Enhanced Charging Service Overview
Postpaid Billing in ECS â–€
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Step 9 The system stores the last of the xDRs to the system memory and final xDRs are SFTPd from system memory to ESS, if
deployed or to billing system directly.
Step 10 System sends the last of the G-CDRs/eG-CDRs to the GSS, if deployed or to billing system directly.
Step 11 File generation utility, FileGen in GSS periodically runs to generate G-CDRs/eG-CDRs files for billing system and send
them to the billing system
Step 12 The billing system picks up the xDR files from the ESS periodically.
Postpaid Billing in CDMA-2000 Networks
The following figure and steps describe how ECS works within a CDMA-2000 network for postpaid billing.
Figure 188. Postpaid Billing with ECS in CDMA-2000 Network
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Step 1 The subscriber initiates the session.
Step 2 After subscriber authentication and authorization, the system starts the session.