Overview Of Intelligent

Networks Nodes
Prepared By:

Vikas Shah
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IN Network Elements

SDP (Service Data Point)

MINSAT (Mobile Intelligent Networks Service Administration
Tool)
AIR (Account Information and Refill)
VS (Voucher Server)
AF (Account Finder)
EMA (Ericsson Multi Activation)
EMM ( Ericsson Multi Mediation)
CCN (Charging and Control Node)
IVR (Interactive Voice Response)
PSL (Prepaid Service Logic)
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IN Network Structure

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MINSAT
MOBILE INTELLIGENT NETWORK SERVICE
ADMINISTRATIVE TOOL

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MINSAT
Responsible for subscriber administration in Charging
System.

Two Main Functions :

1.
Traffical.
2.
Administrative.
Traffical Functions

No traffic is handled.
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Administrative Functions

Customer Care.
Subscriber Provisioning and Removal.
Statistics.
Individual Voucher State changes (limited
support at roll-back).
Business configurations

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SERVICE DATA POINT (SDP)

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Contains the database with subscriber and account

information.

Two main functions:

1.
Traffic
2.
Administrative

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TRAFFICAL FUNCTIONS

Rating of sessions and events.

Post-processing of Call Detail Records (CDR).
Initiation of USSD-notification and SMSnotifications.
Evaluation logic for call control.
Trigger setup for USSD Call-back-call.

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ADMINISTRATIVE FUNCTIONS

Subscriber and Account data

Service Class data
Announcement Class data
Usage Accumulators data
Tariff and Charging Analysis data
Subscriber Life-Cycle data
Dedicated Accounts data
Family and Friends data
USSD and SMS Notification data
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ADMINISTRATIVE FUNCTIONS

Promotion Plan data

HLR blocking data

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ACCOUNT INFORMATION AND

REFILL SYSTEM

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All refill functions and refill configuration are

handled by the AIR.

Supports a number of file based batch-jobs.

AIR is able to handle multiple Voucher
Servers.

Two Main Functions :

1.
Traffical Functions
2.
Administrative Functions
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Traffical Functions

All refill operations go through the AIR.

The AIR is used by the IVR for balance
enquiries and refills.
AIR accesses the AF and the SDP for account
information.
AIR supports USSD Voucher Refill and USSD
Enquiry.
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Administrative Functions

Administration of Promotions
Refill configurations
Administration of USSD-communication

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VOUCHER SERVER

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Voucher Server
The VS is responsible for the administration of
vouchers.
Two Main Functions :
1.
Traffical.
2.
Administrative.
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Traffical Functions

Providing AIR with voucher information

during refill.
State handling of vouchers.

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Administrative Functions

Voucher Generation.
Import of voucher-batches generated by a
third-party source.
Purging of Vouchers and Voucher history.
Batch State Changes.
Individual Voucher State Changes.
Reporting.
Enquiries of Voucher Information.
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ACCOUNT FINDER

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Account Finder
The AF enables usage of multiple SDPs.
Two Main Functions :
1.
Traffical.
2.
Administrative.

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Traffical Functions

Provide SDP identity for a certain account.

Administrative Functions

Storing account identity to SDP Domain Name

mapping table

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