Billing Mediation Platform is a system used to convert datatypes to one another, usually for billing purposes.

It is used mostly in telcos (telephone companies), who typically need to process CDRs (Call Detail Records) and broadband carriers (who may want to process IPDRs). A telephone company (or telco) provides telecommunications services such as telephony and data communications. ...

They are so called because they 'mediate' between a variety of other systems. In the typical telco scenario, the upstream systems (those providing data to the mediation platform) are telephone switches and the downstream systems (those receiving data from the mediation platform) perform accounting, auditing, archiving, or bill-generation functions. The mediation system collects, coallates and prepares data for consumption by the downstream systems (which often accept data only in a limited set of formats). A Verizon Central Office in Lakeland, Florida at night. ...

Typically a mediation platform is used for 1) Collection and Validation of CDR's 2) Collating 3) Format change 4) Business transformation of data

In a telecom billing scenario mediation is the first step after recieving a UDR (Usage Detail Record, sometimes known as CDR in call scenario). In general cases the mediated CDR is forwarded to rating engine, which calculates the charge associated with the CDR's. Despite the name, not all of the data transferred is used for billing purposes. For instance, the mediation software might generate traffic volume statistics based on the number and origin of the records passing through it. Those statistics could then be used for capacity planning or as part of a network monitoring procedure or for any other business intelligence applications.

A few manufacturers include Flextronics Software Systems,HP OpenView Internet Usage Manager (IUM), Comptel, [Openet Telecom], UshaComm, Verizon IT, AMDOCS, Intec Telecom Systems, ACECOM Telesciencesand SunTec Business Solutions. Comptel is a telecommunications software company headquartered in Helsinki, Finland. ... Amdocs NYSE: DOX, headquarters in St. ...