[asterisk-biz] Experimental/new VoIP rate search engine.

[Alex Balashov]

Kristian Kielhofner wrote:
> On 1/4/09, Alex Balashov <abalashov at evaristesys.com> wrote:
>> Kristian Kielhofner wrote:
>>
>>  > - Billing paranoia (I have to be in the media stream)
>>
>>
>> I may just be an idiot, but I still think this is stupid and haven't
>>  changed my position after a year or two of polemicising about it.
>>
>>  The statistical loss expectancy of business impact from call length
>>  computation errors resulting from never getting SIP BYEs and whatnot
>>  seems far lower than the cost of dealing with media.
>>
> 
>   Once again I agree completely, hence the use of the term "paranoia"
> (which usually carries negative connotation).
> 
>   Not to mention there are solutions for this in the larger SIP world
> (SIP Session Timers, for example).  Asterisk does support these in 1.6
> thanks to the initiative from John Todd.

I figured you would.

I just get beat up for this viewpoint all the time from the Paranoidal 
Ones, and continue to struggle understand their reasoning.  Many of them 
have claimed they lose a ton of money from accounting problems caused by 
the unreliability of signaling (as though SIP doesn't have reliable 
retransmission of transactional messages or something) but they've never 
shown me any numbers to substantiate that.


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