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mobilexpi
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2007-06-22
Submitted by mobilexpi on Wed, 07/11/2007 - 9:39pm.

Hello:
In my company we're migrating all the telephony service to toip, first of all we buy a server and we buy a VoipNow license (because with trixbox we can't billing our extension)...the software is $%/$("·...but no comments...it's poor in scalability, trunks and config.

The point is in a first step I must create 300 Voip extension, I think that we don't have problems to manage aprox. 100 concurrent calls, the server is a Opteron Dual Core 2GHz, 2GB of RAM, 160GB SATA HDD, connected to a 100mbps network. But in a second step I need to migrate a total of 1200 extensions to voip, and in a third step (the total of extension to voip) I must migrate 2000 extensions to voip...I think that a single server can't manage this large quantity of extensions..

Exist any way to use multiple servers, but with a unified billing system to control the clients, and without loosing the great feature of free in network (to the 3000 extensions) calls??
Can I do this with trixbox?

Thanks

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dickson
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2006-06-02
What sort of billing are you
Wed, 07/11/2007 - 9:50pm

What sort of billing are you doing? Long distance billing?
"out of the box" there is no billing software with trixbox, but the CDR tables are quite well populated. We had our DBAs access the SQL tables and extrapolate inbound and outbound calls, and based on outbound CLID we set a billing rate for each call. Sent this information to an accounting package that itemized it and sends a bill.


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mobilexpi
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2007-06-22
I want to billing all the
Wed, 07/11/2007 - 10:14pm

I want to billing all the external traffic (outgoing) to the pstn and long distance calls...
I want to divide my extensions in two types...unlimited (I need to check the total money that each extension spend each month) and with limitatio (that the extension have a credit...for example 10 bucks, and if it uses all the credit they can't make more calls)...


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dickson
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2006-06-02
Well, if you look at the CDR
Wed, 07/11/2007 - 10:26pm

Well, if you look at the CDR table, there is a column that shows the amount of 'duration' in seconds that the call was on..and shows source number and destination number. If its just straight duration use you are trying to identify, you might not need to buy an expensive billing platform...but this is really dependent on how much you can automate the entire process. I had a DBA look at our tables and within several hours, he was able to produce very detailed records. These could then be given to someone with an accounting background and an appropriate accounting system to import the data and generate an invoice. A call is no different than someone purchasing some sort of widget. Its an item with a cost.
Its got a little more complex when we were trying to identify the area the person was calling based on CLID, but even that was sorted out.


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