[Asterisk-Users] Prepaid systems considerations

[Ricardo Poppi]

Hi all.

I´ve been around looking on the wiki and past discussions of this list 
to find out witch is the best prepaid solution to put to work into my 
environment.

I have a Pentium 4 machine with 1 TDM400P with 2fxo, fedora core 2 and a 
very nice running asterisk. I need a prepaid solution to put my SIP/IP 
users to use the pstn line with certain limits, and It is mandatory that 
they could be "automaticaly" authenticated - I mean, without the need to 
dial long-boring PINs.


AreskiCC

The main problem into areskiCC - for me of course - is that it uses 
postgre. I dont want to install it into my system, since I do have mysql 
installed and running. I´m not sure if areski can do the autentication 
based on the from field (my_user at my_domain.sip) of the SIP messages.

Do you know if it can do that?



AstCC x CallingCard Apps

I´m with serious doubts about if it´s more interesting to use astcc or 
callingcard applications  -   
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-CallingCard+Applications  -  to get what I 
want. Callingcard seems to be lighter and right-to-the-point, in 
comparison with astCC.

First of all, I don´t know if the calling card "Authenticate against 
CallerID" feature is the one I need to authenticate against the from 
field of the INVITE SIP message that will ask asterisk for a PSTN way 
out. Do anybody knows or used that?


If somebody could give me some clues about prepaid environments and it´s 
experiences I would be very gratefull.



Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Ricardo Poppi