Carbon Billing

Carbon Standalone Billing (before ASR Ideco 3) is support system of business (OSS). A system offers necessary functionality solution billing for service provider on Internet access.

2020: Carbon Billing 5.42

On February 7, 2020 the Carbon Soft company announced release of release of Carbon Billing 5.42

Changes and additions in the versions of Carbon Billing 5.42 mentioned by the developer:

• One more method of the notification of subscribers is added: PUSH notifications.
• Integration with 24chasatv is finished and complete.
• Integration into the Federal Information Address System and adding of the addresses in the reference book are significantly finished.
• For the operators selling traffic on megabytes settings of total accounting of the entering and outbound traffic are added.

PUSH notifications

As noted in Carbon Soft, the easiest ways to save on sending messages to the subscriber — to use messengers or PUSH notifications, instead of expensive SMS. For mailing the user needs the Google account, on the website the SSL certificate should be configured.

24chasatv

The developer implemented planning of shutdown of services: if the subscriber connected a basic packet, then will be able to replace it with cheaper only next month. Also and with additional packets. The user can learn how to be integrated with service from documentation. If the user is already integrated, it will not be required to do any additional settings, emphasized in Carbon Soft.

Reference book of the addresses

According to the developer, in the provided version integration into the Federal Information Address System is expanded, the feature to specify various types of streets, buildings, subjects of the Russian Federation and td is added.

According to the developer, it is useful if the user provides services in areas where the address cannot be created the usual scheme "city, street, house", for example:

• "The Shchyolkovo district, the village of Baybaki, 41" — without the name of the street, in this village only houses
• the Lower Salda, Stroiteley Lane, 10 — in this city is both the lane, and Stroiteley Street, in the provided version it is possible to get both options.

A number of errors which in certain cases led to incorrect filling of the address or impossibility to start it is also corrected. Accounting of traffic

In those parts of the country where it is impossible or unprofitable to pull the optical cable, as a rule communication is provided via satellite. Satellite operators usually pay a band totally for the entering and outbound traffic, and the outbound traffic in such situation for the company costs much therefore there is a need when settling with the subscriber to consider as the entering channel, and outgoing. Such function was added to Carbon Billing 5.42.

2019

Carbon Billing 5.33

On March 12, 2019 the Carbon Soft company published large release of version 5.33.01.

The most important changes:

• Integration with ATOL Online - allows to connect easily online cash desk for web cash desk in billing of provider.
• Support of terminals of VeriFone - allows providers to receive payment from Sberbank directly on the checking account in Sberbank.
• The updated interface for employees. More convenient pagination is made, styles are updated, the design of separate forms is finished, clear system messages are implemented. All this will allow employees to work even quicker and more productively in the fresh interface.

Check on duplication of subscribers is also added - will allow to exclude errors of subscriber department when adding Internet users. It is implemented in the form of a tick which just needs to be noted in the corresponding point of settings.

Carbon Billing 5.32

The Carbon Soft company, the Russian software developer, announced on February 12, 2019 release of the next version of billing of Carbon Billing 5.32 for telecom operators. Developers carried out huge work on stability augmentation. Made changes in a core, corrected and finished the system of automatic monitoring, improved the system of automatic testing, entered corrections into the system of calculation of traffic, finished multithreading.

It is also implemented integration since SORM "January" 3 (The system of technical means for ensuring functions of investigation and search operations) from MFI Soft under the last requirements. Successful implementation took place at the 3rd internet-providers for January, 2019.

For the providers passing to Carbon Billing 5 from other billings standard process of unloading of base is implemented. At users the problem is not necessary more how to transfer base to Carbon Billing 5 - recently implemented the converter of base from ASR "Hydra" and ASR "UTM 5".

2018: Release of Carbon Billing 5.31

The Carbon Soft company announced on December 11, 2018 release of the version of Carbon Billing 5.31.

Updating of a billing system in release concerned not only internal processes of Internet service providers, but comfort and subscribers. Added QR codes for subscribers to version 5. Now, when billing, the subscriber can just scan the QR code and pay services without input of details that it is more convenient than traditional payment methods, noted in the company.

In a system the feature to use TLS connection is also added - the web interface of billing will be available also on HTTPS protocol now.

Besides, the behavior of search taking into account all requests of users is optimized, discrepancies and excess elements in issue are excluded. Results are completely relevant to a request now, at the same time a system works intuitively, developers claim.

It became simpler to heads to make and browse reports on desirable metrics, the chain from creation before obtaining the report is optimized.

2014

Carbon Billing 5.05.01

The Carbon Fabrics Software company released the version of billing of Carbon Billing 5/5/01. The main efforts were directed to improvement of interaction of technical support of provider and subscribers. The notification system of subscribers is expanded, diagnostics of faults of the equipment is added. The personal account is considerably improved the module HelpDesk is updated. Integration into the CR Pyrite and new versions of payment systems of Sberbank and the Kiwi is added.

Carbon Billing Softrouter 5.10

The CarbonSoft company released the next version of Carbon Billing Softrouter 5.10. It is the first industrial release for the last 2 years. The product is long-awaited continuation of Billing Softrouter 4, is constructed based on a stable lts-kernel of Linux 2.6.32. The main advantage - an opportunity to quickly unroll full business of the telecom operator for the town or the area.

Carbon Billing 5.04.01

In October, 2014 there was a version of billing for telecom operators of Carbon Billing 4/5/01 from CarbonSoft company List of changes: 1) Personal account. It became really beautiful, modern and convenient. Try, it is intuitive and simple.

• Simplicity of changes in a personal account. It is really simple. And just so what it also not technical specialists can do. The engine personal an office * is written on CMS Wordpress known and clear to much. Try and be convinced.
• Processed web cash desk. It became clear and simple in work. Work with money became simpler, became more pleasant and more comfortable.
• New scheme of post-payments. The subscriber uses now, pays then. It is necessary for much.
• The new counter – the speed of the subscriber is shown directly in the admin panel. A trifle, and it is pleasant.

Announcement of Carbon Billing 5

On February 14, 2014 the developer company of Carbon Soft announced Carbon Billing 5, having announced degree of readiness of software - "a status of a shrink-wrapped software product".

According to developers, a system is not improvement of Carbon Billing 4, but an essence in a revolutionary way by the new product which is solving a full range of problems of telecom operators, inherited the best at the predecessors.

In particular:

• The web interface is improved. Managers had an opportunity to transfer the link to the subscriber to messengers.

• Modern kernel of Linux and support of the newest equipment which part was not supported by the previous version of billing.

• The new architecture of billing provided flexibility of a product, a possibility of creation and connection of any expansions and additions, according to desires and business needs.

• Scalability and expansibility. Need to buy billing on each department disappeared, it is enough to purchase one license and to scale it - to distribute system modules on several servers.

• In a set own CRM which will allow to service and control subscribers is delivered, to conduct history, to create tasks and many other things.

• Documentary API as a part of the solution. It will help to integrate proprietary applications with billing.

• Support of multilingualism/multicurrency is put.

• Support of VOIP and IPTV will help to implement new services.

• The possibility of recalculation for any period of rendering services is included.

• The designer of reports who, according to statements of developers, will help to recreate that reporting which is required to the customer is implemented.

2013

Carbon Billing. Description

(Data are relevant for November, 2013)

Personal accounts, payment systems, 1C

• Maintaining personal accounts, agreements, financial transactions, automatic formation and printing of documents, setup of templates
• Billing allows to use payment cards for replenishment of balance, the card for anonymous single connection, the map with time limit for unlimited rates
• Possibility of hierarchical grouping of users with the big nesting level
• Import of non-cash payments from software the client bank
• Replenishment of balance bank cards
• Support of payment systems: OSMP, City, RoboKassa, ComePay, QuickPay, RPS, SFOUR, NCC, Mobilnik, Simfoniya and others
• Web interface of the cashier
• User-friendly ACP Manager graphical interface
• Billing has ability to integrate with external systems and 1C under different protocols

Tariffing

• Flexible rates, billing system gives the chance to set cost depending on subnets, volume and time of day, pre-paid traffic
• Services for subscribers: a temporary forcing, a packet of Megabytes, the bonus not burning down traffic
• Unlimited rates an opportunity to set speed depending on volume, time of day and subnets, a daily and monthly subscription fee, package and step rates
• Tariffing and shutdown in real time, mailing of warnings
• Possibility of accounting and write-off of additional periodic services
• Service of limited action for lease of the equipment
• Services of VoIP and stationary telephony
• Services of IPTV and cable television

Convenience of using

• Application for connection via the website
• The notification of users about successful replenishment of balance
• Personal account of the user — statistics, change of a rate and the password, the history of transactions, notifications, etc.
• The full-fledged website of provider on CMS CodeIgniter
• Increase in ARPU of subscribers due to lease of the popular software from the platform RentSoft
• Password generator of subscribers
• Server of sending messages
• Distribution of powers to additional administrators and operators

Reference books, OSS/BSS

• Reference books of houses, switches, ports of switches, NAS, routers and other equipment.
• Accounting and control of switches, ports. Subscriber's binding to the house, switch, port, vlan.

Analytics

• The module of statistic reports, allows to analyze information: the number of users on rates, a payment flow, inflow of subscribers
• The module of financial statements according to documents
• The module are any reports
• Storage of detailed statistics of visits of src-dst in a compact format, viewing through a personal account, TOP 100

Control of the equipment

• Support of NetFlow and RADIUS
• Support of SNMP, CoA, SSH, Telnet for management of network equipment
• Support of routers and NAS servers: Carbon AS 3, CISCO, SUN, MikroTik, D-Link, NSG,Revolution, Nomadix, PC router, Huawei, hotspot
• Support of SORM
• Support of VoIP, IPTV

Integration into third-party program systems

• REST is full access to all functions business of logic
• SOAP is access to the majority of functions business of logic
• Direct access to stored procedures of a DB
• Access from the command line and from scripts of bash, php, perl, python

Program capabilities for hotels, higher education institutions and office centers in the version of Campus

• Own mail server with the built-in antispam
• Web server, possibility of caching of traffic and antivirus
• Support of several Internet channels, reservation and automatic switching
• Billing

Advantages

• The simplest installation and management from all billing of the systems presented at the market. The billing Carbon Standalone Billing 4 program is completely ready-made solution, is established from one compact disk on the "empty" computer and at once is ready to work.
• It is ideal billing for provider of the initial and average level working within the city or the area.
• Basic delivery switches on all functional modules, necessary for work
• Billing the program imposes the minimum requirements to maintenance and qualification of technicians.
• Flexible scheme of licensing. A possibility of gradual increase in the license, together with growth of your business.
• To start work in the additional software and OS is not required. In the version billing of the SoftRouter program is enough to have the server and the channel of connection to higher provider.
• Support of distributed networks, allows to connect up to 100000 subscribers.
• Accounting of traffic and shutdown of subscribers in real time.
• ASR Ideco 3 is based on Linux, has the unprecedented reliability comparable with hardware solutions.
• The built-in module of fault tolerance will recover billing a system even in case of failure.
• There are multi-level systems of protection of the server against external threats.
• The free help in deployment, to a demo period is 60 days.

Carbon Billing 4.2

On October 30, 2013 the Carbon Soft company announced a release of the new version of the OSS solution Carbon Billing 4.2.

Innovations

• online-updating - need for switching off of the server is excluded. All updates happen online.
• new Tray Agent - new Tray Agent extends according to the license GPL. Its setup is available means of billing, there is a possibility of complete alteration of the interface under requirements of the customer.
• VoIP support is improved - the bigger number of reports is provided for monitoring of calls of subscribers. The interface for work with tariff plans and the directions is improved.
• the improved module IpTV is purpose of parameters and services of IpTV it is transparent.

2012: Carbon Standalone Billing 4 SoftRouter

In addition includes following features:

• The fastest deployment for the beginning providers
• The opportunity for work without additional router, the server of ASR Ideco 3 acts as the router
• Authorization of users on VPN-PPTP, PPPoE, L2TP, IP+MAC, IdecoAgent, the web interface
• Firewall VPN NAT, DNS, DHCP, FTP, intellectual QoS, Shaper, NTPD
• Possibility of installation up to 3000 VPN connections at the same time on one server
• Possibility of hierarchical distribution of the channel by rates in the HTB rate & ceil format
• Diagrams of load of MRTG

Scheme of use billing of the Carbon Standalone Billing 4 system

The network of provider is separated into IP segments or VLAN, each of which is serviced Ideco AS 3000 or other NAS server or switch. Internet traffic is distributed by means of the router installed on border with the Internet. NAS servers or switches are connected to this router. Authorizations and traffic observation of users in billing are performed by means of the Radius and Netflow technologies started on the Carbon Standalone Billing 4 server. The billing system of Carbon Standalone Billing 4 has an opportunity how to accept and send the NAS commands to servers and switches on SNMP/Telnet/SSH/CoA. Thus, authorization and accounting of traffic is assigned to Carbon Standalone Billing 4. With such scheme of creation of network about 50000-100000 registered users are possible; Width of the channel is limited only to network transmission capacity and opportunities of the router;

Scheme of use of billing Carbon Standalone Billing 4 SoftRouter as the gateway

Carbon Standalone Billing 4 works as the gateway, is established on border between the Internet and a local network. All Internet traffic passes through billing of ASR Ideco that provides calculation, blocking and limitation of speed.

Opportunities which are opened by billing at such scheme of connection:

• 7000 users with authorization on IP and capacity of the channel up to 400 Mbit / c;
• 3000 users with authorization on VPN/PPPoE at the same time and capacity of the channel up to 300 Mbit / c;
• In total VPN users about 7-15 thousand with accounting of coefficient of simultaneity can be registered.