Day: 12 May 2017
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CGRates RALs Service
CGRateS Rating Services (RALS) This is a quick introduction to the CGRates RALs service. As the primary purpose of CGRateS is telecoms rating, this is probably the most important service on the system. This service performs rating and applies the results of that rating to balances. For instance, for prepaid calls, it can rate the…
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CGRateS Architecture
The main reference for CGRateS Architecture can be found on the CGRateS Documentation site. This is a high-level summary. Services CGRateS comprises a number of services which are designed to work together, but which can be run separately. There are some dependencies between these services so, that, for instance, running the CDR Server without the…
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CGRateS – A powerful Open Source rating engine
CGRateS (www.cgrates.org) is a powerful and flexible carrier grade rating engine that is also open source. It handles rating for any type of service you can think of, and supports real-time or offline session-based and event-based charging. It easily supports prepaid and postpaid charging schemes and also has the capability to support bundles and shared…
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Adventures in Telecoms
We are working on a series of blogs relating to Open Source Telecommunication applications. This may include product descriptions, tutorials, worked examples, or just plain experimentation.
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Enterprise contracts considered harmful
Enterprise IT contracts are an unavoidable fact of life in many large organisations. So much so, in fact, that they have almost become the norm. So what I’m about to say may be jarring to many. I believe Enterprise IT Contracts are regressive and harmful to an organisation. Let me be clear, by “Enterprise IT…