Ideco of ASR

Automated billing system of ASR Ideco - the modern certified billing system optimum suitable for small and average Internet service providers and also for office centers, hotels, higher education institutions and many others.

ASR Ideco 3

ASR Ideco 3 is the certified billing system popular with Internet service providers, mainly, due to ease of use. In January, 2012 at ASR Ideco 3 the structure of a billing system switches on the module of a subscription for the software. The module the subscription to antiviruses and another software" within which subscribers of provider can rent the license of the software on the basis of monthly microwrite-offs allows the Internet service providers using billing of ASR Ideco 3 to start within several minutes service ". The module is switched on in a service pack of ASR Ideco 3 to version 353 above, and the providers using billing have an opportunity to start service "A subscription to software" right after updating installation.

The service "A subscription to software" functions within the subscriber portal of provider. The web show-window with software products is created by specialists RentSoft and will be stylized under appearance of the portal. The subscriber manages the subscriptions through a personal account, paying lease of software from the uniform subscriber account (in addition to payment for the Internet).

All necessary functionality for Internet service provider

• Flexible rates, opportunity to set cost depending on subnets, the volume and time of day, pre-paid traffic
• Unlimited rates an opportunity to set speed depending on volume, time of day and subnets, a daily and monthly subscription fee
• Tariffing and shutdown in real time, mailing of warnings
• Support of NetFlow and RADIUS
• Support of SNMP, CoA, SSH, Telnet for management of network equipment
• The full-fledged website of provider on CMS of 1C-Bitrix
• Personal account of the user - statistics, change of a rate and the password, the history of transactions, notifications, etc.
• Maintaining personal accounts, agreements, financial transactions, automatic formation and printing of documents, setup of templates
• 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
• Support of payment systems: OSMP, City, RoboKassa, ComePay, QuickPay, RPS, SFOUR and others
• Web interface of the cashier
• User-friendly ACP Manager graphical interface
• Ability to integrate with external systems and 1C under different protocols
• Distribution of powers to additional administrators and operators
• Support of SORM
• Possibility of accounting and write-off of additional periodic services
• Storage of detailed statistics of visits in a compact format, viewing through a personal account, TOP 100
• Support of routers and NAS servers: Ideco AS 3000, CISCO, SUN, MikroTik, D-Link, NSG, * Revolution, Nomadix, PC router, Huawei, hotspot

Version of ACP Ideco 3 SoftRouter

In addition includes following features:

• 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

Opportunities for hotels, higher education institutions and office centers

• 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

Advantages of ASR Ideco 3

• The simplest installation and management from all systems presented at the market. ASR Ideco 3 is completely ready-made solution, is established from one compact disk on the "empty" computer and at once is ready to work.
• Is ideal for initial and average providers of level of the city or area
• Basic delivery switches on all functional modules, necessary for work
• 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 the additional software and OS is not required.
• In the version of SoftRouter it 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 constructed based on Linux kernel, has the unprecedented reliability comparable with hardware solutions.
• The built-in module of fault tolerance will recover 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 70 days.

Scheme of use of ASR Ideco 3

The network of provider is separated into IP segments or VLAN, each of which is serviced by Ideco AS 3000 or other NAS server or the 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 are performed by means of the Radius and Netflow technologies started on the ASR Ideco server. Ideco of ASR 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 ASR Ideco. 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 ASR Ideco 3 SoftRouter as the gateway

ACP Ideco 3 works as the gateway, is established on border between the Internet and a local network. All Internet traffic passes through ASR Ideco that provides calculation, blocking and limitation of speed.

Opportunities at such scheme of connection:

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

New opportunities of rates (December, 2011)

• The new technology "Fair Channel", allows to change dynamically a priority of a sheyper depending on activity of the subscriber. Also this technology will allow to load the channel effectively.
• New options of restriction of volume per hour and in day, together with restriction opportunities in a month and on time, will allow to create even more flexible rates.
• The conditional blocking rules will allow to create package rates.
• There was a possibility of incomplete blocking at negative balance, for example it is possible to select a band of 32 kb that will allow to increase loyalty of subscribers. New payment systems, will allow to unload your subscriber department considerably.
• Uniteller payment system: American Express, DinnersClub, JCB.
• Payment system of Robokassa: QIWI the Purse, Electronic money, PayPal, Yandex money, WebMoney, Euroset, Svyaznoy, from the account of the mobile phone, the Alpha Cliques Internet bank, cash in payment terminals, the bank card through Platezh.ru, via ATMs, through HandyBank, via iPhone, using the SMS, transfer in the CONTACT system.
• Qiwi Wallet payment system: Visa, MasterCard, Terminals of Qiwi, MTS, Megafon.

New services for subscribers

• You can expand a range of the rendered services, giving to subscribers an opportunity of a subscription to antiviruses and other software, via the rentsoft engine.

New control circuit equipment.

• The new scheme of event handling works several times quicker and has big queue that is important at mass connections of subscribers.

• New version of the access server Ideco AS 3500.

In the new version completely automatic adjustment of a sheaf with Ideco of ACP 3.5, a possibility of dynamic nat, readdressing on the page with exceeding of a limit, binding mac, routing on nat to the address, support of a demo mode for 15 days and other improvements is added.

• • The free version of Ideco AS 3500 on 100 simultaneous connections, it approximately to 300 users is available.
  • Use of free billing of Ideco of ACP 3.5 on 200 users and the free access server Ideco AS 3500 on 100 simultaneous connections, allows to begin business without additional costs.
  • Within 2 months you can purchase the access server Ideco AS 3500 with a promo-discount of 50%.

Billing of ASR Ideco 3 was integrated with the MaaS-platform RentSoft

The functionality of a popular billing system of ASR Ideco 3 used by several hundred Internet service providers was replenished with the module of a subscription for the software. - clients of Ideco - antiviruses, dictionaries, games and other software according to the scheme of monthly lease are available to subscribers of providers now, and payment is charged directly off a uniform subscriber account. The module functions based on the MaaS-platform RentSoft which is used by more than 100 telecom operators from Russia and the neighboring countries for additional monetization of a subscriber base (MaaS - "Marketplace as a Service", shop as service).

The platform RentSoft becomes more and more demanded among Internet service providers and, respectively, their subscribers. Providers connect the platform for achievement of the following purposes:

• increase in monetization of a subscriber base from sale and autoprolongation of subscriptions;
• obtaining competitive advantage due to rendering an additional service (VAS);
• increase in a subscriber base at the expense of the offer of new services, including - the marketing actions which are carried out by RentSoft company.

Turning on of the module RentSoft in the structure of ASR Ideco 3 was commented by the Area director of ASR of Aideko company Sergey Osintsev: "Permanent development is that condition which provides to ASR Ideco 3 the leading position in a segment of billings for average and medium-sized operators. Integration about RentSoft allowed us to provide to the clients even more universal billing capable to make a powerful contribution to business development of Internet service provider".

Ideco of ACP 3.7

• Application for connection via the website – a convenient method of connection of new subscribers and expansion of a subscriber base.
• There was an opportunity for a certain number of days to notify the user that he downloads means on the account and the subscriber will always manage to refill the balance before shutdown of the provided services.
• There was an opportunity to consider and regulate VoIP of service. Having connected VoIP the equipment, you will be able to provide new service a call to any place in the world.
• IPTV services are selected in a separate class, for involvement of subscribers you can install at yourself the equipment for IPTV of broadcasting and regulate providing ip-television through billing.
• Hands-off processing of debtors, opportunity to transfer long ago the disconnected users to separate group for the subsequent analysis managers.
• For NAS of users it is possible to set a dynamic pool of white IP and NAT IP with a binding to the equipment.
• Possibility of calculation of volume of traffic through RADIUS accounting without NetFlow.
• The feature to set the COA password for the equipment and the general password of users for authorization ip/mac is added.
• NAS users do not lose access to network at long switching off of billing and when updating any more.
• The feature to set an inclusion threshold is added. Now you can take all advantages of daily write-off and guarantees of monthly replenishment if set an inclusion threshold equal to a subscription fee.
• The feature to disconnect a subscription fee for the period of service action is added, it is especially relevant for package services.
• Work and processing speed of system services of "Turbo button", Forcing, "MB packet", Bonustny traffic is improved, statuses are separated "Is included" and "activated" that is displayed in a personal account and in the manager.
• Protection against input of incorrect combinations of parameters in services and a subscription fee.
• Restriction of operation of payment cards in minutes is added, allows to provide more flexibly access to an Internet cafe, hotels and health resorts.
• The new module of sending messages is added. Message delivery modes: e-mail, ideco-agent, sms, winpopup.
• There was an opportunity to send any messages through ASR the Manager - operators at any time will be able to convey by all available means the electronic notification important information to subscribers.
• Sending the invoice for payment by email in the automatic mode. An opportunity to edit the form. Legal entities will timely have an opportunity to pay for the provided services.
• Support of Xeon 5600 for HP G6 and similar.
• The example of a rate with the fair channel in pure installation is added.

Ideco of ACP 3.8

New opportunities for your subscribers Finance under control - the mandrel of messages to subscribers about successful account replenishment is added. Accurate payment - settings of payment systems are expanded, the field of the choice of the main identifier of the payer is added.

Control of switches and capacity the reference book of houses with an opportunity to attach houses to subscribers and the equipment Is added. The reference book of switches — the feature for a binding of the user to the switch in his house is added. The reference book of ports — an opportunity to select port from available in the house. The status of ports — the feature for display of a status of switch ports is added. It is convenient to add the house — during creation of the house of value of all fields undertake from previous. Automatic adjustment — the user's binding to the house if the switch is selected, but the house is not selected. An option at setup of the switch allowing to tie automatically all users of the switch to the house specified in it if the house at them is not specified. Easy updating - automatic creation of switches and a binding to users upon transition from versions 3.7 is also younger. Care of the operator - from now on the IP address fields, port and VLAN id are autocompleted from the reference book of the switch in which it is possible to filter busy ports, it will accelerate work and will protect from input of wrong information.

New in operation of the server Protection against a wrong situation – in the new version it is forbidden to create card users with IP authorization. Only useful services – now it is impossible to create services a packet of MB and bonus traffic with 0 volume. There will be everything — local filtering in all tables of the ASR-manager. New diagrams — the feature for display of diagrams of loading to the Ideco AS interfaces in the system monitor is added. Accounting of the equipment — within service can be specified now the rented equipment, having selected from the reference book. Updating of the manager — in the new version the interface of adding of services became more clear. Clear diagnostics — after processing diagnostics in the manager is more visually displayed. Support of specific settings — the profile of the Opt.82 settings for SNR-2940 is added to the menu.

Expansion of functionality of a system of accounting of services IP telephony Preset tuning - when installing the new version is autocompleted the reference book of the VOIP directions. Clear settings — in the manager the description is added how to fill a VOIP direction mask.

ACP of Ideco 3 passes to the new Carbon platform

The department of ASR of Aideko company since 2013 passes to a new software platform of "Carbon". The decision on a direction output on development of solutions for telecom operators in Carbon Soft separate company was made. It will allow to increase dynamics of development of products and to improve quality of work of technical support. Besides, at product development we will be able to consider specifics of business of telecom operators even more. Main objectives: increase in dynamics of development of products, product development taking into account specifics of business of telecom operators, improvement of quality of work of technical support. On the new platform several products are already released.

• Carbon Billing 5 beta is the version of billing with OSS/BSS opportunities.
• Carbon AS 4 is the access server of the increased performance.
• Carbon Reductor is the solution for blocking of the websites in compliance 149-FZ.