Statistics available for: Channels Users User Entitlements Channel Settings

Billing according to: Traffic volume Connection time Flat fee

Key components: DVB/IP GW statistics generator Statistics - WEB interface

The main task of the Statistics and Billing module is to gather Statistical data for DVB/IP GW Channels/services and Users for purpose of System Maintenance and Billing.

• Generates and displays Channel and User statistics from DVB/IP GW
• Allows to define billing methods and pricing for each individual channel
• Generates bills in defined accounting periods
• Statistics can be run at any OS with WEB, PHP support and MySQL
• Serves for Service provider as well as for end-users
• Generates statistics for all services supported by Main Data technologies:
• Internet Single Route
• Internet Multi Route
• BFTP channels
• PUSH mail
• PUSH FTP - Download Center
• Allows to charge according to traffic volume, connection time or flat fee
• Allows to define Service Time Zones (peak hours) and define different pricing for individual time zones
• Supports 3 time zones (peak hours)
• Allows to define peak-off days (where no peak hours are applied)
• Graph output
• Table output
• Generates and sends passwords for end-users to access statistics web page

• Generate bills for individual Users according to services they are entitled for and billing system specified.
• Setup general billing rules for entire billing system:
• Currency
• Accounting period etc.
• Setup pricing for individual services like
• Billing model
• Price for unit

For each individual service there can be different billing type set. Nowadays the system suports 3 different models of billing:

• Volume Based
• Connection Time based
• Flat Feed

	Time Based	Volume Based	Flat Fee
IP Multi Route	YES	YES	YES
IP Single Route	YES	YES	YES
BFTP Multicast	NO	YES	YES
BFTP Unicast	NO	YES	YES