Description of the illustration cn_brm_architecture.png

This figure shows a diagram of the BRM cloud native deployment architecture. The architecture consists of a Kubernetes cluster, which sits in the middle of the architecture. It includes all Network Integration pods, Offline Mediation Controller pods, API Integration pods, In-Memory Charging Grid (ECE) pods, Billing (BRM) pods, and UX Pods.

• Network Integration pods: This consists of the following:

  • RADIUS Gateway

  • Diameter Gateway

  • HTTP/2 (CHF) Gateway

  • CDR Formatter (CGF)

• Offline Mediation pods: This consists of the following:

  • Offline Mediation Administrator

  • Offline Mediation Node Manager

• API Integration pods: This consists of the following:

  • SOAP Web Service APIs

  • REST APIs

  • TM Forum Open APIs

• In-Memory Charging Grid (ECE) pods: This consists of the following:

  • Real-time Customer Sync (from BRM)

  • Pricing Data Sync

  • Customer Loader (from BRM)

  • Elastic Charging Server

  • CDR Gateway (CDF)

  • Business Logic Calls (to BRM)

  • Rated Event Formatter

• Billing (BRM) pods: This consists of the following:

  • Rated Event Loader

  • BRM Schema Init.

  • Account Migration Tool

  • Paymentech Data Manager

  • HTML Invoice Formatter

  • BOC Job Executor (PJE)

  • EAI Java Server

  • Discounting

  • Batch Pipeline

  • EAI Data Manager

  • Roaming Pipeline

  • Business Logic Server (CM)

  • Invoice Data Manager

  • Kafka Data Manager

  • LDAP Data Manager

  • Email Data Manager

  • Vertex Data Manager

  • Oracle Data Manager

• The User Experience pods: This consists of the following:

  • Pricing Design Center

  • Billing Care

  • Business Operations Center

  • Pipeline Configuration Center

• The Cloud Native Infrastructure and Tooling: This consists of the following:

  • Container Runtime

  • Container Orchestrator

  • Packaging and Deployment

  • CI/ CD

  • Cloud Infrastructure

  • Observability

  • Networking

  • Volume Storage

  • Event Streaming (Notifications)

• The Data Tier: This consists of the following:

  • Oracle Database