Module: sip-router Branch: tmp/ims_charging Commit: 5b3ef601025eeeda556b433b6257beaf88a7ee91 URL: http://git.sip-router.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi/sip-router/?a=commit;h=5b3ef60… Author: Carsten Bock &lt;carsten(a)ng-voice.com&gt; Committer: Carsten Bock &lt;carsten(a)ng-voice.com&gt; Date: Mon Sep 30 13:20:04 2013 +0200 ims_charging: Fixed minor typos in ims_charging-documentation --- modules/ims_charging/doc/ims_charging_admin.xml | 14 +++++++------- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/modules/ims_charging/doc/ims_charging_admin.xml b/modules/ims_charging/doc/ims_charging_admin.xml index b7d2d5a..86dd442 100644 --- a/modules/ims_charging/doc/ims_charging_admin.xml +++ b/modules/ims_charging/doc/ims_charging_admin.xml @@ -48,14 +48,14 @@ <section> <title>Understanding Charging in the IP-Multimedia-Subsystem (IMS)</title> <para>Before each service usage, the charging system must be asked for permission (credit authorization). The charging server must make a decision: Either authorize or deny the session. -For postpaid scenarios this is fairly easy: The charging-server only needs to collect the usage data for processing it at the end of the month. As no realtime account updating is needed, this is often called „offline-charging“. -For prepaid scenarios the charging server needs to know the user's account balance and it will need to update the account in real-time. This is often referred to as „online-charging“. - +For postpaid scenarios this is fairly easy: The charging-server only needs to collect the usage data for processing it at the end of the month. As no realtime account updating is needed, this is often called "offline-charging". +For prepaid scenarios the charging server needs to know the user's account balance and it will need to update the account in real-time. This is often referred to as "online-charging".</para> +<para> Question: What is the double of the Radius? -Answer: It's the Diameter! - -As quite often, we use the Diameter-Protocol to do the Charging in the IMS. And as quite often, IMS uses a huge bunch of acronyms to describe the different interfaces: We call the diameter-interface for offline-charging the „Rf“-interface and the interface for online charging the „Ro“-interface. - +Answer: It's the Diameter!</para> +<para> +As quite often, we use the Diameter-Protocol to do the Charging in the IMS. And as quite often, IMS uses a huge bunch of acronyms to describe the different interfaces: We call the diameter-interface for offline-charging the "Rf"-interface and the interface for online charging the "Ro"-interface.</para> +<para> Each system, that needs this credit authorization, have to be equipped with a proper charging trigger, a so-called charging-trigger-function (CTF) in order to communicate with the charging-server (also called charging-function): </para> <mediaobject>