data: CTF, OCF, RE, pre-paid, post-paid
authorFrantišek Kučera <franta-hg@frantovo.cz>
Mon, 19 Aug 2013 19:43:31 +0200
changeset 12723beb1c7d628
parent 126 b852db8d2b56
child 128 1be9b13d2473
data: CTF, OCF, RE, pre-paid, post-paid
data/dictionary.xml
     1.1 --- a/data/dictionary.xml	Mon Aug 19 19:27:38 2013 +0200
     1.2 +++ b/data/dictionary.xml	Mon Aug 19 19:43:31 2013 +0200
     1.3 @@ -781,12 +781,24 @@
     1.4  	</concept>
     1.5  	<concept>
     1.6  		<term abbreviation="CTF" completeForm="Charging Trigger Function" language="en"/>
     1.7 -		<explanation language="en"><text></text></explanation>
     1.8 +		<explanation language="en">
     1.9 +			<text>
    1.10 +				one of two peers involved in charging process;
    1.11 +				CTF decides how to charge particular subscriber for specific service;
    1.12 +				issues requests to the OCF
    1.13 +			</text>
    1.14 +		</explanation>
    1.15  		<tag>charging</tag>
    1.16  	</concept>
    1.17  	<concept>
    1.18  		<term abbreviation="OCF" completeForm="Online Charging Function" language="en"/>
    1.19 -		<explanation language="en"><text></text></explanation>
    1.20 +		<explanation language="en">
    1.21 +			<text>
    1.22 +				one of two peers involved in charging process;
    1.23 +				accepts requests from CTF and performs actual charging
    1.24 +				based on the message type, service logic, user's profile or other circumstances
    1.25 +			</text>
    1.26 +		</explanation>
    1.27  		<tag>charging</tag>
    1.28  	</concept>
    1.29  	<concept>
    1.30 @@ -814,16 +826,33 @@
    1.31  	<concept>
    1.32  		<term abbreviation="" completeForm="SMS gateway" language="en"/>
    1.33  		<term abbreviation="RE" completeForm="routing entity" language="en"/>
    1.34 -		<explanation language="en"><text></text></explanation>
    1.35 +		<explanation language="en">
    1.36 +			<text>
    1.37 +				a software component located between the SMSC (or other service centre) and ESME (applications);
    1.38 +				passes messages in both directions,
    1.39 +				uses SMPP and other messaging protocols,
    1.40 +				does routing of messages, their transformations, conversions or other operations
    1.41 +			</text>
    1.42 +		</explanation>
    1.43  	</concept>
    1.44  	<concept>
    1.45  		<term abbreviation="" completeForm="pre-paid" language="en"/>
    1.46 -		<explanation language="en"><text></text></explanation>
    1.47 +		<explanation language="en">
    1.48 +			<text>
    1.49 +				a kind of subscription where the subscriber pays in advance
    1.50 +				and his services are charged (usually immediately, online) from his pre-paid balance
    1.51 +			</text>
    1.52 +		</explanation>
    1.53  		<tag>charging</tag>
    1.54  	</concept>
    1.55  	<concept>
    1.56  		<term abbreviation="" completeForm="post-paid" language="en"/>
    1.57 -		<explanation language="en"><text></text></explanation>
    1.58 +		<explanation language="en">
    1.59 +			<text>
    1.60 +				a kind of subscription where the subscriber pays later than he uses the services (usually monthly);
    1.61 +				compared to pre-paid, batch processing of CDR files and offline processing is common here
    1.62 +			</text>
    1.63 +		</explanation>
    1.64  		<tag>charging</tag>
    1.65  	</concept>
    1.66  	<concept>