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Enhanced Charging Service Overview
Step b
actions include redirection, charge value, and billing record emission.
Charging Ruledefs and the Charging Engine
This section describes details of how charging ruledefs are applied to the output from the Protocol Analyzer Stack.
The following figure and the steps that follow describe the process of charging ruledefs and charging engines.
Figure 4.
Step 1
In the Classification Engine, the output from the deep-packet inspection is compared to the charging ruledefs. The
priority configured in each charging ruledef specifies the order in which the ruledefs are compared against the packet
inspection output.
The output of that analysis flows into the charging engine, where an action can be applied. Applied
Charging Ruledefs and Charging Engine
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