[Serusers] How to start a VOIP business ?

[Ryan Pagquil]

Hi,
         To easily manage accounting and authorization use radius. 
I'm using radius for these purposes.

regards,
Ryan

At 08:21 AM 6/21/2006, Nick Hoffman wrote:
> > Concy Pereira wrote:
> > > Sir,
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > Here is what I have decided to do.
> > >
> > > SIP Server (Hardware)
> > > 1. Linux RedHat 9.0
> > > 2. OpenSer or SIP express router
> > > 3. Radius client
> > >
> > > Accounting  /CDR server ( Hardware)
> > > 1. Linux Redhat 9.0
> > > 2. CDRTool by  ag-projects   http://www.ag-projects.com/cdrtool.html
> > > 3. MySQL
> > >
> > > 1.Carrirer
> > > Subcription to any International whole sale VOIP carrier
> > >
> > > Please suggest if I have missed anything out.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Concy
>
>
>On Mon June 19 2006 18:21, "Greger V. Teigre" <greger at teigre.com> wrote:
> > 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-)
>
>
>Hi there Greger. I'm curious as to why a RADIUS server is required. Is this
>for billing purposes?
>-- Nick
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