Event Reporting and
“automatic” on the required trunk group administration forms. See Chapter 14, ‘‘DEFINITY ECS Administration Forms’’ Section of this document.
Lengthy Calls
Whenever a call exceeds ten hours, a charging event for the accumulated charges is sent for the first ten hours of the call. The charge type will be reported as ‘‘split charge’’. The accumulated charge amounts in subsequent charge events will be adjusted downward by the amount reported as the split charge event. Very lengthy calls will receive a split charging event at every
Further, the network does not reset its charges at the
The split charges reported due to lengthy calls are not part of CDR Call Splitting. These charges will be reported whether or not CDR outgoing call splitting is enabled. In addition, these charges will include a Party Identifier IE, unlike those generated as part of CDR Call Splitting.
Off-Premises Station
An
PPM
If Periodic Pulse Metering (PPM) is used in lieu of ISDN, then charges are not reported to ASAI.
Private Network QSIG ISDN Protocol
There is no current support for the tandeming of charge information from a public to a private network. In addition, DEFINITY ECS will not function as a network switch, and thus will not generate charging information messages for an originating switch on a private network.