[Serusers] how does a b2bua help billing

[Alberto Cruz]

Hi Shaikat I'm deploying a similar environment like you describe but I'm 
using Vovida instead Asterisk as B2BUA. I'm using mediaproxy for NAT 
traversal support and I'm having troubles when I try to place a call.
I'm not receiving any audio but the call is established. Do you have any 
idea according your experience?

Regards

Alberto Cruz

Shaikat Mahmud wrote:

>I have used Asterisk as B2bua. I have written an application to communicate
>with 3rd party billing software using Radius Client, Alepo RBS. In asterisk
>when any caller is willing to initiate a call, you can set a hang up time
>for that caller's channel. I have set the time when callee answered the
>Invite of asterisk. When asterisk does any RTP relay or other stuffs on that
>channel, then it checks when to hang up. It takes the current time from the
>system, compares it with Hang Up time. When Asterisk sees that time is over,
>it initiates the Protocol wise disconnect procedure.
>
>Shaikat Mahmud
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>Subject: [Serusers] how does a b2bua help billing
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>Hi
>
>I am curious as to how a b2bua does the billing side of things, I know it
>sits in the middle and the media goes through it, but how does it keep
>count of how long the session has been open for, does it keep a
>continously running count of time after a INVITE or use some other
>non-evasive method.
>
>If it keeps a continous count (I presume in memory), how does is initiate
>a disconnect, does it compare the time used with that left (which is
>determined at call start)
>
>Any links , pointers,
>
>Iqbal
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