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Product Name: Real-time Rating and Charging Suite (formely SurePay® Solution)

Product Description

The Alcatel-Lucent Real-Time Rating and Charging Suite (SurePay®) provides an
operator with a multitude of rating and charging options for services – whether
voice and/or data, or prepaid and/or postpaid – in real time and in any
combination.

The Real-Time Rating and Charging Suite (SurePay®) can also be deployed
simultaneously in multiple networks including wireless, wireline and IMS and has
additional capabilities to provide loyalty management, HomeZone/OfficeZone,
m-payments, billing solution and scratch cards/recharge cards. The solution can
also integrate third-party billing systems and CRM systems to expand your
billing alternatives.


Benefits
Speed deployment of new, loyalty-based, marketing promotions
Streamline operations and reduce operating expenses by centralizing management
Support end-user customization
Allow networks to evolve with less impact to end-user applications

Features
Centralized tariff, promotion and loyalty management
Versatile and flexible promotions provisioning based on tariffs, rates,
discounts, bonuses, usage patterns, time and account lifecycle
Lucent Vortex™ policy management service to create, mix and match new and
modified promotions
Centralized management, administration and reporting
Simultaneous support for multiple networks including IMS, wireless and wireline
networks
Open interfaces based on industry standards for easy integration with existing
systems in the network
Benefits

• The Real-Time Rating and Charging Suite (SurePay®) speeds time-to-market
  for new tariffs, promotions and loyalty programs across all networks in a
  prepaid/postpaid environment.


• Dynamically mix-and-match tariffs for voice and data applications to
  quickly adjust to the needs of new or existing market segments


• Apply tariffs and promotions in either a prepaid service, postpaid service
  or both simultaneously


• Configure and scale application for high availability and high-reliability


• Streamline operations by providing centralized management and
  administration for both prepaid and postpaid offers


• Enhance and extend the application to support end-user personalization
  through the Alcatel-Lucent Vortex™ rules engine


• Allow networks to evolve while minimizing the impact to end-user
  applications


• Reduce operating expenses through centralized management and reporting for
  multiple networks

• Dynamically launch new tariffs and promotion packages


• Provide flexible loyalty management capabilities


• Uniquely address individual market segments for subscriber-base


• Partitioned to support MVNE/MVNO


• Enhance and extend application to support personalization by individual
  subscribers

• Easy integration with legacy third-party systems

• Minimize training requirements through consistent administration,
  management and reporting for all rating and charging needs – prepaid and
  postpaid

Company Details

Formed from the merger of Alcatel and Lucent Technologies, Alcatel-Lucent combines two entities that share a common lineage that can be traced back to 1986, when Alcatel’s parent company, CGE (la Compagnie Générale d’Electricité), acquired... more