RAPS RADIUS

VympelCom is one of the leading Telecom and Internet Russian providers. This is the largest independent facilities-based provider of integrated telecommunications and internet services to businesses and other high-usage customers and telecommunications operators in major population centers throughout Russia and other countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). We maintain OSS developed for Beeline and carried out several projects on development of new and porting and extending the capabilities of existing OSS components.

The Scope

To develop an OSS-module, specifically Accounting and Provisioning System integrated with the customer’s existing Service Provisioning System, to ease the management of user's accounts on RADIUS servers, collect accounting information, and monitor current user's sessions by provider's staff.

Project Description

RADIUS Accounting and Provisioning System is a component of OSS and dedicated to automate the cycle of management and monitoring of all RADIUS servers of VympelCom. Also, it serves the purpose of collection all available accounting information and usage statistics which then is exported to billing system for further processing. RAPS helps customer’s support and technical staff to maintain and manage user's accounts on all set of services including Dial-up, ISDN, ADSL and GPRS. It helps to maintain listed operations not only in the central facilities, but in the regions as well.

The Challenge

Different parts of the customer’s OSS were physically located in different places, so the simultaneous usage of the system’s parts, as well as keeping the entire system functional while changing the parts was quite a challenging point.

The Outcome

Our team developed an intelligent RADIUS Accounting and Provisioning System, which helps to ease the work of support staff, collect detailed accounting information for further export into the billing system, and minimize the errors. The developed OSS-module was successfully integrated into the existing telecom provider infrastructure and linked with its central security system. This allowed each administrator to have his own access rights configured and set by supervisor and to configure interfaces in a way that each low-level administrator can access only specific set of functions and can manage only his/her accounts and services.

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