Mediation is the layer that collects raw usage data from network elements and converts it into records that downstream systems can use. Without it, billing, revenue assurance, fraud detection and analytics would each need to speak directly to every switch, gateway and core network function in the operator’s estate.
What This Coverage Includes
This hub covers call detail records (CDRs), the per-event records a switch produces for each call or session, and their broader successors, often called xDRs, which describe data sessions, messages and signaling events. It covers convergent mediation platforms that normalize, filter, correlate and enrich those records in batch and in real time, and the integration work that connects them to billing and assurance systems. Our explainer on the call detail record provides background on the format itself.
Why It Matters to Operators
Mediation is rarely visible to customers, yet a fault here propagates into every system that depends on usage data. Accurate mediation is a precondition for correct billing and credible revenue assurance, and real-time mediation is a precondition for online charging and usage-based policy.
Companies Most Often Covered
Comptel Corporation · Intec Billing · Openet Telecom · TeleSciences · Convergent Mediation · Call Detail Records · Ace-Comm · Subex · Cerillion Technologies · MetaSolv · LHS · Telcordia
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- Comarch Supports Nokia Data Gathering Implementation (January 15, 2012)
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