[asterisk-users] How to resell my trunk/provider to others?

[Carlos C.]

Thank you Tarek!

I now know is possible.. i was a little confuse about it.  Your  
response gave some guidance.. all i have to do now is get the details.  
I will be using A2Billing for this.

Regards,

Carlos C

On Nov 5, 2009, at 6:48 AM, Tarek Sawah wrote:

> If you are a FreePBX user then i would suggest that you have a look  
> at A2billing. it's a great tool for "RETAIL" if you are selling to  
> individuals.
> BUT if you are doing a termination business.. which i suspect is the  
> situation here .. then first of all and before offering any  
> assistant .. i would advise you to secure your money .. many of  
> companies that buy termination services from people do not pay on  
> time .. and sometimes they don't pay at all.
> if you have secured your money the second step is easy.. get the IP  
> address of the person sending you calls.. and create a peer in your  
> sip.conf permitting their IP to send calls through your system.. and  
> use a different context than the one you are using for your local  
> users which is "from-internal"
> and then identify that new context in your extensions.conf or in  
> your case i would suggest using the extensions_custom.conf  so if  
> your context for example was [from-client] your dialplan is simple
> ###########
> [from-client]
> exten = _.,1,Dial(SIP/GATEWAYIP/${EXTEN})
> exten = _.,n,Hangup
> ###########
> that is all about it.. that's how i solve similar situation.. but my  
> advice is never use Asterisk in Termination.. it doesn't offer you  
> the best solution.. as Asterisk breaks the call into two combined  
> streams or "Legs" as some asterisk Gurus love to call it.
> if you can't afford a Quimtum Gateway or Cisco .. you can still work  
> with Asterisk for a while.  Please remember that asterisk requires a  
> lot of resources for the Encoding when using G729 and G723 codecs  
> that are widely used in Termination.
>
> hope this put some light on your request..
> have a nice day.
>
> -- AHD Tarek Sawah Integrated Digital Systems CCNP, MCSE, RHCE, VoIP  
> Syria: +963 944 618286 USA: +1 347 562 2308 
>
>
>
> > From: lists at latinbits.com
> > Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 14:43:55 -0500
> > To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> > Subject: [asterisk-users] How to resell my trunk/provider to others?
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've been tasked to look for ways to resell to others the service  
> that
> > one of a trunk provides.. In other words, i want to configure my
> > current Asterisk (Ver. 1.4.26.1) with Freepbx 2.6.0 so i can act  
> as a
> > trunk to others.. I would provide an IP to them from one of my  
> servers
> > and they will use that IP to connect to me and i will connect them  
> to
> > my trunk/provider.
> >
> > If possible, please provide some guidance as to where to start or a
> > link since i searched in google with no valuable results.. Maybe am
> > looking incorrectly.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Carlos
> >
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