Business Control Layer

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A Business Control Layer (BCL) is a marketing term used in 2006 for software layer of a telecommunications network provider residing between the network operations support system (OSS) and its business support system.[1] It helps providers by selling bundling, customer-recognition, and hierarchies. Taking all customer interaction into account, from all services (voice, data, content) and all sources, (the network and customer-premises equipment) the business control layer is capable of dynamically adapting network or service behavior, at customer level, to improve operators' transaction revenue and customer experience.

Functions include:

  1. Ability to simultaneously collect events from any source
  2. Balance management
  3. Business rules engine
  4. Dynamic real-time execution and provisioning
  5. On-line charging and rating.

Service over the Internet Protocol (IP), IP Multimedia Subsystem, and Packet Cable Multi-Media (PCMM) requires real-time network changes.

A press release mentioned that Telenet, NV used the technology from FTS Software in their TeleMeter service in 2006.[1]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Yankee Group Reveals How the Business Control Layer Can Drive Service Provider Innovation". News release (FTS). October 9, 2006. 
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