Crestel : Charging Gateway Function

Crestel Charging Gateway Function (CGF) is a 3GPP compliant offline mediation solution that is capable of accepting any event or record in any standards based format generated by the network and producing rich records in format required by the downstream system. It helps protect investment in existing BSS/OSS systems by interfacing to transfer information to the downstream system in the required format.

It also acts as storage buffer for CDR collection and to perform consolidation of CDRs . It handles Filtering, Duplicate Detection, Cloning, Data Editing, Data Processing, Error Processing, Data Formatting and Enrichment of CDR in accordance with 3GPP specifications

Features and Benefits

	Usage Record Collection & validation
	Aggregates usage records from multiple sources, and Delivers clean data, allowing downstream systems like billing, customer care, fraud management to focus on core functions. Supports error processing and reprocessing.

	Partner Management
	Manages content services, settles with partners and controls interactive games and services.

	Data exchange Protocols & Interface support
	Protocols Supported FTP, FTAM, RADIUS, GTP, CORBA, HTTP, HTTP/XML, HTTP/SOAP, SFTP, RDR . Interfaces supported Ga , Bx

	Minimizes Time and Cost to Market
	Communicates with all modules, networks and systems. Providers can easily enhance their systems with off-the-shelf modules, cutting down costs and ensuring quick rollouts and rapid reaction to market movements.

	Prevents Revenue Leakage
	Transmits accurate information between the various network elements and OSS / BSS components. Prevents usage, rating, billing errors and revenue leakage.

	Flexibility and Scalability
	Deployment as Central or Distributed over multiple machines/nodes at multiple locations, to meet sudden, massive upsurge in subscriber events (in millions)

	Vendor Independent
	Vendor-independent, communicating with multi-vendor network elements easily.

	Open Platform
	An open standard-based, distributed software platform that is extremely modular. Adapter library contains many pre-built, tested and deployed adapters for integrating with service management components, enabling seamless integration with a wide array of network and business systems.