Stratos Dashboard™
Stratos Dashboard offers a full range of cost and traffic control capabilities to manage your BGAN, R-BGAN, FleetBroadband, SwiftBroadband, Inmarsat Satellite Phone Services and Iridium® services, through a convenient, web-based portal.
Stratos Dashboard allows you to activate, deactivate, suspend, un-suspend and make any changes to your SIM cards. These features range from changing your voicemail settings to managing your firewall settings. You will get a (near real-time) overview of all your terminal usage, rated against your Stratos invoice price. This does not only include finalized calls, but also calls that are currently in progress. At the beginning of the each month you can download your invoice from Stratos Dashboard in different formats as soon as the invoice has been generated. The invoice will be available in PDF, D91 and CSV formats. All your up-to-date contract information is available online as well. For monitoring and cost control purposes it is possible to create groups of end-users. You can assign a credit allowance in dollars, either to SIM cards or groups of SIM cards. In addition it is possible to allow your end-users to view their (un)priced usage information.
Benefits of Stratos Dashboard
- Have are in complete control of all your provisioning and monitoring
- Limit your credit risk with the credit control functionalities
- Perform all online actions in real time
- Access all traffic in as near to real time as possible
- Allow your end-users to view their (priced or unpriced) usage information
- Easily exporting of calls to Excel or TXT format for further processing or distribution
Access to Stratos Dashboard
All Stratos customers who use BGAN, R-BGAN, FleetBroadband, SwiftBroadband, Inmarsat Satellite Phone Services and Iridium can get access to Stratos Dashboard, as long as they have Internet access. To access Stratos Dashboard, please contact Stratos for a username and password.
Variable Access Levels
Access to Stratos Dashboard is available on the following levels:
- Customer: all accounts and all simcards for one Stratos customer
- Service group: all SIM cards under one service group. This service group is created by the Stratos customer and can be, for example, one of his own departments
- Service group light all SIM cards under one service group. This service group is created by the customer but has limited functionality.
- End user: one SIM card only
Online Provisioning
With Stratos Dashboard users can complete all provisioning for your SIM cards yourself, from one user interface:
- Activation
- Deactivation
- Suspending
- Un-suspending
- Changing service details (i.e. voicemail)
- Adding or removing IP addresses
- Online activations can be future dated for forward-planning
Detailed Information on Your Company and Your SIM Cards
On Stratos Dashboard you can view:
- Your installed base, including the history of all performed actions
- Contact data
- Company address and invoice address
- Contracts
- Setting up email addresses for D91 and CSV delivery
Monitoring of Traffic and Usage
For monitoring traffic and usage, Stratos Dashboard contains a credit control tool:
- Create credit control groups
- Assign credit (in $) to simcards
- Assign credit to credit control groups
- Have traffic counted down automatically when calls are made
- Set alert thresholds (in $)
- If required, have the SIM card or group suspend automatically when credit has been used. This function easily facilitates prepaid options
- Send out alert messages to SIM cards or groups that reach the alert threshold or reach 0
Traffic Types
Stratos Dashboard contains all traffic types:
- Background IP
- Voice
- SMS
- ISDN
- Streaming 32, 64, 128 and 256 kbit/s
Call Types
Two types of calls are available:
- Calls in progress: these calls are not final, as they are still in progress and not completed yet.
- Final calls: these calls will appear on the invoice
For both types of calls there are two options: with pricing (this is the price as on your invoice) and without pricing (usage information only). Calls with pricing are available on customer and service group level, other users can only see usage.
Frequency of Call Data
- For voice calls a “call in progress” CDR is received every hour, for data per MB
- Final calls: these calls will be processed and made available after receipt from Inmarsat , which is between 15-60 minutes after the calls is made
Call Details
Stratos Dashboard contains at least the following fields for every call:
- Time and date
- ICC-ID, IMSI and MSISDN of the SIM card making the call
- Called number
- Duration
- Traffic type
- Origin and destination of the call
User Requirements
- The highest level user (customer) must have a signed Stratos contract
- Access for the lower level users (service groups and end-users) must be approved by the higher level (customer).
- An Internet connection with a browser equivalent to IE 6.0 or higher is required
