# Communication Service Reference

# Document Roadmap

This chapter describes the audience for and the organization of this document. It includes:

- Document Scope and Audience
- Guide to this Document
- Terminology
- Related Documentation

## Document Scope and Audience

This document provides a detailed reference for information that is specific to individual communication services. It includes:

- An overview of each communication service’s functioning
- The network protocols each application facing interface supports
- Configuration specifics, including communication service specific:

- Charging Data Records
- Event Data Records

This document will be of use to system administrators charged with installing and maintaining Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper, as well as managers, support engineers, and sales and marketing people. For an overview of the characteristics that all communication services have in common, please see the “Introducing Communication Services” chapter in Concepts and Architectural Overview, another document in this set.

## Guide to this Document

This document contains the following chapters:

Document Roadmap. This chapter

Parlay X 3.0 Audio Call Communication Service. Information on the communication service that supports the Parlay X 3.0 Audio Call interface

Parlay X 2.1 Third Party Call Communication Services. Information on the communication services that support the Parlay X 2.1 Third Party Call interface

Parlay X 3.0 Third Party Call Communication Service. Information on the communication service that supports the Parlay X 3.0 Third Party Call interface

Parlay X 2.1 Call Notification Communication Service. Information on the communication service that supports the Parlay X 2.1 Call Notification interface

Parlay X 3.0 Call Notification Communication Service. Information on the communication service that supports the Parlay X 3.0 Call Notification interface

Parlay X 2.1 Short Messaging Communication Service. Information on the communication service that support the Parlay X 2.1 Short Messaging interface

Extended Web Services Binary SMS Communication Service. Information on the communication service that supports Extended Web Service Binary SMS interface

Parlay X 2.1 Multimedia Messaging Communication Service. Information on the communication services that support the Parlay X 2.1 Multimedia Messaging interface

Parlay X 3.0 Payment Communication Services. Information on the communication services that support the Parlay X 3.0 Payment interface

Parlay X 2.1 Terminal Location Communication Services.Information on the communication services that support the Parlay X 2.1 Terminal Location interface

Parlay X 2.1 Presence Communication Service. Information on the communication service that supports the Parlay X 2.1 Presence interface

EWS Subscriber Profile Communication Service. Information on the communication service that supports the Extended Web Services Subscriber Profile interface.

Extended Web Services WAP Push Communication Service. Information on the communication service that supports the Extended Web Services WAP Push Message interface

Native MM7 Communication Service. Information on the communication service that supports the Native MM7 interface.

Native SMPP Communication Service. Information on the communication service that supports the Native SMPP interface.

## Terminology

The following terms and acronyms may be used in this document:

- Account—A registered application or service provider. An account belongs to an account group, which is tied to a common SLA
- Account group—Multiple registered service providers or services which share a common SLA
- Administrative User—Someone who has privileges on the Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper management tool. This person has an administrative user name and password
- Alarm—The result of an unexpected event in the system, often requiring corrective action
- API—Application Programming Interface
- Application—A TCP/IP based, telecom-enabled program accessed from either a telephony terminal or a computer
- Application-facing Interface—The Application Services Provider facing interface
- Application Service Provider—An organization offering application services to end users through a telephony network
- AS—Application Server
- Application Instance—An Application Service Provider from the perspective of internal Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper administration. An Application Instance has a user name and password
- CBC—Content Based Charging
- End User—The ultimate consumer of the services that an application provides. An end user can be the same as the network subscriber, as in the case of a prepaid service or they can be a non-subscriber, as in the case of an automated mail-ordering application where the subscriber is the mail-order company and the end user is a customer to this company
- Enterprise Operator —See Service Provider
- Event—A trackable, expected occurrence in the system, of interest to the operator
- Communication Service—A mechanism by which a particular telecom network capability is made available to Internet based applications. It consists of an application-facing interface (north), a generic capability, and a network-facing interface (south).
- HA —High Availability
- HTML—Hypertext Markup Language
- IP—Internet Protocol
- JDBC—Java Database Connectivity, the Java API for database access
- Location Uncertainty Shape—A geometric shape surrounding a base point specified in terms of latitude and longitude. It is used in terminal location
- MAP—Mobile Application Part
- Mated Pair—Two physically distributed installations of Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper nodes sharing a subset of data allowing for high availability between the nodes
- MM7—A multimedia messaging protocol specified by 3GPP
- MPP—Mobile Positioning Protocol
- Network Plug-in—The Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper module that implements the interface to a network node or OSA/Parlay SCS through a specific protocol
- NS—Network Simulator
- OAM —Operation, Administration, and Maintenance
- Operator—The party that manages the Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper. Usually the network operator
- OSA—Open Service Access
- PAP—Push Access Protocol
- Plug-in—See Network Plug-in
- Plug-in Manager—The Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper module charged with routing an application-initiated request to the appropriate network plug-in
- Policy Engine—The Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper module charged with evaluating whether a particular request is acceptable under the rules
- Quotas—Access rule based on an aggregated number of invocations. See also Rates
- Rates—Access rule based on allowable invocations per time period. See also Quotas
- Rules—The customizable set of criteria - based on SLAs and operator-desired additions - according to which requests are evaluated
- SCF—Service Capability Function or Service Control Function, in the OSA/Parlay sense.
- SCS—Service Capability Server, in the OSA/Parlay sense. Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper can interact with these on its network-facing interface
- Service Capability—Support for a specific kind of traffic within Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper. Defined in terms of communication services
- Service Provider—See Application Service Provider
- SIP—Session Initiation Protocol
- SLA—Service Level Agreement
- SMPP—Short Message Peer-to-Peer Protocol
- SMS—Short Message Service
- SMSC—Short Message Service Centre
- SNMP—Simple Network Management Protocol
- SOAP—Simple Object Access Protocol
- SPA—Service Provider APIs
- SS7—Signalling System 7
- Subscriber—A person or organization that signs up for access to an application. The subscriber is charged for the application service usage. See End User
- SQL—Structured Query Language
- TCP—Transmission Control Protocol
- USSD—Unstructured Supplementary Service Data
- VAS—Value Added Service
- VLAN—Virtual Local Area Network
- VPN—Virtual Private Network
- Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper Core—The container that holds the Core Utilities
- Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper Core Utilities—A set of utilities common to all communication services
- WSDL —Web Services Definition Language
- XML—Extended Markup Language

## Related Documentation

This communication service reference is a part of the Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper documentation set. The other documents include:

- System Administrator’s Guide
- Concepts and Architectural Overview
- Installation Guide
- Integration Guidelines for Partner Relationship Management
- Managing Accounts and SLAs
- Statement of Compliance and Protocol Mapping
- Application Development Guide
- SDK User Guide
- Handling Alarms
- Licensing
- Platform Development Studio - Developer’s Guide
- Platform Test Environment
- RESTful Application Development