iCAS: A Comprehensive, Wholesale Billing and Settlement Solution
Infozech’s inter Carrier Access Settlement (iCAS) product is a wholesale billing and settlement solution that helps service providers/carriers manage their customers and interconnecting partners. iCAS enables the service provider to bill the interconnecting partners/carriers, audit the bills raised by carriers and provide insightful reporting for LCR and rates management.
iCAS supports multiple services that are necessary in today’s convergent telecommunications, traditional switch-based voice telephony, IP telephony and Internet service provider environments.
iCAS is targeted at carriers, service and content providers. iCAS enables them to manage their charging, billing & Settlement and reconciliation needs.
Features
iCAS provides the carriers with all the necessary functionality to perform the following:
- Partner Management
- Manage multiple interconnect partner accounts and contacts
- Rates Management
- Maintain buy and sell rates
- Model new rate plans and analyze their impact on costs and revenues
- Carry out mass updates on rates
- Data Management
- Define origination and termination gateways
- Import wizards to map various types of event data feeds
- Manage multiple simultaneous event data feeds from different gateways
- Manage gateways and services
- Carrier Reconciliation
- Reconcile bills of interconnecting partners by matching event data records
- Define differences in time zones and tolerance levels for matching events
- Billing & Settlement
- Define multiple billing cycles
- Capture costs for traffic carried through interconnecting partners
- Settle accounts of interconnecting partners through receipts, payments and settlement adjustments for disputed items
- Reporting—Traffic and management reports
- Query builder for creating user defined reports create user definable
- Off-the-shelf reports for LCR, revenue and traffic reports.
iCAS enables carriers rationalize termination settlement costs with accuracy. Using iCAS, carriers can work with multiple interconnect partners simultaneously and address overcharging issues. They can also assure revenue by managing their wholesale telecom business and control costs through reconciliation and auditing of the charges invoiced by interconnecting partners. iCAS also simplifies the billing and settlement process with partners and reduces errors, thereby improving revenue assurance.
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