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Frameworx Application: Usage Management

Category: (1) TAM Application Type

Application Identifier: 7.14

Maturity Level: 4

Overview

Usage Management is the conduit for usage events of various types and formats from the different event generating functions like networks, applications, infrastructures, “Management and Control” etc.  to various processes such as billing, legal compliance, and service assurance.  Usage Event records are collected/processed, edited, correlated, enriched, formatted and distributed to upstream systems. It is not necessary that all usage events are always charged but might be used for enrichment of other usage events.
The Usage Management function supports various types of charging for sessions and events, for example, application instance, Max/Min usage based on flexible time intervals or active users of the application in both batch and real-time.

Functionality

Usage Management functionality includes:

  • Usage Events Processing
  • Usage Events Error Management

Supported Business Services

This was created from the Frameworx 16.0 Model


Created from the TM Forum Model Frameworx 16.0.0 on 6/13/2016 at 22:30