RAPS – RADIUS Accounting and Provisioning System

Golden Telecom, Inc. listed on NASDAQ under the symbol 'GLDN' 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).

Project:RAPS - RADIUS Accounting and Provisioning System

Technologies: Sun Java/J2EE, Oracle AS 9.x In general, RADIUS servers enable remote access servers to communicate with a central server to authenticate dial-in users and authorize their access to the requested system or service of provider. RADIUS Accounting and Provisioning System (RAPS) was developed by Azoft to ease the management of user's accounts on RADIUS servers. It also helps to monitor current user's sessions by provider's staff. Other useful function of RAPS is collection of services usage and statistics, which is then used to bill consumers.

RAPS is dedicated to automate the cycle of management and monitoring of all RADIUS servers of Golden Telecom. 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 support and technical staff of the customer 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.

Azoft developed an intelligent access management subsystem, which helps to ease the work of support staff and minimize the errors. Each administrator has his own access rights configured and set by supervisor. It allows configuring interfaces in a way that each low-level administrator can access only specific set of functions and can manage only his accounts and services.

History of operations and transactions log modules was developed as well. Those modules allow simplifying the investigation of possible problems and moot points.
Several important interfaces were developed in the scope of the RAPS project. Among them are interface for integration with billing system, interface for integration with company security system, interface for integration with the network descriptions subsystem. All of them allow quickly configure and maintain provided services, automatically requesting and maintaining RADIUS server permissions and functionality.

Besides integration with company billing system, RAPS also implement following important functionality:

For users support staff:

For technical staff of provider:

• manage IP-addresses pool
• manage RADIUS servers