[Asterisk-biz] Investment opportunity

[Darren Wiebe]

Operations Jabeens wrote:

> We are looking for setting up a small scale calling card operations in 
> USA. and also need a softswitch billing system for post paid clients.
>  
> After looking into the commercial product available in the VOIP 
> market, we decided to adopt an Asterisk based system which could 
> following at a minimum. Following are question to the list:
>  
> 1. Can Asterisk based system support both H323 and SIP protocol?  I 
> ask this as several of our terminating gateways are based on H323.

Yes, it can do both.  It does not come with H323 support but I've added 
it numerous times without issues.

>  
> 2. Is there any commercial or open source software which can have both 
> soft switch, prepaid and post paid calling systems?

As another user mentioned, asterisk is the softswitch.  You could easily 
use ASTCC for the calling cards.  Now here I put my own plug in.  We 
have a software package called ASTPP (www.aleph-com.net/astpp) that is 
open source and is designed to do either prepaid or postpaid billing.  
It is presently designed to work with AgileBill for invoice creation and 
presentation but that is easy to modify if you have some other software 
you would like to use.

>  
> 3. Is there any Codec convertor available for Asterisk based system to 
> convert say G723 to Gg729 or vice versa

You will (probably) need to purchase the G729 licenses from Digium.  Re 
G723, I think there is a G723 implementation in Digiums CVS but I don't 
know what the status is on it.  

>  
> Please let me know?
>  
> Also, if you are an expert solution provider (with certification) or a 
> consulting firm, has references of successful deployment of similar 
> low budget project, please contact me at ifte at bigfoot.com 
> <mailto:ifte at bigfoot.com>  Please consider this as a serious business 
> enquiry.
>  
>  
> Thanks,
> Ifte
>  

Darren Wiebe
darren at aleph-com.net

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