Wifi Presentation

High-Performance RADIUS Server and

Converged Prepaid & Postpaid Billing
ISP, VOIP, Wimax, Mobile & Wifi Providers
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About Aradial Technologies

• Designer and provider of Billing, AAA and

Policy control servers for IP services.
• Targets multiple vertical markets,
xDSL/FTTH, WiMAX, LTE, Wifi, VOIP,
Cable/MSO and 3G mobile, Wifi offload.
• Experienced personnel from top
networking and billing companies
• Private, self funded, profitable

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Aradial Products
• Aradial AAA/RADIUS
• Aradial Enforcer – AAA with Prepaid Enforcement
– Spotngo add-on for Payment and top-up vouchers
• Aradial Converged Billing
– Billing and CRM
– Prepaid and Postpaid billing
– Voucher management
– Self Care
– PRM – Partner management
– Wholesale Data and Voice
– PCRF – Policy Control Engine - module
– Diameter support for Gx/Gy and Ro/Rf - LTE
• PCRF – including AAA and optional billing
• HSS (including dual protocol Diameter and Radius)
• Aradial SMART-HLR - connector for 3G offload
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 Hotspot/Wifi
And Case Studies

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Hotspots/WiFi Installed Base
Over 500 hotspots network installed worldwide
• Interstate USA • MTN Rwanda - Balton/Alvarion

• Bell Aliant Canada • MTN Uganda – Balton/Alvarion

• Kewiko Mongolia - Ruckus • Dekal Telecom–Jamaica-Altai

• STAN Telecom - AF • Noble Telecom - Jamaica

• O'Fallon Wireless USA • Saudi Telecom - Altai

• Telecell - Burkuno Passo • Angola Telecom

• Easy Kiosk - Australia • Namibia Telecom -Nomadix

• PTK – Aruba networks • BSNL – India – Nomadix
• Teledata – MZ • Paamul Mx– Motorola + MTK
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Typical Hotspot Deployment

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Centralized deployment
Hotspots/WiFi Case Study
• MTN Uganda – Wifi 3G offload
– Alvarion (WBS/Wavion) base stations

– Mikrotik

– ARCB with integration to Mobile Core

– Hotel deployments and hospitality

• MTN Rwanda – Wifi 3G offload

– Alvarion (WBS/Wavion) base stations

– Mikrotik

– Enforcer integration with Mobile IN

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Hotspots/WiFi Case Study
• Interstate – Wifi
– Mikrotik

– Military bases and travel stops in USA

• Kewiko – Wifi in Mongolia
– Ruckus (Zone Director)

– Mikrotik
• Seychelles – Wifi all the Island
– 300 Alvarion (WBS/Wavion) base stations

– Mikrotik

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Hotspots/WiFi Case Study
• Altai – Jamaica Dekal
– Altai base stations
– Mikrotik controllers
– 250,000 subscribers
– Aradial Converged Billing - Prepaid

• Sea Link Denmark

– Nomadix and Mikrotik
– 250,000 subscribers
– Prepaid cards
– Spotngo Online Payments
– Spotngo refill vouchers

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Hotspots/WiFi Case Study
• Colima – Wifi Mexico
– Alvarion (WBS/Wavion) – big coverage

– Runcom controller for Wifi and Wimax

– Wimax is for backhauling

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Typical Hotspot Deployment

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 Integration using Aradial Smart-HLR Gateway

Aradial EAP-SIM Mobile Offloading using Aradial SS7 MAP - HLR Gateway

Operator’s
Radius
Server

Radius EAP-SIM RADIUS

Smart Phone RADIUS Accounting

IP based
Interface
Aradial
Access controller Radius
API
For EAP-SIM
MAP

Gateway or Server
AP with RADIUS Client And
Aradial Converged
Billing Aradial SS7 Operator’s
GW - MAP HLR / VLR
Laptop
Aradial Supported Wide Area Base
stations
• Ruckus
• Alvarion Networks (WBS/Wavion)
• GoNet
• Altai Technologies
• Motorola Solutions WING
• Cisco WLC
• Ubiquity
• Aruba
• Autelan
• Motorola Canopy - Cambium
• Xirrus

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Aradial Supported
WiFi Access Controllers
• Ruckus Zone Director
• Mikrotik OS
• Cisco WLC
• Runcom SG1
• Motorola WING
• Aruba Networks
• Nomadix
• HP Curve
• Zyxel, ValuePoint, Planet, Handlink
• 4IPNet
• Griffin, Dlink, NetGear,
• Chillispot based, Linksys - DD-WRT
• PfSense
• Ikarus OS
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 ISP/LTE/Wimax/VOIP/Mobile
Customers

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ISP / WISP
• Vodafone Ghana – GhanaTel
• Nepal Telecom – xDSL, Dialup and Wimax
• MTN Uganda – Wifi 3G offload
• MTN Rwanda – Wifi 3G offload
• NewRoz Telecom – IRAQ
• Kewiko - Mongolia
• Bezeq Israel PTT – ADSL, Wifi and Wimax
• Smile / Orange Israel
• PMI – Philippe Morris – Enterprise
• Cable & Wireless Atlantic – broadband ISPs
• Sure
• Sahara Net – Saudi Arabia
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ISP / WISP
• Multivision - Djibouti
• BPK – Russia – multiple installations
• Rye Telecom – USA
• Jefferson Telecom – USA
• Bentley Walker – Canada
• Palau Telecom
• GTlink – Mexico
• DHI Telecom Group – USA, multiple locations
• Digicel group – Caribbean
• IOG – Norway
• STAN Telecom

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Mobile GSM/CDMA (3G )
• nPhase / Verizon Wireless
• 16M subscribers for supporting all the smartphones
• Maingate – M2M
– 700,000 mobile subscribers in Sweden
• Orange Senegal
• STI – Mobile
– mobile subscribers in Indonesia
– Installation with FTS
• Telikom – PNG
– With Telrad and Amdocs
• NSSL – UK
• Applied Satellite Technology– UK
• Globe Wireless – UK – DRP deployment
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LTE
• Airspan - LTE and Wifi and Aricent EPC
– Vanuatu
– IPI9
– RLTT
– Others in the trails
• Telrad - LTE and HSS with Telrad EPC
• Cello Wireless

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WiMAX
• Airspan – multiple installations including LTE
• Telrad – multiple installations including LTE
• Runcom – multiple installations
• Wichorus/Tellabs – multiple installations
– Sprint USA
– Augere Uganda
• Cisco ASN-GW and Starent
• Huawei and ALU - Telemax - Mongolia
• Motorola PMP / Canopy Wimax
– Craig Wireless - USA – multiple projects
– INEA – Poland

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VoIP

• Net4India
– VoIP provider with 2.5 M subscribers
• GCS - IDT
– VoIP termination provider in USA
– 100 million calls per month
• Globe Comm Systems
• Globe Wireless – USA/UK
• NetCiti / Datacom - Indonesia

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 Aradial RADIUS /AAA
Server

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Aradial AAA Server/ Module
• High performance, fully-featured
• Compliant with RADIUS standards
• EAP support including EAP-SIM/AKA
• Wimax NWG support and LTE extension
• IPv4 and IPv6
• Scalable and High available (Multithreaded, Multi
process)
• Geo redundancy
• Provisioning interface exposed to External system
• Diameter AAA and HSS - extra optional module
– Diameter – Ro/Rf (DCCA), Gx/Gy (PCRF)

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Aradial AAA Server (Cont.)
• 100% web-based interface
• SSL security support
• Scalable Dynamic IP Pools
• Database
– MS SQL, Oracle, MySQL, LDAP, Active Directory
– Flat files

• Statistics and reporting modules

• Enforcer add-on module:
– Prepaid cards management,
– Bandwidth management
– Quotas and balance enforcement
– Disconnect using POD on quota depletion or COA
– MAC authentication and binding
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Architecture

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Integration with External Billing
Systems
• Enhanced provisioning APIs
– Internal support for traffic, duration metering & QoS
• Export usage to billing systems
• Advanced API for external online charging/billing
servers using CORBA
– Session duration limitation
– Data transfer limitations – directional limiting
supported
– Bandwidth limit using VSA RADIUS Attributes
– Quota-based access
– QoS and subscriber profile
• Integration using stored procedures calling
external databases

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Typical High-Availability Deployment

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 Spotngo Payment
Module
Add-on to AAA

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Spotngo Enhanced Vouchers
and Credit-Card Payment Module
• Plan/tariff management (time, traffic and expiration)
• PIN generation and management using plans
• User signup from the portal using a PIN
• Refilling users with a new PIN (PIN attached to a tariff
plan with time, traffic or expiration)
• Refill by credit card
• Creating users with a credit card
• Configurable and customizable payment interface
• View/query payment history
• Secured portal (SSL)
• Secured PIN and plans management (SSL)
• Printing and exporting PINs to CSV files
• Customizable flows
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 AAA & Enforcer
Advanced
Features

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Overview
• Policy algorithms
– Handling RADIUS messages
• State server
– What is happening in the network
• Prepaid user monitoring
• User management
• Process monitoring
– Including SNMP MIBs and traps
• Load simulator to test the network
– Test any scenario for any equipment

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Policy Algorithm Mechanism
• Customizable handling flow for each RADIUS
message type
• Flow made of a chain of RADIUS algorithms
• Core algorithms supplied with the product
– Authentication and Authorization algorithm
– Accounting algorithms
– RADIUS proxy algorithm
• New algorithms can be developed using shared
C++ and/or Lua & TCL scripting

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Aradial AAA Features
• PAP and CHAP authentication
• EAP authentication
– EAP-PEAP, MD5, LEAP
– EAP-TTLS, TLS
– EAP-SIM and AKA (need integration with SS7)
• Digest, MS-Chap and MS-ChapV2
• Proxying to other RADIUS servers
– RFC-based RADIUS proxy
– iPass & other specialized proxy support
• Tunneling
– PPTP
– L2TP
• Policy algorithms

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Unique Functionality
• TCL & Lua scripting for policy algorithms
• Extended billing server provisioning API
• Grouping and subgrouping
• Persistent IP pools (support H/A)
• Bandwidth control per NAS model
• Metering (on external billing databases)
– Time and data accumulator
– Service suspension based on traffic per NAS model
• Blocking or changing QoS for groups in time-of-day
periods (for example, peak, offpeak configurations)
• POD and COA support
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Unique Functionality (Cont.)
• User management
• User self care
• Hotspots WiFi walled garden portal
– Customization of the portal per location
• Prepaid cards management
• Bandwidth management
• Quotas and balance enforcement and expiration
• Disconnect using POD on quota depletion
• MAC authentication and binding
• Viewing sessions and summaries
• Exporting usage

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Unique Functionality (Cont.)
• Spotngo payment system
– Refillable vouchers
– Credit-card processing
– PayPal support
– Customization of Spotngo per location
– PMS system support – Fidelio/Micros

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Integration with External Billing
Systems
• Enhanced provisioning APIs
– Internal support for traffic, duration metering & QOS
• Export usage to billing systems
• Advanced API for external online charging/billing
servers using CORBA
– Session duration limitation
– Data transfer limitations – directional limiting
supported
– Bandwidth limit using VSA RADIUS Attributes
– Quota-based access
– QOS and subscriber profile
• Integration using stored procedures calling
external databases

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 Aradial
Converged
Billing

ARCB
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Aradial Converged
Prepaid & Postpaid, Multi IP Services
• Prepaid and postpaid billing subscribers
• Advanced AAA & HSS– RADIUS and Diameter
• PCRF - Policy Control management
• Customer Management and basic CRM
• Voucher Management system
• Advanced Customizable Captive portal
• Multiple services on same platform:
 Wifi / Hotspots and Wifi 3G/LTE Offloading
 Wired Broadband – ADSL, FTTH– all ISP services
 LTE & Wimax
 Mobile 3G
 VOIP, Traditional VOICE, SMS, MMS, VAS
 VSAT, IPTV
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Aradial Converged
Prepaid & Postpaid, Multi IP Services
• Customer Management Hierarchy
 Account – shared balance for users
 Users under account
 Resource/ANI/CPE defined per users

• Account and user operation – including Roles

 View financial transactions, sessions and calls
 Payment by credit card or PayPal
 Adjustments to invoices
 Manual payments – cash, checks, banks
 Balance transfer between users and accounts

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Aradial Converged
Prepaid & Postpaid, Multi IP Services
• Business Partners and Reseller Management
Hierarchy

Revenue Sharing with Business partners
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Registering subscribers / account
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Selling vouchers and prepaid cards
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Receiving commissions

Balance transfer (like Mobile Banking)
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• Multiple VISP support as Business entity
• Hierarchy
• Special administration for VISP/BE
• Manage users and vouchers under the VISP account
• External HTTP interface for VISP billing integration
• Revenue Sharing with Business partners
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Aradial Converged
Prepaid & Postpaid, Multi IP Services
• Captive portal (customized per location)
 Responsive design–support all OS including phones
 Self registration
 SMS registration (sending PIN via SMS)
 Free registration (e.g. limit 30 min per day)
 Buying online by PayPal / CC
 Voucher registration and refill / top-up
• Web self care for users and accounts
 Users and passwords management
 Accounts - Payments and invoices
 Purchase new offers and upgrades
 View usage and sessions
• Trouble ticketing
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Aradial Converged
Prepaid & Postpaid, Multi IP Services
• Product catalog
 Price plans
 Offers using price plans
 Price plan

 Network profile provisioning

 One-time offers
 Add on offers

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Aradial Converged
Prepaid & Postpaid, Multi IP Services
• Flexible charging & rating
 Periodic Recurring Charges
 Usage charges
 Allowances – multiple balances and counters

 Time of day and day of week and Calendar dates

 Destination charging – e.g use for VOIP and VOICE Prefix table
 One-time charges

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Aradial Converged
Voucher management
• Voucher management
• Top-up vouchers
• Prepaid Cards - Activated on first use
• Calling Cards
• Creating in Batches
• Generating and managing by Resellers/Business entity
(self care for BE)
• Voucher reports including Revenue reports
• Vouchers used in Captive Portal and Self Care
• Advanced Life Cycle including export to files
• Created
• Shipped
• Ready for use
• In use
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Vouchers

• 3 kind of Vouchers:
• Top-up Vouchers
• Prepaid Cards (Anonymous user)
• Calling Cards (VOIP)

• Reports
• Templates
• Manage vouchers

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Aradial Converged
Prepaid & Postpaid, Multi IP Services
 Invoicing
 Periodic automatic invoicing
 Invoicing sent by email
 XSL layout – branding
 Undo billing
 Discounting
 Accounting reports
 Invoicing
 Payment
 Operator statement, per-account statement
 Aging payment

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Aradial Converged
Prepaid & Postpaid, Multi IP Services
• Automatic payment
 Error management
• Account Receivables (A/R)
 Manual, fast payment screen
 Credit card
 PayPal
 Bank Transfer (*)
 Mobile Payments (*)
 PMS – Micros (Fidelio/Opera support)

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Aradial Converged
Prepaid & Postpaid, Multi IP Services
• CDRs processing & error management or
rating problems
• Inventory and Resource management
 DID
 ANI
 MAC Address
 IP Address

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Aradial Policy Control

• PCRF - Policy Control quota management

• Fast definition of Policy rules, actions and step
• Handles various users events
• Advanced dynamic policies for active users
– Change of QoS parameters in real-time
– Disconnect
– Redirect
– Send balance notifications via email and SMS

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Wifi / Hotspots Advanced Features

• Bandwidth and QOS per unique NAS

• Volume quota limiting
• Using RADIUS attributes sent to the NAS
• Using Interim updates and COA / POD
• Exact volume charging without Interim
accounting, using redirection with Runcom.
• Time bank / allowance
• Expiration
• POD - Packet-of-disconnect for live sessions
• From the Admin
• Using API from external system
• COA – change of Authorization
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Wifi / Hotspots Advanced Features

• Different Portal per location or VLAN

• Different catalog/cart per location
• Doing MAC authentication prior to
redirecting to web page.
• SMS and USSD registration flow
• Time Period charging
• Location based charging

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Architecture

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Typical High-Availability Deployment

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 Aradial LTE

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LTE & AAA/Radius and Billing

• LTE Billing and policy control

• Prepaid and postpaid
• Diameter standard for Gx/Gy for PCRF
• Diameter Ro/Rf for charging
• HSS - Diameter
• HSS & AAA supports LTE extension for HSS
• Radius to Diameter converter

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 Aradial WiMAX

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WiMAX AAA/Radius and Billing
• WiMAX Forum standard compliant
• AAA supports 16e NWG 1.4 Stage 3 including:
– Authentication and authorization
– EAP-TTLS/TLS for authentication adapted to the
WiMAX standard
– Integration with leading ASN gateway partners
– IP-based and flow-based accounting
– Hotlining with CoA
– Wimax Prepaid application
– 16d support with all known BRAS

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WiMAX AAA/Radius and Billing
(Cont.)
• Real-time active session management
• Scalability and real-time AAA functionalities
• Cost-effective solution and fast ROI
– Billing and ordering:
• All services, including broadband data, VoIP, voice, IPTV, VoD
for WiMAX
• Allows controlling users balance, time and traffic in real time
and with zero leakage
• Advanced user management for subscribers
• Advance creation of prepaid cards
• Self ordering and provisioning redirection to
activation portal at zero balance and plans
purchase (add on module or ARCB billing)
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WiMAX AAA/Radius and Billing
(Cont.)
• Integration with external billing systems and
future systems - advanced APIs for external
billing integration, for both real-time events and
provisioning
• Support of the following base station providers:
Airspan, Runcom, Telrad/Alvarion,
Cambium/Motorola PMP, Huawei, Alcatel Lucent,
Ipaxiom, Soma, Samsung, Redline, Aperto,
Expedience

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 Aradial VoIP
Prepaid

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Prepaid VoIP with Aradial
• Aradial VoIP supported services:
– IVR calling
– Direct calling using ANI/calling cards
– Username
– Peering
– Termination and origination
• Two charging models:
– Single session – entire balance is allocated for
the user during the session
– Multisession – the session is split into time
quotas for all users that use a single balance
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Prepaid VoIP with Aradial (Cont.)
• Centralized authentication and accounting for
all routers or gateways
• High-performance and reliable server
• Scalable to handle millions of users and
concurrent sessions on low-end hardware
Converged IP services
• SSL secured HTML-based administration
• Dealer/business partner management –
dealers can manage their own users
• Extended HTML UI for user database and
user groups
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Prepaid VoIP with Aradial (Cont.)
• Self-care user module
• User and calling-card management, rating,
import and export from/to CSV files
• Balance, duration and traffic enforcement
• User concurrence enforcement and view of
concurrent calls from the administration tool
• Optional integration with SNMP-based NMS
• Multiple admin types
• Admin activity tracking
• External billing system interface using stored
procedures or CORBA
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Prepaid VoIP & Calling Cards
• Calling-card based prepaid billing
• Calling-card generation, import and export
• Username or ANI based (caller ID) prepaid VoIP billing
• Rating according to call destination, time of day, day of
week
• Different rounding intervals per tariff or per destination
• Call setup cost
• Replenishing API or voucher refilling with payment module.
• Support of multiple tariffs and destinations rating tables that
can be assigned to a calling card
• Session and summary reports per calling card, system,
destination and period
• Optional module – termination billing including wholesale
credit limit and fraud control
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Architecture
SIP Application Aradial Prepaid /
Server Radius System
(w/Internal IVR)

Prepaid
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Real-Time AAA

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VoIP (Conversation) PSTN

PSTN
Media Media
Gateway
Gateway IP Network

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Typical Deployment Example

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 Thank You.

www.aradial.com

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