Credit Control Application (Cca) In Ecs; How Credit Control Application (Cca) Works For Prepaid Billing - Cisco ASR 5000 Series Administration Manual

Enhanced Charging Service Overview

Credit Control Application (CCA) in ECS

This section describes the credit control application that is used to implement real-time credit-control for a variety of
end user services such as network access, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) services, messaging services, download
services, and so on. It provides a general solution to the real-time cost and credit control.
CCA with RADIUS or Diameter interface uses a mechanism to allow the user to be informed of the charges to be levied
for a requested service. In addition, there are services such as gaming and advertising that may debit from a user
account.

How Credit Control Application (CCA) Works for Prepaid Billing

The following figure and steps describe how CCA works with in a GPRS/UMTS or CDMA-2000 network for prepaid
billing.
Figure 10.
Table 6. Prepaid Charging in GPRS/UMTS/CDMA-2000 Networks
Step Description
No.
1 Subscriber session starts.
2 System sends request to CCA for subscriber's quota.
Prepaid Charging in GPRS/UMTS/CDMA-2000 Networks
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