[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk + SER

[Yair Hakak]

it depends what you mean by billing and accounting. postpaid? prepaid?
integrated into the dialplan or just for use later?

you can use cdr_mysql or similar to dump everything into a DB and
build billing apps on that, if you want as well.

please read the stuff here:
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+billing

most of the billing functions are very well documented.

-yair

p.s. the reason i said i would do the opposite of your suggestion is
that SER is a better SIP proxy server than asterisk (it scales better,
among other things). The downside is that the routing logic is more
"programmatic" - i.e. extensions.conf is much simpler than ser.cfg,
and there's also no handy "nat=yes" flag - you need rtp_proxy and
nathelper, to get past NATs. I use asterisk as my PSTN gateway as well
as handling all the dialing logic in asterisk, and SIP just takes care
of registering endpoints.

hope this helps.



On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 10:13:20 -0800, Nitesh Divecha
<nitesh at vipernetworks.com> wrote:
> Hey Thanks guys...
> 
> But how can I use Asterisk for billing and accounting?
> Do you mean use the astcc module..?
> 
> Please help...
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Neel
> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Charles Wang
> Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 11:50 PM
> To: yair at hakak.com; Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk + SER
> 
> Yes, I use this method too.
> 
> On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 18:18:15 +0200, Yair Hakak <yhakak at gmail.com> wrote:
> > you do not need radius for ser and asterisk to speak to each other. if
> > anything, i would suggest using SER for the endpoint and asterisk for
> > the billing and accounting.
> >
> > -yair
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 23:32:42 -0500, Chris Ford <chris at wrzf.com> wrote:
> > > I just installed SER last night but if you want it ot talk to Asterisk I
> > > found that you should install FREERADIUS Server and RADIUS CLIENT. For
> it to
> > > function properly
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Nitesh Divecha" <nitesh at vipernetworks.com>
> > > To: "'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'"
> > > <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> > > Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 8:29 PM
> > > Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk + SER
> > >
> > > > Hello All,
> > > >
> > > > Has anyone tried Asterisk with SER.?
> > > > My main focus is billing and authentication of my endpoints.
> > > >
> > > > I want Asterisk to handle all my endpoints and SER to do
> > > > billing/accounting
> > > > stuff.
> > > >
> > > > Any help will be highly appreciated.
> > > >
> > > > Neel
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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