[Serusers] How to start a VOIP business ?

[Prashant Bhalesain]

Boils down to Asterisk+SER I guess.

You can use asterisk as a voicemail server+media
server+CDR and SER as a SIP router. (connection to
PSTN/termination gateway?)

Asteriskathome provides most software bundled. worth
giving a try.

Prashant

--- Benjamin.George at t-systems.com wrote:

> Hi,
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> 
> I too can provide you some inputs on this apart from
> the things which are already mentioned: 
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> 1.	You may require a media server for playing
> prompts, announcements, etc
> 2.	Voice mail server to store and play back voice
> mails
> 3.	Signaling + Media Gateway if you want to connect
> to PSTN world
> 4.	Any good performance management/monitoring tool
> (normally part of OSS) to measure and manage the
> performance of the entire infrastructure to assure
> zero/minimum downtime 
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> 
> Regards,
> 
> Benjamin.
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>   _____  
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> From: Greger V. Teigre [mailto:greger at teigre.com] 
> Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 1:51 PM
> To: Concy Pereira
> Cc: serusers at lists.iptel.org
> Subject: Re: [Serusers] How to start a VOIP business
> ?
> 
>  
> 
> It's a fairly big questions you're asking. But
> basically you're onto it ;-)
> Ad 1. You should go for something newer than 9.0 
> Ad 2. You need to decide on your maintenance
> schedule and policies for upgrades/patching etc.
> Many larger-scale deployments are based on SER 0.9.x
> because a) it has proven extremely stable b) it is
> currently maintained for bug and security fixes and
> will be for a while. Others choose openser to get
> more features, but you need to make sure that you
> can handle testing and deployment of new versions
> more often.
> Ad 3. You need a RADIUS server with a user database
> or you can use mysql (you need mysql regardless of
> using RADIUS or not)
> 
> g-)
> 
> 
> Concy Pereira wrote: 
> 
> Sir,
> 
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> 
> I would like to know how can start a successful SIP
> base VOIP business. I have being going through some
> documentation of Open server software but could not
> come to a conclusion.
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> Anybody can suggest me a complete solution for
> running PC to Phone service Using GPL products, with
> accounting, authentication and authorization with
> different rate Plans etc.
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> Here is what I have decided to do.
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> SIP Server (Hardware)
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> 1. Linux RedHat 9.0 
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> 2. OpenSer or SIP express router 
> 
> 3. Radius client 
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> Accounting  /CDR server ( Hardware)
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> 1. Linux Redhat 9.0 
> 
> 2. CDRTool by  ag-projects  
> http://www.ag-projects.co
> <http://www.ag-projects.co> m/cdrtool.html 
> 
> 3. MySQL 
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> 1.Carrirer
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> Subcription to any International whole sale VOIP
> carrier
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> 
> Please suggest if I have missed anything out. 
> 
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> 
> Regards,
> 
>  
> 
> Concy
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