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

[Alex Balashov]

Nitzan Kon wrote:

> --- On Mon, 1/5/09, Ken Rice <krice at rmktek.com> wrote:
> 
>> This is specifically what session timers is supposed to
>> avoid
> 
> Which they obviously haven't implemented. :)

There's not really much to session timers except periodic re-INVITEs 
that re-assert an existing SDP offer/answer.  Do they not support those 
either?

> 
>> They start giving a crap when you start disputing bills and
>> backing it up
>> with logs showing that the call was hungup at a certain
>> time from your...
>> This is nothing new when it comes to dealing with carrier
>> interconnects it
>> even happens between the CLECs and RBOCs on cabs billings
> 
> The way their CDR is built, it will take me hours or even
> days to fully gather all the wrongly-billed calls. Until
> now I just put up with it because it wasn't too much $ in
> the grand scheme of things, but as our volume grows so does 
> the annoyance. :)

Well, that cuts to the heart of the argument that Kristian and I are 
making, even though it may not be applicable to such an egregious 
scenario.  1) Either the problem isn't big enough to worry about in 
terms of $, and 2) Whatever the size of the problem (assuming it's 
reasonably small), its cost is lower than the resources and bandwidth 
and other indirect costs required to handle media.

At your scale, those things may just not be a big deal.  I'm not about 
to ask you for your total volume or revenue on a public list.  But when 
you grow and find you suddenly need to pay for all this crap just to 
handle a massive influx of media for no real reason except to minimise 
billing errata...

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