PCC Rules from Image Added is a Policy and Charging Control solution for 3GPP and non-3GPP environments.

The uptake of mobile data services is not compensating for voice revenue in the developed markets, which makes it increasingly important to make data services more profitable for the service providers. Effective policy control is the key for service providers that are looking to manage the explosive growth in data traffic in a profitable way. Ensuring reasonable usage and allocating bandwidth based on a combination of subscriber and service criteria is essential when constantly updated offerings reflecting new services and technologies are required.

PCC Rules is an extension of the Platform and the Platform and delivers the capability to manage and retrieve policy rules based on 3GPP and non-3GPP definitions. The PCC Rules package will act as a rule repository, with which external systems can interact over different protocols, where the business logic will drive the selection of policy rules to be enforced by the appropriate network elements. The business logic is implemented as a workflow in using workflow using the APL functions that are described in this document.

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PCC Rules enable you to configure your Policy Control and Charging solution, either in a Desktop , or by applying the APL functions in a batch workflow and/or using the REST HTTP Interface.

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• Defining and updating rules - Includes creating, updating, and removing rules, which is done either in the Desktop, by using APL functions, or through the REST web interface.

• Managing updates of rules in runtime - Includes ensuring that when rules are updated in runtime, the latest rules will always be returned on rules lookup, which is done in a workflow using the APL functions described in this document.

• Looking up rules in runtime - Includes looking up rules based on requests from the network in runtime, which is done in a workflow using the APL functions described in this document.

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The reader of this document should be familiar with:

• The HTTP protocol, https://httpwg.org/specs/

Terms and Acronyms

This section contains glossaries for all terms and acronyms used throughout the PCC and documentationand Image Added documentation.