Improve Your Mobile Data Revenue
The Mobile Service-Aware Charging solution allows billing by volume, connection duration, download, or event to increase revenue potential. (PDF - 517 KB)
Differentiation and New Revenues
Cisco Mobile Service-Aware Charging helps mobile operators optimize revenue from the diverse range of services on their 2G, 3G, and 4G mobile networks, including streaming video, mobile web, and social networking applications. The Cisco Mobile Service-Aware Charging solution is based on the following features of the Cisco Content Service Gateway (CSG2):
- Charging
- IP packet inspection
- Credit limit enforcement
- Subscriber and application awareness
The CSG2 is available separately or as part of the Cisco Enhanced Gateway GPRS Support Node (eGGSN).
Cisco Mobile Service-Aware Charging provides:
- Dynamic examination and collection of content and services
- Control of subscribers’ services access.
- Enforcement of subscriber account balances
- The ability to offer and modify differentiated pricing for services
The Cisco Mobile Service-Aware Charging solution distinguishes between content and service types. Mobile operators can offer value-based subscriber billing options that make services more attractive or profitable, including charging by:
- Data volume
- Session duration
- Time of day
- Quality of service
- Pre-paid or post-paid calls
- Bill back to content providers for advertisements
Enhanced Billing Using Network Intelligence
The Cisco Content Services Gateway - Second Generation (CSG2) application is available separately or as part of the Cisco Enhanced Gateway GPRS Support Node (eGGSN) running on the Service and Application Module for IP (SAMI), deployed in the Cisco 7600 Series Router.
Cisco Mobile Service-Aware Charging Solution
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Cisco Gateway GPRS Support Node (GGSN)
The Cisco Gateway GPRS Support Node (GGSN) is a high-performance data gateway supporting advanced mobile broadband data services for mobile operators.
Cisco Content Services Gateway - Second Generation (CSG2)
The CSG2 provides flexible policy management, charging, deep packet inspection, and subscriber and application awareness capabilities that help mobile operators differentiate mobile data services.
Cisco Packet Data Serving Node (PDSN)
The Cisco Packet Data Serving Node (PDSN) provides primary wireless mobile data access to the Internet, intranets, and Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) servers.
Cisco 7600 Series Routers
Best-selling Cisco 7600 Series Routers are deployed in the edge and radio access network (RAN) of mobile Internet networks.
