Overview
Overview
The OpenCloud Rhino product suite comprises:
- Rhino Application Server™
- Rhino Service Interaction Server™
- Rhino Charging Sentinel™
Rhino Application Server™
OpenCloud Rhino Application Server™ is the world-leading carrier-grade, event-driven application server (EDAS) for Java-based telecommunications services. Rhino Telecoms Application Server (TAS) complies with the Java standard – JAIN SLEE (JSLEE) – for network and protocol-independent application servers to provide an asynchronous container for communication applications. Rhino AS is the foundation product in the OpenCloud Rhino suite.
Rhino Service Interaction Server™
Rhino Service Interaction Server™ provides service composition and interaction capabilities for SS7 and IP networks. It provides a graphical user interface (GUI) to allow new telecoms services to be created by combining them together and inserting additional logic.
Rhino Charging Sentinel™
Rhino Charging Sentinel™ provides telecoms call and session control on the carrier-grade Rhino platform. It provides “in call” session control in cooperation with an Online Charging System (OCS). This involves authorising the session set-up, metering the session and if necessary, playing announcements and terminating the session when the credit expires.
Charging Sentinel™ allows a single real-time rating and billing system to be used as the OCS, regardless of whether the subscribers are charged in a pre or post-paid manner.
The OpenCloud Rhino Platform is the foundation-stone of the entire OpenCloud Rhino product suite.
JSLEE summary
The JSLEE standard was originally conceived to meet the specific and exacting needs of an application server operating in the service layer of telecommunications networks. The network service layer has extreme transaction processing requirements in terms of latency, throughput, availability and management, commonly referred to as carrier-grade requirements.
JSLEE specifies an asynchronous run-time environment which allows telecommunications systems to be modelled as Finite State Machines (FSM) connecting to a number of external systems by asynchronous signalling protocols.