure 1. Alcatel-Lucent 8610 ICC modular software suite

Legacy

voice

Fixed, broadbandWireless Converged

IMS-GW

IMS/NGN/IP

session

Mediation

Event, data,

content

Office event

generators

Features

• Pre- and post-paid convergence

¬ A single solution to simultane-

ously support real-time rating and
charging prepaid/postpaid tariff
plans across multiple networks

• Convergent rating engine

¬ Design tree GUI supports drag-

and-drop of multiple tariff plans,
including the ability to mix-and­match voice and data tariffs to
support hyper-market flexibility
based on time of day or week,
usage, discounts, promotions,
sessions, events and content

¬ Pricing center’s user-friendly

GUI simplifies management of
product catalog and commercial
offers, allowing access to the entire
product catalog through a graphi­cal display of entities with copy/
paste and drag/drop facilities and
a better view of commercial offers
prior to launching them, thanks to
version control

• Centralized product catalog

¬ Directory of products that are used

by the Convergent Rating Engine

Rating
Engine

IT platform

Drag-and-drop

creation of offers

Product

Catalog

Balance

Manager

Notification

Promotion

Engine

Manager

• Communities

¬ Enables “friends and family”

and/or enterprise-based commu­nity rating programs

• Real-time loyalty management

¬ Allows multiple usage counter s

and thresholds to create new, flexible,
segment-based loyalty plans to
reduce churn

• Full mobile virtual network operator
(MVNO) and mobile virtual network
enabler (MVNE) support

¬ Enables unique brands, brand

protection

¬ Supports multiple MVNO/MVNE

“tenants”

• Centralized top-up engine

¬ Flexibly manages all sources of

top-up and associated advanced
bonus programs, including scratch
cards, credit cards, ATM and point­of-sale recharge options

• Real-time access and management of
user profile/data via multiple channels

¬ IVR, USSD, Web self care

• Smooth integration with Alcatel­Lucent VAS portfolio for advanced
charging such as:

¬ VPN and WPBX advanced charg-

ing, ring back tone, video mail,
mobile TV

Capture History

Storage

Engine

Top Up

Voucher

Manager

Reseller

Manager

Consult, Update

User Self

Care

APIs integrate with critical business systems

• Modular architecture

¬ Separation of call control compo-

nents such as voice, SMS, data,
IMS from real-time convergent
rating and charging engine

¬ Manages feature growth based

on operational strategy, includ­ing SMS Charging, Online/Offline
Charging, Web Customer Care/
Web Self Care, Over-The-Air­Recharge/Voucher Management,
USSD Call Back

¬ Highly scalable to support the

smallest to largest of networks,
with 99.999% availability

¬ Geographically distributable to

support disaster recovery/disaster
avoidance deployment options

• Multiple APIs

¬ Ease of integration with third-

party IT and network elements

¬ Based on high-level business pro-

cesses for customer provisioning

¬ Based on Java™ and web services

technologies

Seamless

integration

CRM

OSS/BSS

ERP

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