[Serusers] Re: [Users] Detecting runaway calls

[Daryl Sanders]

That sounds very interesting. Is this a module you are working on?
I agree, it would be great to have a little more control over calls
without B2BUA.

- Daryl

On 10/27/05, Bogdan-Andrei Iancu <bogdan at voice-system.ro> wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> keeping the call control on your hands is an vital need...With the
> tomorrow release I prepared the first steps for a light dialog support
> based on Routing mechanism - complete FROM changing and restoring for
> the whole dialog was the prove of concept :).
> By being able to control the call from somewhere in the middle, I target
> especially issue no 2 and why not 4 and 5.
>
> ....and all this by avoiding the B2BUA.......
>
> regards,
> bogdan
>
> Greg Fausak wrote:
>
> >ya, that's been my experience too.
> > it's a bit embarrassing to send your customer a bill
> >for 18000 minutes on a single call...even if the gw operator
> >doesn't bill you, you bill your customer, right?
> >
> >i am very interested in a b2bua project. they
> >just come in handy for all sort of stuff.
> >
> >it is overkill for just terminating calls.  they have other
> >benefits as well...
> >
> >1) homogenize the packets you see
> >2) obscure your network/customers to gateways
> >     obscure gateways to your customers
> >3) reduce packet size
> >4) provide a handy spot to kill a call in progress
> >5) and my favorite, hung call detection
> >
> >unfortunately, none of these benefits is large enough to
> >convince some people that a b2bua is needed.
> >
> >-g
> >
> >
> >On 10/27/05, Klaus Darilion <klaus.mailinglists at pernau.at> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Daryl Sanders wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>This is exactly what I am trying to overcome. Do third party PSTN
> >>>providers typically employ any other means of monitoring a call? I
> >>>would think the would automatically disconnect the call after a
> >>>certain amount of time if there was no media detected.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Yes they should - but there a thousands of GW providers which have no
> >>glue about their equipment :-(
> >>
> >>klaus
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