Routing Control

As 5G, IoT, and multi-partner ecosystems expand, telecom operators face increasing challenges in tracking, enforcing, and billing routing decisions and policies. Routing events, generated in real-time by network functions like Diameter Routing Agents and Policy Control Functions, must be collected, normalized, enriched, and forwarded to key operational systems such as billing, service assurance, and policy enforcement.

Without effective data mediation, CSPs risk inaccurate billing, inefficient routing policies, degraded service assurance, and compliance failures. As networks scale, the complexity of managing and correlating real-time routing events across multiple systems requires a high-performance mediation solution.

DigitalRoute’s Routing Control enables CSPs to seamlessly collect, process, and distribute routing event data, ensuring accurate decision-making for billing, performance monitoring, and policy enforcement across both telco and partner ecosystems.

Addressing the Challenges of Routing Control

CSPs must handle large-scale, real-time routing event processing while maintaining network performance, accurate billing, and service quality compliance.

Key challenges include: 

• High-volume, real-time routing event processing – The 5G core network generates vast amounts of real-time data on usage, Quality of Service (QoS), and policy enforcement. 
• Complex data normalization and correlation – Routing events originate from multiple network functions and must be aggregated, enriched, and correlated before integration into billing, service assurance, and policy enforcement systems. 
• Accurate billing and monetization – Telcos and their partner ecosystems rely on mediated routing data to charge based on routing, traffic flow, and service usage patterns. 
• Seamless integration across legacy and next-generation networks – Routing control remains essential in 4G, 5G, voice, SMS, and roaming services, requiring a mediation solution that bridges both traditional and modern networks. 

Without a robust data mediation layer, CSPs risk inconsistent routing enforcement, revenue leakage, and performance degradation. 

DigitalRoute enables CSPs to process routing control data efficiently, ensuring billing accuracy, service quality monitoring, and network optimization.

How DigitalRoute’s Routing Control Data Mediation Works 

• Collects real-time routing control events from network functions (Diameter Routing Agents, Policy Control Functions, etc.) for accurate policy enforcement and billing. 
• Normalizes, enriches, and correlates routing data, ensuring clean, structured, and usable data for downstream systems. 
• Delivers processed routing data to billing, service assurance, and policy enforcement systems, ensuring accurate charge calculations, compliance tracking, and service performance insights. 
• Optimizes network performance by providing real-time routing insights, enabling CSPs to detect congestion points and enforce routing policies dynamically. 
• Supports multi-partner ecosystems, ensuring seamless routing data integration across telco and third-party service providers. 
• Enables usage-based billing for advanced 5G services, such as network slicing, by accurately tracking routing data and service consumption. 
• Bridges legacy and next-generation networks, ensuring consistent data mediation across 4G, 5G, and hybrid environments.

With DigitalRoute’s high-performance mediation capabilities, CSPs can automate routing data processing, improve decision-making, and ensure accurate billing and compliance enforcement.

Who Benefits from DigitalRoute’s Routing Control? 

• Network Operations Teams – Gain real-time insights into routing decisions, ensuring optimal network performance and early identification of routing bottlenecks. 
• Billing Teams (Telco & Partner Ecosystem) – Rely on mediated routing data to accurately charge for services based on traffic flow and service usage patterns. 
• Service Assurance Teams – Monitor service quality, enforce SLAs, and ensure policy adherence in real time. 

By automating the mediation of routing control data, telecom operators enhance operational efficiency, improve revenue assurance, and optimize service performance across their networks.

Driving 5G & Next-Gen Service Innovation with Routing Control 

With the evolution of 5G, IoT, and cloud-native services, real-time mediation of routing control data is crucial to enabling: 

• Billing and entitlement processing in real-time – Ensuring accurate charge calculations for routing-based service monetization. 
• Optimized network performance – Dynamic routing insights help operators detect congestion and optimize traffic flows in real time. 
• Quality of Service (QoS) enforcement – Routing Control ensures high-quality service delivery and compliance with SLAs. 
• Seamless multi-network operation – Supporting legacy and next-gen environments, ensuring consistent routing data processing across 4G, 5G, and beyond. 
• Advanced 5G capabilities like network slicing – Ensuring accurate routing data processing for managing service quality across slices. 

By leveraging DigitalRoute’s Routing Control, CSPs gain real-time operational intelligence, improved network efficiency, and ensure accurate, policy-driven billing based on routing data.