Hi I am looking at exchanging/carrying traffic for a international company, who wishes to terminate locally, they want to hand me SIP traffic, now what the easist setup for billing on something like this, I dont think it needs to pass via SER at all, since they would have done all the processing b4 it hit me, hence should I just connect directly to the gateway (cisco), and then take care of the billing there. tks Iqbal _______________________________________________ Serusers mailing list serusers(a)lists.iptel.org http://lists.iptel.org/mailman/listinfo/serusers

Igbal, Normally, you would want carrier traffic to go thru your proxy so you can authenticate and authorize the request. From that point on, you can use routing/forwarding to send the request to a proper terminating gateway or another proxy. That way, your customer only has to work with a single IP address when sending you traffic. However, if you really want to give them your cisco's ip address then you can configure you cisco gateway for radius or diameter accounting. Using open source radius servers, you can output radius records into the database like mysql or other relational database. You can use tools like http://www.ag-projects.com/CDRTool.html to perform your billing. Hope this helps Alex -----Original Message----- From: serusers-bounces(a)iptel.org [mailto:serusers-bounces@lists.iptel.org] On Behalf Of Iqbal Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 6:29 AM To: serusers(a)lists.iptel.org Subject: [Serusers] SIP interconnect best practice Hi I am looking at exchanging/carrying traffic for a international company, who wishes to terminate locally, they want to hand me SIP traffic, now what the easist setup for billing on something like this, I dont think it needs to pass via SER at all, since they would have done all the processing b4 it hit me, hence should I just connect directly to the gateway (cisco), and then take care of the billing there. tks Iqbal _______________________________________________ Serusers mailing list serusers(a)lists.iptel.org http://lists.iptel.org/mailman/listinfo/serusers _______________________________________________ Serusers mailing list serusers(a)lists.iptel.org http://lists.iptel.org/mailman/listinfo/serusers .