Enhanced Charging Service Overview - Cisco ASR 5000 series Product Overview

Chapter 21

Enhanced Charging Service Overview

This chapter provides an overview of Enhanced Charging Service (ECS)/Active Charging Services (ACS).
ECS is an enhanced or extended premium service. The System Administration Guide provides basic system
configuration information, and the product administration guides provide information to configure the core network
service functionality. It is recommended that you select the configuration example that best meets your service model,
and configure the required elements for that model before using the procedures in this chapter.
This chapter covers the following topics:
Introduction
Licensing
ECS Architecture
How ECS Works
Enhanced Services in ECS
Accounting Interfaces
Charging Record Generation
Charging Methods and Interfaces
Prepaid Billing in ECS
Credit Control Application (CCA) in ECS
Postpaid Billing in ECS
External Storage System
Redundancy Support in ECS
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