PCRF
Launch new products faster and unlock business model innovations with mobileAPI Policy Management Suite
Service provider class system for managing the subscriber's individual and group Internet access policies in the operator's networks. It is intended to help CSPs in delivering pricing innovation, competitive differentiation, new product introduction and consistent customer experience.The product can be used as a main PCRF and a secondary PCRF to serve a subset of subscribers (MVNO, large corporate customers) or respond to urgent regulatory or market requirements.
Benefits
Ease of Policy Administration
Business rules are easy to manage with intuitive GUI. It reduces the demands on operations staff, and implementation of policy changes becomes a simple operational routine
Improved Scalability
Modular microservice architecture allows flexible scaling to match performance demands without PCRF redeployment and service interruptions
Cloud Native
The distributed architecture lets the operator deploy mobileAPI PCRF on physical or virtual servers, including servers in the private or public cloud
CAPEX Reduction
The product is built on top of open source software frameworks. No additional CAPEX for 3rd-party software
Open Interfaces
All mobileAPI PCRF interfaces with other network components are implemented according to standardized open protocols
With our PCRF you can:
Quickly and easily update existing products or create new products and services, by configuring new data usage policies
Create a new class of products with varying bandwidths, dynamically changing with the subscriber’s traffic consumption
Implement products dependent on the session APN, subscriber location or any other data session attribute
Introduce special plans for popular Internet applications and sites
Provide free access to selected websites and applications
Collect additional revenue from subscribers by selling them paid traffic bundles (turbo buttons) on demand
Personalize product attributes to the needs of individual subscribers, with a process driven by the subscribers themselves
Modify access speeds or fully block data access to subscribers
Provide special data access policies to subscribers in roaming and notify them in the case of excessive data usage to prevent bill shock
Collect and analyze data usage statistics to create products that maximize an operator's revenue and provide additional value to his subscribers
Key Product Features
Policy Control
Calculation and real-time application of data access policies based on business rules of any complexity
Advice of Charges
Control and notification of excessive data usage, especially by subscribers in roaming, with the goal of preventing unexpected charges
Personalized Policies
Service and parameter-dependent data usage policies, real-time policy modification with service or parameter changes
Shaping and Gating
Limiting data transfer speeds or blocking data transfer at a flow level or at the session level
Usage and Policy Reporting
Integration with self-service portals and other operator systems, with the purpose of providing data on subscriber traffic usage and current service conditions
Usage-Based Policy and Charging
Accumulation of traffic usage data on a session, service or flow basis, policy modification based on the traffic volumes consumed
Policy Control in Roaming
Application of special data usage policies for subscribers in roaming
SMS and Web Notifications
Policy change notifications via SMS messages or by http traffic redirection to preconfigured web pages with relevant information
Flow-Based Charging
Installation of policies separating the subscriber data into flows depending on traffic direction, protocol or Internet application, with subsequent application of different charging rules
