SurePay

Release 17.3

SurePay provides real-time rating and charging capabilities for any network
technology and service type. With SurePay service providers can offer superior
postpaid, prepaid, and hybrid services for consumers and enterprises. It
enables the introduction of new business models and the evolution to digital
service providers.

Requirements for rating and charging systems

have changed significantly over the last few years
and continue to evolve. The most recent Nokia
Acquisition and Retention study shows that the #1
reason why subscribers leave a service provider is the
lack of suitable service offers. The ability to quickly
react to competitive threats and efforts to become
more customer-centric depends directly on the Nokia SurePay
capabilities of the charging system. The emergence
of the Internet of Things (IoT) brings a new
ecosystem of stakeholders and increased complexity
from a charging perpective. Moreover, the demand
to monetize forces service providers to work with
over-the-top application vendors and new partners.
Finally, the need to virtualize the charging function
requires a whole new level of flexibility in order to
support a wide range of deployment requirements.

1 Data sheet
Nokia SurePay
Features Usage, service level and application-based
plans: With the SurePay context-aware data flow
Highly flexible and easy to use charging, service providers can create tariffs that
address subcriber requirements
Web services application program interfaces (APIs)
Sponsored data and reward programs: Stimulate
Modular architecture
network usage with new business models.
Extremely reliable with five 9s availability
Scales for small and large service providers Personalize the subscriber
Flexible deployment options virtual and bare
metal experience
Centralized management. SurePay allows service providers to fine-tune
these offers with additional features to efficiently
personalize the subscriber experience in real time.
Benefits Examples include:
Helps service providers to rapidly launch and Convergent charging: SurePay supports
manage innovative new offers real-time rating, reporting, and charging with
Supports new and emerging business models re-rating processing capabilities for postpaid,
prepaid and hybrid subscriptions all in one
Opens different market segments with targeted convergent system
offers resulting in increased revenues
Quota management, regulatory spending and fair
Enables subscriber interaction for usage control usage controls are critical elements to maintain a
and personalized offers positive customer experience. They are enabled
Ensures a positive customer experience and by the SurePay ability to track and report in real
continuous revenue streams time
Reduces capital expenditures (CAPEX) and Flexible, intelligent push notifications to keep end
operating expenses (OPEX) with virtualized users informed and engaged with personalized
integrated network management messages.
Simplifies integration with other OSSs/BSSs.
Get to market quicker
Create compelling and With its easy-to-use tariff administration and
simulation tools SurePay allows service providers
profitable service offers to respond faster to competitive threats, market
trends and customer needs.
SurePay offers a wide range of service plans. A few
examples are:
Shared Plans: SurePay offers a multi-level group
Flexible deployment options
hierarchy architecture that is ideally suited to SurePay offers a range of deployment options
reflect an organizational structure where multiple suited to support networks of any size. The product
subscribers or devices share a common plan. can be deployed in a virtualized environment and is
Single level hierachy is ideally suited to support pre-integrated with Nokia CloudBand.
family groups or small businesses. SurePay was
involved in delivering the industrys first shared
data plan offer

2 Data sheet
Nokia SurePay
Availability and scalability RADIUS
SOAP
Availability is provided through local or geographic
redundancy. Load balancing distributes data SIP (VoIP)
transactions across multiple deployed servers, and SMPP
overload controls handle significant traffic peaks.
BSS integration
Scalability allows networks to grow while minimizing
the impact to end-user applications. Revenue FTP/SFTP
interruption is prevented by enabling the scalable SOAP/Web services
deployment of an online charging system in
XML
multiple nodes.
OSS integration
Simplified integration SNMP
SurePay is an integral part of the Nokia BSS TCP/IP
portfolio that offers policy management, customer Signaling
engagement and billing mediation capabilities.
SurePay has also been integrated with many SS7
products from other vendors, as well as Web SIGTRAN
services APIs that in turn allow integration with
partner systems. Deployment options
Hardware platforms
Technical specifications HP BladeSystem c7000: HP ProLiant BL460c
Gen9 Server Blade
Protocol and standards support
Voice/TDM integration HP ProLiant servers for rack-mount server
configurations: HP ProLiant DL380p Gen9
CAP (1/2 for voice, 3/4 for SMS) Server
INAP Virtualization options
MAP (V2, V3) OpenStack software: Kilo and Liberty
WIN (IS-826) Nokia CloudBand infrastructure software
IP data integration Life cycle management support: instantiation,
CAP 3 scaling and healing
Diameter (Ro, Gy and Sy) Virtual network function manager (VNFM)
integration
HTTP/XML
VMware ESXi 6.0
LDAP

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Product code: SR1701006366EN (January)

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