RE: [Serusers] How to start a VOIP business ? - sr-users

20 Jun 2006

Thanks Prashant,

Can you give me more details about the CDR tool that comes with
Asterisk. My final aim is to provide PC-to-Phone service on a small
scale. Will your solution help me.

Note that I am replying from a new email address

Regards
Concy
-----Original Message-----
From: Prashant Bhalesain [mailto:prashb2000@yahoo.com] 
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 11:18 PM
To: Benjamin.George(a)t-systems.com; greger(a)teigre.com;
CPEREIRA(a)Human-soft.com
Cc: serusers(a)lists.iptel.org
Subject: RE: [Serusers] How to start a VOIP business ?

Boils down to Asterisk+SER I guess.

You can use asterisk as a voicemail server+media
server+CDR and SER as a SIP router. (connection to
PSTN/termination gateway?)

Asteriskathome provides most software bundled. worth
giving a try.

Prashant

--- Benjamin.George(a)t-systems.com wrote:

...
  Hi,

 I too can provide you some inputs on this apart from
 the things which are already mentioned: 

 1.	You may require a media server for playing
 prompts, announcements, etc
 2.	Voice mail server to store and play back voice
 mails
 3.	Signaling + Media Gateway if you want to connect
 to PSTN world
 4.	Any good performance management/monitoring tool
 (normally part of OSS) to measure and manage the
 performance of the entire infrastructure to assure
 zero/minimum downtime 

 Regards,

 Benjamin.

   _____  

 From: Greger V. Teigre [mailto:greger@teigre.com] 
 Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 1:51 PM
 To: Concy Pereira
 Cc: serusers(a)lists.iptel.org
 Subject: Re: [Serusers] How to start a VOIP business
 ?

 It's a fairly big questions you're asking. But
 basically you're onto it ;-)
 Ad 1. You should go for something newer than 9.0 
 Ad 2. You need to decide on your maintenance
 schedule and policies for upgrades/patching etc.
 Many larger-scale deployments are based on SER 0.9.x
 because a) it has proven extremely stable b) it is
 currently maintained for bug and security fixes and
 will be for a while. Others choose openser to get
 more features, but you need to make sure that you
 can handle testing and deployment of new versions
 more often.
 Ad 3. You need a RADIUS server with a user database
 or you can use mysql (you need mysql regardless of
 using RADIUS or not)

 g-)

 Concy Pereira wrote: 

 Sir,

 I would like to know how can start a successful SIP
 base VOIP business. I have being going through some
 documentation of Open server software but could not
 come to a conclusion.

 Anybody can suggest me a complete solution for
 running PC to Phone service Using GPL products, with
 accounting, authentication and authorization with
 different rate Plans etc.

 Here is what I have decided to do.

 SIP Server (Hardware)

 1. Linux RedHat 9.0 

 2. OpenSer or SIP express router 

 3. Radius client 

 Accounting  /CDR server ( Hardware)

 1. Linux Redhat 9.0 

 2. CDRTool by  ag-projects  
 http://www.ag-projects.co
 <http://www.ag-projects.co> m/cdrtool.html 

 3. MySQL 

 1.Carrirer

 Subcription to any International whole sale VOIP
 carrier

 Please suggest if I have missed anything out. 

 Regards,

 Concy

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