[asterisk-users] CDR Design

[Apostolos Pantsiopoulos]

Anthony Francis wrote:
> Atis Lezdins wrote:
>   
>> When i started to
>> write this implementation, luckily i didn't had much expertise in
>> telephony, so i did it from programmers point of view. There's even
>> funny story about this in our company - we had some "Project managers"
>> and "Development managers" hired later who had lots of experience in
>> telephony, and at some point when discussing some minor problems with
>> my implementation, they told me that this is not the way how to do it.
>> Telco's do all processing at end of month, so this system won't last
>> for long. Currenty everybody in our company probably would be very
>> disappointed if they wouldn't be able to see fresh data in reports
>> immediately.
>>
>>   
>> Regards,
>> Atis
>>
>>   
>>     
> Just because that is the way Telco's do it doesn't mean that it is the 
> way it SHOULD be done, there is always room for improvement and fresh 
> ideas. I also believe near realtime CDR is not only possible but should 
> be used, the only thing I do once a month is long distance consolidation 
> for billing, I use multiple LD carriers and all of their monthly records 
> need to be normalized and consolidated with our records.
>
>   
I don't think that all Telco's are using the same procedure for billing.
Sometimes they use both. There are Telco's that provide pre-paid
services (calling cards, pre-paid mobile services etc) and their calls
have to be billed in real-time mode. The same Telco can use a CDR
aggregation model to bill their post-paid customers.



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Apostolos Pantsiopoulos
Kinetix Tele.com R & D
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