Introduction to the Automatic Message Accounting Data Network System (AMADNS)
Lee E. Heindel
4901 Pine Cone Circle, Middleton, WI 53562
Email: leh_AT_execpc.com
Helen L. Hogan
Bellcore, 6 Corporate Place, Piscataway, NJ 08854
Vincent A. Kasten
295 Midway Avenue, Fanwood, NJ 07023
Abstract
With the ever increasing volume of billing data generated by the
telecommunications industry, it has become necessary for the
telecommunications industry to revisit the whole area of billing data
collection, starting with Automatic Message Accounting (AMA) data, and
evolving to the future sources of charging20
data. The Automatic Message Accounting Data Networking System (AMADNS)
supports the collection, processing, transfer, and management of AMA
data from Generating Systems such as central office switches to an
array of applications. AMADNS systems must be well-structured and
flexible in ways that will support future generating systems as they are
integrated into the various different networks being created within the
telecommunications industry. This paper presents an introduction to the
generic requirements for AMADNS as presented in the Bellcore Generic
Requirements for the Automatic Message Accounting Data Networking System
(AMADNS), Issue 1, Bellcore document GR-1343-CORE [1,2].
Keywords: automatic message accounting, distributed billing systems, data networking, billing system architecture
JNSM: Vol. 5, No. 1, 1997
Introduction to the Automatic Message Accounting Data Network System (AMADNS) [Vol. 5, No. 1, 1997]
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