Price: $1,999.00

Course Number: 546
Length: 3 Days
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TONEX’s CAMEL Training, Customized Applications for Mobile Enhanced Logic Training Course
CAMEL training (Customized Applications for Mobile Network enhanced Logic) provides a comprehensive, up-to-date, and easy to understand treatment of business, technical and operational aspects of CAMEL (Customized Applications for Mobile Enhanced Logic) applied to 3GPP networks.

CAMEL is a network feature and not a supplementary service and a value added tool for the mobile operators to provide the subscribers with the operator specific services even when roaming in the another network.

CAMEL is evolved with several phases to provide mobile operators with CAMEL functionality applied to different features.  The CAMEL application protocol (CAP) was built on the top of Intelligent Networks (IN) and ETSI’s INAP.

TONEX CAMEL training is a is a technical course covering IN and CAMEL key concepts, architecture, phases, features, service logic design, Operations & Parameters, signaling procedures,  call flows, and future trends for CAMEL evolving of SIP and Diameter protocols as alternative solutions based on PCRF and On line and Offline Charging System (OCS/OFCS).
Learning Objectives

  • Describe concepts behind Intelligent Networks (IN)
  • Describe IN Functional Entities
  • Explain the conceptual and theoretical aspects of CAMEL
  • Describe how CAMEL relate to Intelligent Networks
  • Understand the Architecture, Functional Enteritis, and Key Components of CAMEL
  • Describe the various phases and feature of CAMEL
  • Design CAMEL based service logic
  • Understand the concept, basic functionality, main features, architecture of CAMEL phase 2
  • Understand CAMEL phase 2 on-line Charging Control (on-line changing for post-paid)
  • Describe Credit reservation and its interaction with network call flow
  • Understand CAMEL call flows and interaction with network services (
  • Describe basic call flows (MO and MT) and key parameters
  • Describe call forwarding, Explicit Call Transfer, Announcement, Multiparty, Closed User Group,Call Barring, Basic Optimal Routing, Immediate Service Termination, Operator-determined Barring, High-speed Circuit-switched Data, Multiple Subscriber Profile Roaming
  • Describe the advantages of CAMEL phase 3 and 4
  • Understand the future development trend for CAMEL

Course Content and Agenda

GERAN and UMTS/HSPA Services and Features

  • Role of SS7 in Mobile networks
  • GSM, GPRS and UMTS/HSPA/HSPA+ Operation Scenarios
  • Attachment
  • MOC and MTC
  • Call Setup
  • MTC and MOC
  • Basic Services
  • Supplementary Services
  • SMS
  • USSD
  • Handover
  • SS7, TCAP, MAP and CAP
  • Sigtran (M2UA, M3UA, SUA)

Intelligent Network (IN) Functional Entities and Architecture

  • SCEF (Service Creation Environment Function)
  • SCF (Service Control Function)
  • SMF (Service Management Function)
  • SSF (Service Switching Function)
  • IN Service Examples
  • IN Platforms such as SCP and SSP
  • BCSM (Basic Call State Model)
  • DP (Detection Point)
  • EDP (Event Detection Point)
  • O-BCSM (Originating Basic Call State Model)
  • T-BCSM (Terminating Basic Call State Model)
  • PIC (Point In Call)

Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN)

  • AIN Components
  • Intelligent Peripheral (IP)
  • Service Creation Environment (SCE)
  • Service Control Point (SCP)
  • Service Management Point (SMP)
  • Service Switching Point (SSP)
  • AIN Service Examples

Concepts Behind CAMEL

  • What is CAMEL?
  • SS-CSI (Supplementary Service Notification CAMEL Subscription Information)
  • O-CSI (Originating CAMEL Subscription Information)
  • T-CSI (Terminating CAMEL Subscription Information)
  • gsmSCF (GSM Service Control Function)
  • gsmSRF (GSM Specialized Resource Function)
  • gsmSSF (GSM Service Switching Function)
  • Relationships between CAMEL and IN
  • CAMEL Standards and Specifications
  • CAMEL Phases
  • CAMEL Architecture
  • CAMEL Functional Entities
  • CAMEL Components
  • HLR, GMSC, MSC/VLR
  • CAMEL Detection Point Description
  • gsmSCF, gsmSSF, gsmSRF, gprsSSF
  • CAP and MAP based Interfaces
  • MAP operations supporting CAMEL
  • CAMEL subscription data: OCSI, TCSI, U/UGCSI, SSCSI
  • Mobile Originated Call (MOC)
  • Mobile Terminated Call (MOT)
  • Call Handling
  • Monitoring of calls
  • CS and PS charging
  • CAMEL Features (MO, MT, MF calls)
  • Basic Call State Model (BCSM)
  • OBCSM, TBCSM, BCSM
  • Call Scenarios
  • Service design Examples
  • Subscription Data (O-CSI, T-CSI, USSD-CSI)

Applicability of CAMEL procedures

  • Mobile Originated and Mobile Terminated Call Related Activities
  • Circuit switched basic services without distinction
  • Supplementary Services Invocation
  • GPRS sessions and PDP contexts
  • Mobile Originating/Terminating SMS through both CS and PS serving network entities IP multimedia services (IMS) (except Emergency calls) to support legacy services
  • IP multimedia sessions addressed by either E.164 numbers or SIP URLs

CAMEL Phases

  • What is CAMEL?
  • Full portfolio of IN services
  • CAMEL phase 1
  • Entities and interfaces in CAMEL phase 1
  • Phase 2 enhancements and functionality
  • gsmSRF and USSD
  • Extra charging features in CAMEL phase 2 operation
  • Prepaid solutions in CAMEL phase 2
  • Role of gsmSRF
  • gsmSCF – gsmSRF interface
  • Terminating Call Example
  • MSC gsmSCFCAMEL Phase 3 enhancements and functionality
  • CAMEL enhancements for GPRS
  • CAMEL Phase 4 Enhancements & CAP
  • CAMEL in the UMTS R4/IMS
  • CAMEL phase 4 functionality
  • CAMEL Application Part (CAP) specification for IMS
  • CAMEL phase 4 additions in Release 6
  • CAP Types for CAMEL/IMS interworking

CAMEL Procedures

  • Procedures for Mobile Originated Calls and Forwarded Calls Procedures for Mobile Terminated Calls
  • Procedures for Call Party Handling
  • Procedures for SMS
  • Procedures for GPRS Data Transmission
  • Notifications of nontraffic events to the CSE
  • CSE interrogation and control of subscription data
  • Subscriber interactions with the CSE
  • Charging Activities
  • Exceptional procedures or unsuccessful outcome
  • CSE related congestion control
  • Interactions with supplementary services
  • Interactions with Operator Determined Barring (ODB)
  • Interactions with Optimal Routing (OR)
  • Interactions with video call and SCUDIF call
  • Location Information
  • Cross Phase compatibility with future Phases of CAMEL

CAMEL Call Handling

  • Connect
  • Continue
  • Release Call operations
  • Monitoring of calls
  • Arming, disarming and reporting event
  • BCSM detection points
  • Request Report BCSM Event
  • Event Report BCSM
  • Call Information Request,
  • Call Information Report operations and parameters

Principles behind CAMEL CS charging

  • Apply Charging
  • Apply Charging Report
  • Furnish Charging Information
  • Send Charging Information operations and parameters
  • SRF interactions
  • Connect to Resource
  • Play Announcement
  • Prompt and Collect User Information
  • Assist Request Instructions
  • Specialized Resource Report
  • Establish Temporary Connection
  • Disconnect Forward Connection operations and parameters
  • Scenarios and Examples

Principles behind GPRS and PS charging

  • Initial DP GPRS
  • Connect GPRS
  • Continue GPRS
  • Charging GPRS
  • Apply Charging Report GPRS
  • Event Report GPRS
  • Cancel GPRS
  • Entity Released GPRS
  • Furnish Charging Information GPRS
  • Release GPRS operations and parameters
  • Scenarios and Examples

IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) Call Control

  • IMSSF  gsmSCF Interface
  • Operations and arguments
  • gsmSCF/gsmSRF interface
  • Detailed operation procedures
  • ActivityTest procedure
  • ApplyCharging procedure
  • ApplyChargingReport procedure
  • CallGap procedure
  • CallInformationReport procedure
  • CallInformationRequest procedure
  • Cancel procedure
  • Connect procedure
  • ConnectToResource procedure
  • Continue procedure
  • ContinueWithArgument Procedure
  • DisconnectForwardConnection procedure
  • EventReportBCSM procedure
  • FurnishChargingInformation procedure
  • InitialDP procedure
  • ReleaseCall procedure
  • RequestReportBCSMEvent procedure
  • ResetTimer procedure

CAMEL Trends

  • Solutions based on SIP
  • IMS Application Servers
  • Diameter based PCRF andOn line and Off-line Charging System (OCS/OFCS)

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