[asterisk-users] [OpenSIPS-Users] Dimensioning a telephony system based on openser!

[Alex Balashov]

By good enough I really did mean good enough, not sort-of kind-of okay.

Jai Rangi wrote:

> Really?  
> Yes, Specially when your service is metered, I don't know how some once 
> justify good enough billing. Dealing with 500 customer calling every day 
> for billing inquiries can turn out to be much more expensive then all 
> other expenses. 
> 
> " Next time I will consult with your authority on what works and
> does not work in production environments before implementing for
> large-scale billing solutions that are perfectly functional, and indeed,
> very much in production."
> 
> No Need to be so contemptuous.
> 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Alex Balashov 
> <abalashov at evaristesys.com <mailto:abalashov at evaristesys.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Jai Rangi wrote:
> 
>      > "SIP-only accounting is "good enough" most of the time."
> 
>      > Does not work in production environment.
> 
>     Really?   Next time I will consult with your authority on what works and
>     does not work in production environments before implementing for
>     large-scale billing solutions that are perfectly functional, and indeed,
>     very much in production.
> 
>     By the way, there are, of course mitigating strategies to minimise risk.
>      Dialog-stateful modules can end the dialog after a certain timeout,
>     you can send periodic re-invites with an SDP offer to probe the
>     endpoints, etc.
> 
>     It is far wiser than introducing a point of failure, a source of
>     latency, and a source of huge bandwidth and processing cost into the
>     call path when you don't need it.
> 
>     --
>     Alex Balashov
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