[asterisk-biz] VoIP Switches - Suggestions?

[David Knell]

Hi John,

Congratulations on building your business to a point where these things
start to matter.

It sounds to me that the problems that you have are more with billing
than with the switch itself.  We've successfully used FreeSWITCH with
homebrew billing [it's not as hard to do as people make out] to handle
in the teens of millions of minutes per month with real-time call
rating, etc., and I'd recommend you to take a look at it.  

Cheers --

Dave


> Hey,
> 
> We are currently terminating around 3 million minutes/month through
> our current Asterisk setup.
> 
> It has served us fine, but obviously this isn't idea for growing (and
> the channels per server ratio isn't great either).
> 
> What are your opinions both positive and negative towards VoIP
> Switches that you have used or currently use?
> 
> We are currently using OpenSER but once we switched to a prepaid model
> it all went downhill
> (the prepaid setup we had used a PHP script to do call rating on the
> fly, resulting in a very
> low call amount)
> 
> Our needs are to be able to load in a provider rate deck, a customer
> rate deck, and give them credit.
> It does not have to be 100% "prepay" even if credit was calculated
> daily/hourly/ or something would work.
> 
> We would like to find the most "cost effective" method obviously, but
> I fear it may be just having to cope
> with OpenSER and/or write the ability into the SIP router itself.
> 
> Look forward to hearing what you guys have to say!
> 
> -- 
> --
> John Roscow
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