The University of Western Ontario Debating Society is the oldest student association at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada. It was originally part of the student union at the university, and was separated in 1915 and named "The New Areopagus of Western University", after the supreme tribunal of Athens. It was given its present name in the 1950s. Today, the Society competes internationally and is one of the founding members of CUSID, the Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate.
The Society is located in University College at the University of Western Ontario. Although sponsored by the university, its activities, including all hosted tournaments, national and international debates, are entirely student-run. Its executive committee is elected annually by the membership, and consists of a President, six Vice Presidents, and a Tournament Director. It was for many years the annual home of the Central Canadian Novice Debating Championship and is the originator of the North American Open Championship.
Bluechat is a direct text chat between two or more users, where every one utilizes a bluetooth device (i.e. a modern mobile phone or a PDA) and names it (it will be the user's nickname). The device is generally used in a public and populated space (like a pub, a street, plaza and so on).
To initiate chat one goes to the connectivity menu on one's device and turns on the bluetooth port. Next, one should discover new bluetooth devices (to add one's bluetooth co-chatters). To send the messages, one goes to the organizer program, creates a new note and sends it via Bluetooth to the other device/user.
In any case, the device can be visibly hidden and vibrating alert feature used.
It is common for users to put presentation items (age or age range, [...], [...] orientation, language, and so on) in their nick names or, if too long, in a general profile note. Users can also send contact items, for example email addresses.
In some premises, the admin can create a bluechat-LAN (i.e. in a hotel, hospital and so on), for a wider bluechat network.
Palm OS based devices have a Bluechat application. For Pocket PC OS and Windows Mobile some freeware is available. Java enabled mobiles can also be use and it is possible to chat using Easy Jack.
Bluetooth devices can talk to any other Bluetooth device with a range of a few meters. This means that complete strangers can communicate with others using Bluetooth devices. The term "Bluejacking" has been coined to refer to people who send irrelevant, surprising, or shocking messages to strangers in their vicinity.
Devices with a Wi-Fi port also includes Wifichat.
A billing mediation platform is a system used to convert datatypes of a certain type to other datatypes, usually for billing purposes. They are used mostly by telephone companies, who typically need to process UDRs (Usage Detail Records). In call scenarios it is known as CDR (Call Detail Record), and among broadband carriers it's referred to as IPDR.
Billing mediation platforms get their name from their behavior; they "mediate" between a variety of other systems. In the typical telephone company scenario, the upstream systems (those providing data to the mediation platform) are network elements, such as 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, collates and prepares data for consumption by the downstream systems, which often accept data only in a limited set of formats.
Typically a mediation platform is used for the following tasks:
- Collection and validation of CDRs
- Collating
- Correlation of different input sources CDRs
- Aggregation of partial CDRs related to the same call
- Format change and CDRs normalization
- Business transformation of data
In a telecom billing scenario, mediation is the first step after receiving a CDR. Generally speaking, the mediated CDR is forwarded to a rating engine, which calculates the charge associated with the CDRs.In today's world Rating Engines are more becoming necessary for the telecom billing system to meet the growing variant customer needs for different services.
Despite the name, not all of the data transferred via billing mediation platforms is actually 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, as part of a network monitoring procedure, or for any other business intelligence applications.
Sophisticated Billing Mediation software from various providers servers end to end functionality for Telecom Operators. Mediation Software Performs various operation from Collection to Downstream Distribution to Modules like Retail Billing, Interconnect Settlement, Business intelligence, Fraud Detection, Revenue Assurance, Test Call Generators. Following list of activities provides an insight on Mediation software activities
- Collection and Archive
- Decoding/Encoding
- CDR Normalization (Common Format)
- Filtering
- Conversion
- Validation
- Record Enrichment (Using Complex Reference Data)
- Duplicate Record Detection
- Aggregation or Correlation
- Buffering
- Cloning
- Sorting
- Downstream Format Mapping
- Header and Trailer generation
- Downstream Distribution
- Error Messaging and Alarms
- Auditing and Reports
- Reconciliation
- Reference Data Configuration
- Provisioning services for the subscription.
Complementary to Billing Mediation functions, comprehensive mediation platforms also provide functionality dedicated to Service Provisioning (the two areas frequently intermix as services configured and used by the end customer result in usage data records generation in the network).
Mediating between the systems is not only the only job can Mediation does, Actually this can be used as a provisioning agent. The basic provisioning commands can be configured within the mediation system and whenever we get a request for the system which does the provisioning, the request can be converted into a file , in which mediation can append the service provisioning commands and send it to HLR for activating any request. This of course , load dependent but can come very handy when there is a crisis in the other system.
At core Mediation involves data transfer between various systems with or without modification of data starting Network elements to OSS/BSS systems.Mediation platform for Telecom Practice supports various systems
- Retail Billing
- Wholesale Billing - National and International
- Network Traffic Management
- Dataware Housing
- Reconciliation system
- Fraud Management
- Provisioning Feed to Sub-systems
Telecom operators offer Voice,video,data,fax and internet services to subscribers and partners on various product lines.Mediation products are tuned to provide solutions for complex business challenges.
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