| With high-speed development of the communication undertaking and the deepening reform of telecommunication regulation, the market competition is becoming fiercer. The billing system plays a more and more important role in the communication undertaking. Business support system has become the focus for the competitive of Telecom operators enterprises, telecom operators increase the investment for support system year by year. Billing system as the main function of the Business Support System has the key effect of operator's various products and services, so the online data collection system that provided the raw data for the billing system also play an important role. For open up telecommunication market, develop multiple operations, and establish in an unassailable position of the market completion to the telecommunication company. It is important to set up a safe, reliable and powerful switch's real-time online data collection and billing system.This paper firstly introduces the concept and the principle of the online data collection. Then discuss the importance of the online data collection and billing system. Discuss the different agreements used in switches, research the advantages and disadvantages of the distributed collection network and the centralized collection network. In physical structure and software structure, describe the overall program of the data collection system and give the key issue of the system. the collection system implementation of the various raw data source(mainly binary files) acquisition. Since the original wide range of data sources, need different program for different switches. On the basis of describing the online data collection system and the relevant agreement implement the collection program with MTP(Message Transfer Protocol),FTP(File Transfer Protocol )and FTAM (File Transfer Access and Management) for anhui Unicom. Finally, introduce how to make an affective test use case and given the specific test use case of the system. |