[Asterisk-biz] Call termination database

[Sergey Kuznetsov]

I am using long prefix match in my system and rates tables.



alex at pilosoft.com wrote:

>On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
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>>I wasn't considering NANPA as much as I was the rest of the world :-) In
>>NANPA, 99% of the routes are the same cost for nearly everyone (unless
>>you are an OC yourself). Alaska, Hawaii and the Caribbean being the
>>notable exceptions, of course.
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>Oh, sorry about that. I do much more domestic than LD, that's why I'm 
>more concerned with it. I think when you get to certain volume, you 
>realize that paying per-OCN-tier is more beneficial, because when seller 
>sells you a blend, they are taking a risk that your ratio will be out of 
>wack...
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>>Certainly I could see some value in publishing +1 rates down to NPA-NXX
>>level for certain parts of the country (as you say, NECA routes are a
>>biggie). I don't think we need to try to duplicate much LERG
>>information, though. If I publish a route for +1602, that covers all of
>>+1602 unless there are exceptions listed at a more detailed level (if
>>there were NECA or cellular at-cost routes here, but there aren't). When
>>the routing database is used, if you always do a longest-match-wins,
>>then we don't need to list every single NPA-NXX combination, only the
>>exceptions.
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>You'd be surprised how many exceptions are there...
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>>Same goes for international routes too: +44 is primarily a single rate,
>>except for cellular routes and premium numbers, which can be identified
>>using a prefix string. 
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>I think unfortunately, everyone has their own rate table, and trying to 
>unify them won't really help. 
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>On other hand, you can certainly do some cherrypicking based on a database 
>you are putting together...
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>-alex
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