Company: Jio
Product Name: Jio Rating and Charging System (JRCS)
Conformance Type: Product Conformance
eTOM & SID  version: 21.5
Assessment Completion Date: July 2022
Detailed Certification Report: Jio Rating and Charging System Business Process Framework (eTOM) v21.5 & Information Framework v21.5

General Overview

This document provides details of JIO’s Self-Assessment of JIO’s Rating and Charging System (JRCS) product, against the following ODA Core Frameworks:

• • Business Process Framework (eTOM) version 21.5
  • Information Framework (SID) version 21.5

The assessment included a review of the methodology approach to process and information modeling, respectively against the TM Forum’s Business Process Framework (eTOM) and the Information Framework (SID) according to the specific processes and entities submitted in scope for the Assessment.

Product Functionality/Capability Overview

JIO’s Rating and Charging System (JRCS), is the next gen, flexible, scalable, cloud native, convergent Rating and Charging platform providing both online and offline charging capabilities. It is compliant to 3gpp and aligned to TM Forum’s Frameworx. Segregation of business and technical layer provides the flexibility to configure complex business rules through intuitive GUI. These rules take effect immediately with zero downtime. It provides quick switchover to Disaster Recovery Site. The platform has been rolled-out in one of the regions and planned to be progressively rolled out to cover 400 million customers. 

TM Forum’s Business Process Framework (eTOM) followed to identify, design, and develop automated business processes to run as an efficient and agile cloud native IT digital platform. It helped in increasing the overall operational efficiency, driving down the project cost and reducing the integration time frame.

TM Forum’s Information Framework (SID) enabled building the canonical data model to streamline the business processes. The SID provided standard information vocabulary, framework, and model reduced the time to market, integration cost, and management time and cost.

The Application Framework (TAM) followed to define Service Interfaces & Schemas to facilitate creation & assembly of process implementations.

Business Process Framework (eTOM) Level 2 Process Scope and Information Framework (SID) ABEs Scope

The following two figures represent the Business Process Framework Level 2 processes and the SID ABEs that were presented in scope for conformance certification.

Overview of Architectural Blueprint

An overview of c component level architecture is as follows:

JRCS Component Level Architecture

JIO’s Rating and Charging System (JRCS) Benefits

As new business models emerge, and the networks start to evolve and consolidate, there is a need for the future operations model.
Following are the benefits of JIO’s Rating and Charging System (JRCS).

•  Flexible Real-time rating and charging
  •  Centralized rule configuration for various types of Rating and Charging needs
  • 100% accurate and real-time rating and charging processing without any manual intervention
• Fully configurable tariff system
  • Unique, differentiating service bundles for all customer segments
• Scalable & resilient
  • Horizontally scalable platform uses highly engineered caching layer and self-healing design to automatically recover from outages
• Security at all Layers
  • Applying defence-in-depth approach with security controls in all layers. i.e. Coding, Application, Hardware, Network and People practice
• Open-Source Technologies
  • Microservices based cloud native architecture ensures each feature is independently developed, enhanced, and deployed with zero downtime
• Configurable
  • Based on declarative principles where all components are independently designed and can be configured using backend
• Compliance and Compatibility
  • Compliance to global standards such as 3GPP, TMForum ODA framework and 5G and IOT Ready
• API Based Integrations
  • Reusable common services for Recharge, Usage and provisioning
  • API driven interfaces maximize compatibility with third party infrastructure.
• Future-proof product roadmap
  • Enable real-time convergent charging to embrace future technological changes

Detailed Certification Report: Jio Rating and Charging System Business Process Framework (eTOM) v21.5 & Information Framework v21.5

For more information on JIO’s Rating and Charging System (JRCS), please contact:

Manish Gandhi
JRCS Platform Lead, JIO Platforms
Email: [email protected]

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