9 Mar
2005
9 Mar
'05
5:45 a.m.
Hi Hans,
This is a great thing. Can't we place this BSS code at
berlios? And then may be put a link from iptel.org
site under 3rd party software. As Alexey willing to
set up a SER community site may be you can place the
docs there as well.
By the way are you involved in Yxa and the minisip
developments at KTH?
Regards,
Lakmal
--- Hans Eriksson <hans(a)hecc.se> wrote:
Guys,
this discussion faded away. Is it still hot but
carried out somewhere
else?
Anyway, I am committed to put my business support
system in the open
source. We use it both in projects at Royal Institue
of Technology
(KTH), Stockholm, as well as commercially
(www.xtrafone.com). The BSS
handles order, customers, accounts, rating, billing
(pre-paid),
customer My Pages, etc. The lot!
KTH use SER as its proxies wheras we use the
Asterisk in
www.xtrafone.com. As long as there are CDRs placed
in a MySql tables,
the BSS can pick that up and rate, charge.
I have also written a couple of How-To (install ser,
mysql etc).
All this I'd like to add to the pot. I am all for to
create a complete
package for a commercial or non-commercial VoIP
operator that includes
a proxy, gateway and BSS. And also the docs
describing best practices
(ser.cfg, logging, NAT traversal, etc). Just add
marketing and
customers and you roll.
For the BSS I don't really know where to place the
code. Beside the
ser? sourceforge? It is written in /bin/sh, awk, SQL
and php (no,
nothing to compile!). Runs on any Linux, MacOSX and
FreeBSD system.
Can we get this discussion thread going again and
get started putting
our stuff into a shared pool where we can get going
to change the world
(I just could not hold back :-).
/hans
2005-02-21 kl. 14.28 skrev Iqbal Gandham:
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Great idea, can I also suggest, and I can help
out
if needs (simply
because I am one of them struggling users :-)) is
a debug guide, all
devices seem to have a few quirks to the setup,
and they all seem to
have different setting, eg some support only
STUN,
some use the
proxying, others you can dela with at the server
end etc etc, what I
think owuld be useful is a guide to what its
supposed to look like,
i.e the debug log.
I have been through the entire sip syntax , to
figure out where the
messages go/come from, but with the contact
headers, From, and c= I
can see how it can get a little confusing
Iqbal
PS 0.10 works quite nicely
Java Rockx wrote:
> Steve,
> I fully agree - and this is the exact reason that
this cannot be a
> single person endeavor.
> Regards,
> Paul
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 07:28:02 -0500, Steve Blair
> <blairs(a)isc.upenn.edu> wrote:
>> Greger V. Teigre wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Paul, I fully support the approach: Make one
reference design with a
>>> complete ser.cfg. This will give us
a Getting
Started. We can
>>> later
>>> add sections on the more advanced stuff like
redundancy, radius,
>>> etc.
>>> Thanks for your review of the components in
such a reference design
>>> (I'll relate to those further
below).
>>>
>>> I believe there are two hurdles to get on top
of ser: Get a first
>>> working config up and running and
then
understanding the concepts
>>> good
>>> enough to start tweaking. Many will not have
all the components of
>>> the full reference system you
describe, Paul,
so a starting point
>>> with
>>> a minimum system is probably needed. I.e. Get
a UA registered
>>> without
>>> auth, etc (I see some questions on this too)
>>>
>>
>> I'd like to add a third hurdle, keeping this or
any documentation
>> up-to-date. One of the biggest issues
>> I've faced is keeping a working, production
supporting, configuration
>> "correct" across release
changes.
>> The situation doesn't get better if there is
alot of out dated
>> documentation.
>>
>> In addition to a few core examples I'd suggest a
clearly worded
>> changelog. The changelog needs to
>> be clearly show what has changed and what is
impacted by the change
>> on a
>> release by release basis.
>>
>> $0.02
>>
>>
>>> I thus see the following things that must be
addressed:
>>> - How to read the basic ser.cfg
>>> - The basic ser.cfg, what does it do, what is
the reference design
>>> (is
>>> the ser.cfg in cvs appropriate?)
>>> - A description of the reference design with a
"component
list"
>>> - The complete ser.cfg
>>> - Conceptual explanations of each logical part
of the ser.cfg
>>> - External systems (Asterisk,
mediaproxy/nathelper), configs, etc
>>>
>>> See my inline comments with regards to a
reference design.
>>>
>>>
>>>> My setup uses SER v0.9 and Asterisk-1.0.2. The
Asterisk server is
>>>> used
>>>> __ONLY__ for voicemail because - well lets
face it, Asterisk sucks
>>>> as
>>>> a SIP router because it just isn't designed to
be one.
>>>>
>>>> So all users are managed by SER and Asterisk
only comes into play
>>>> for
>>>> voicemail and for playing recordings such as
"the party you
are
>>>> calling has blocked your
call" when a call
block is enabled.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> We also use 0.9, but does not yet support
voicemail. I think we
>>> should concentrate on 0.9
capabilities and
forget about 0.8.14.
>>> Most
>>> people starting up now will probably use 0.9,
at least shortly when
>>> it
>>> is released as stable.
>>>
>>> Voicemail adds a layer of complexity in terms
of scalability and
>>> redundancy. IMHO we should leave out
voicemail
from the reference
>>> design, not because it is something
most people
would not want, but
>>> because it introduces an external
component and
complexity that is
>>> better added later in the document
(like
redundancy). That being
>>> said,
>>> I think we should include voicemail and
voiceprompts as part of the