[SR-Users] Prepaid billing solution for a service provider

[Carlo Dimaggio]

Hi Stoyan,

I prefer Freeswitch, but I know that Asterisk can do prepaid and there 
are different prepaid solutions.
Anyway, as the prepaid server is a mission-critical component, I would 
like to have your (and the community) opinion about the preferred 
architecture and experiences about opensource/commercial solution 
(advantages and drawbacks).
All the billing solution are good enough for a service provider 
environment? How I can choose the right solution if all vendors say that 
their solution is the best one? :)

Regards,



Il 05/01/12 13.18, Stoyan Mihaylov ha scritto:
> I can suggest using Asterisk for prepaid job.
> I mean you can use Kamailio and couple of Asterisk servers behind it 
> to do prepaid. There are lot of prepaid solutions for Asterisk. But 
> again, if I have to do it I will prefer my solution, or using parts 
> from what is available.
> PS
> We did prepaid things for Asterisk.
>
> On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Carlo Dimaggio <jaasmailing at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jaasmailing at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     I'm working in a project for a service provider in which prepaid
>     is an essential requirement. They have about 12000 subscribers.
>     The core infrastructure will be Kamailio+RTPProxy while I have
>     some doubts about the prepaid feature. I'm thinking about a B2BUA
>     (SEMS or Freeswitch) that is called if the user belong to a
>     "prepaid group" and perform authorization and accounting; in this
>     case the SIP flow could be: Kamailio -> B2BUA(Prepaid) ->
>     Kamailio. Is a good choice?
>
>     At the moment I cannot estimate the effort needed to develop this
>     section (base prepaid feature) of the project... Do you have some
>     hints?
>
>     What are the prepaid solution implemented by you? Do you use your
>     own developed solution or do you think that is better to choose a
>     commercial solution (that provide also calling-card and other
>     features)?
>     I have seen some commercial products (Portabilling,
>     Jerasoft/Bilberry, ...); what do you think about?
>
>
>     Best Regards,
>
>
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