[Serusers] Re: [Users] Detecting runaway calls

[Iqbal]

great news, that way asterisk can be left to deal with all the pbx and 
other fancy features, and billing stays in SER...where I always think it 
should be.

Iqbal

Bogdan-Andrei Iancu 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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>>
>> -- 
>> Greg Fausak
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