1 Introduction
Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management (BRM) and Elastic Charging Engine (ECE) are a proven, pre-integrated solution spanning mediation, 2G to 5G converged charging, billing, and end-to-end revenue management. The solution enables techco CSPs to monetize any network, service, experience, or business model, at any scale, using cloud infrastructure.
About BRM and ECE
- Flexible service, and industry business model support.
- Faster innovation: rapid launch of digital offers with design-time flexibility.
- IT agility: modern cloud native deployment model with low total cost of ownership, designed to be deployed in public and private cloud infrastructure.
Oracle’s BRM has been designed to support the efficient scheduling and running of high performance billing and invoicing tasks, running on cloud native infrastructure. Billing and invoicing are multithreaded applications designed to optimally utilize the available compute resources to ensure large scale jobs are completed in the minimum time.
ECE, powered by industry leading in-memory grid technology, has been designed from the outset to support the technical and business monetization demands for hyperscale digital communications providers. It is a digital experience engine for the 5G era, providing 3GPP aligned real-time converged data and communications session charging and balance management, with native integration into Oracle’s full suite of billing and revenue management capabilities designed in accordance with TM Forum principles.
ECE uses mesh-based in-memory technology to provide high performance, resilient and linearly scalable charging, with pre-integrations available to advanced revenue management capabilities. Built around network and IT industry standards, ECE uses an innovative high performance and coherent data management architecture to support near-linear scalability, low latency, and highly available geographically redundant deployments with transactional consistency.
Purpose and Scope
This document is designed to provide an insight to the measured performance and capacity of BRM, ECE, and Offline Mediation Controller deployed in a Cloud Native lab Environment (CNE) setup.
These are just references, since the actual performance of the system can vary significantly based on the details of the infrastructure. It is recommended that BRM, ECE, and Offline Mediation Controller are run through a benchmark on the target cloud native infrastructure to determine the capacity and performance in the target infrastructure.