[Serusers] SER Experts

[Alistair Cunningham]

Shailesh,

If you're looking for commercial support in setting up SER, we can help. 
Send me an email off list describing what you're trying to achieve, and 
I'd be delighted to discuss this with you.

Alistair Cunningham,
Integrics Ltd,
+44 (0)7870 699 479
http://integrics.com/


Shailesh Tyagi wrote:
> Hi,
> i would like to setup SER for routing telecom minutes (softswitch),
> and looking for someone who have got indepth knowledge of SER and SIP
> protocol, anyone interested in offering services for the same?
> 
> W/rgs
> Shailesh Tyagi
> 
> On 5/26/05, Deepak Singhal <dsinghal at hotwireindia.com> wrote:
> 
>>I would be willing to contribute if someone can start a project on open
>>source billing for SER.
>>
>>Deepak Singhal
>>
>>________________________________
>>
>>From: serusers-bounces at iptel.org [mailto:serusers-bounces at lists.iptel.org] On
>>Behalf Of Manoj Ghag
>>Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 12:12 PM
>>To: serusers at lists.iptel.org; iqbal at gigo.co.uk
>>Subject: Re: [Serusers] VoIp Billing Solution SIP server compatible!!!
>>
>>
>>
>>hi, all
>>  Can't we go for development of Basic Billing solution in OPEN Source with
>>SER only .. I mean we can make Billing Model ready and can go ahead with the
>>same.
>>Does anyone find any issue in same ... ? I think if we can do this .. it
>>will be very helpful for many people .... Please let me know
>>
>>
>>Regards
>>Manoj Ghag
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Iqbal <iqbal at gigo.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>
>>       Hi
>>
>>       The reason why no one is really discussing much about billing here
>>as
>>       open source is that most have rolled there own.
>>
>>       serweb is a good starting point, but it is not a rating engine, it
>>will
>>       just work out how long the call is.
>>
>>       1. Now when you have this length of call you need to work out how
>>much
>>       its cost you, and how much it cost the end user...
>>
>>       2. For this you need to create a rates table or database
>>
>>       3. What I have is a prefix table which has 1800+ prefixes each one
>>of
>>       these is bound to a gateway, and hence can be routed out
>>differently,
>>       when required
>>
>>       4. I then have a cost table, this is what my buying price is
>>
>>       5. I then have a selling price table
>>
>>       6. For resellers we are building a drill down structure where they
>>have
>>       there buying price and selling price
>>
>>       7. Now you need a rating structure
>>
>>       8. You may have a different price based on time of day and day of
>>week
>>       etc etc
>>
>>       9. So now you have price per prefix, based on time of day and day of
>>week
>>
>>       10. You see when call is made you do the maths and work out the cost
>>to
>>       you , and cost to customers, if the former is lesser than the latter
>>ur
>>       making money :-), at a gross level, if not, bad business model :-)
>>
>>       12. Different types of cutomers may get charged differently, i.e
>>large
>>       corporates should always pay more, hence your price may also vary
>>based
>>       on customer_type
>>
>>       13. Now if its postpaid you need to also do a bill run once a month,
>>       convert to pdf, and email out, just to make things easy, and then
>>link
>>       to your legacy accounting system..
>>
>>       So you see everyone will have something slightly different, but I
>>hope
>>       the above steps may help
>>
>>       Iqbal
>>
>>       On 5/21/2005, "Ollie Gejevski" wrote:
>>
>>       >Hey guys,
>>       >I notice qu ite a few people are looking for a Billing solution.
>>Please
>>       >contact me as I can help.  We already have few companies from this
>>board use
>>       >our solution with great success.    We are Cisco as well as SIP
>>server  (
>>       >SER, SNOM ) compatible. Check out our website HYPERLINK
>>       >"http://www.cyneric.com"www.cyneric.com  Please contact me
>>HYPERLINK
>>       >"mailto:ollie.g at cyneric.com"ollie.g at cyneric.com for more
>>information.  All
>>       >the best
>>       >
>>       >Ollie
>>       >
>>       >
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