Near Real Time Roaming Data Exchange (NRTRDE)
Mobile service providers are losing millions of dollars every year to roaming fraud. The Aricent NRTRDE System enables operators to reduce the time taken to exchange roaming usage records from 36 hours, after the call was made, to four hours or less.
The Aricent NRTRDE system enables the sending of roaming partners' call detail records (CDRs) to their respective home networks and receipt of subscribers' roaming information from other networks. After receiving roaming CDRs from roaming partners, the Aricent NRTRDE system sorts them, translates them to the specified fraud management system format and routes them back in near real-time.
The NRTRDE system follows GSMA, BARG (Billing, Accounting and Roaming Group) and Fraud Forum's recommendations to:
- Reduce the delivery time of fraud-related roaming information from the visited public mobile network (VPMN) to the home public mobile network (HPMN) from 36 hours for the traditionally used HUR (High Usage Record) exchange process to 4 hours (or less) for NRTRDE
- Provide individual call detail record information in a form that allows operators to cost effectively manage roaming fraud
Architecture of Aricent Near Real Time Roaming Data Exchange System (NRTRDE)
Features of Aricent Near Real Time Roaming Data Exchange (NRTRDE)
- Capable of processing 3 billion roaming usage data records in a day (24 hour window) on a SUN v890 server ( 8 * Sparc IV)
- Support of all call record types (voice, data, SMS, GPRS)
- Comprehensive web based Graphical User Interface (GUI)
- Adapter based collection framework for collecting Roaming usage data
- Software Development Kit for creating new business rules for NRTRDE
- Flexible data conversion/enrichment engine for TD.35 format and any other standard developed for NRTRDE
- Enhanced DB support (MySQL and Oracle)
- Flexible error reporting format for TD.35 and any other format
- LDAP based user authentication and role based user management
- Auditing and reporting for revenue assurance
- Support for SNMP V2 alarm, mail and SMS for fault and performance notification
- Load Balancing (Active – Active)
- Highly Availability/Cluster Support