PortaBilling100 Advanced is a carrier grade converged VoIP billing software and customer management platform that enables high traffic volume telecommunication service providers and VoIP wholesale carriers to launch, price and provision their services with greater flexibility and in a larger scale.

PortaBilling100 Advanced offers a simultaneous multiprocessing and dedicated database architecture to benefit from the additional processing power of the core billing server. This provides a drastic increase of performance per each processor in the system.

For more technical and/or pricing information about PortaBilling100 Advanced please contact our sales team.

PortaBilling100 Advanced is also offered in a clustered architecture where the RADIUS billing engine runs on three servers in parallel. The architecture of business critical clusters adds the ultimate redundancy to the billing functionality of the product while the transparent load-sharing allows increasing the capacity level of the whole system.

This cluster option is available as a part of PortaSwitch Procinctus bundle.

PortaBilling100 Advanced is primarily recommended for service providers and carriers whose monthly traffic load exceeds 15-20 million minutes.

20M minutes per month is a pretty good benchmark for the standard configured systems that usually deal with up to 40 requests per second. If you expect your system to manage over 40 requests per second, you may want to consider PortaBilling100 Advanced at traffic load levels lower than 20M min/month.

PortaBilling100 Advanced is specially designed to work together with NextTone Mutiprotocol Session Exchange or MSX (now Genband's S3 SBC). MSX is an advanced VoIP session border controller and switch incorporating H323 and SIP proxy, as well as an H323-SIP protocol converter.

Please download PortaBilling100 Advanced for NexTone Guide, a document that provides information on setting up the product in conjunction with NextTone MSX.

Architecture

Features

PortaBilling100 Advanced provides the following VoIP billing functionality in addition to the standard PortaBilling100:

• Modified RADIUS server to allow real-time authentication/authorization for calls passing via NextTone
• A different handling of dictionaries in the RADIUS server so the billing can simultaneously communicate with NextTone and with Cisco/PortaSIP nodes (or other gateways, using Cisco VSAs). This allows running services such as pre-paid cards, where the IVR is provided on the Cisco gateway and then call is sent to the NextTone
• Modified billing engine code, to supply workarounds for providing services not directly supported by NextTone: real-time authorization for credit accounts, toll-free calls, etc.
• Special handling of call-id/h323-conf-id conversion to hybrid (SIP->H323, H323->SIP) calls
• Various modifications for the billing engine logic (e.g. to support ANI/IP based billing according to the information supplied by NextTone
• Several additional custom reports to facilitate the management (e.g. "Full LCR table", etc.)
• A script for importing NextTone text CDR files (for off-line CDR import)