Anyone experimented with Calling Card support in *.... Am I wrong in presuming that if I have one calling card caller call in and want to complete a call I will use 2 lines (1 for the customers inbound and another to complete the remote call)?? Thanks
Huddleston, Robert wrote:>Anyone experimented with Calling Card support in *.... Am I wrong in >presuming that if I have one calling card caller call in and want to >complete a call I will use 2 lines (1 for the customers inbound and another >to complete the remote call)?? > >It depends wether you are using POTS or VOIP to terminate the call. -- Ykoz Un Max - La VoIP en pr?-pay?! Essayez gratuitement - 5 cr?dits offerts. ---> http://ykoz.net/voip/max <---
Yes, if I understand what you are asking. 1. The Card User calls to your asterisk PBX. 2. Asterisk answers the call on line 1. 3. Asterisk places an outgoing call on line 2 bridging the lines. (That is how it works in the SIP world.) So you would need an FXO/FSO pair of lines to let them make a call in the analog/digital/TDM world. Now, as to the definition of a line: Line 1 is a PSTN line because they are using a calling card to get to your Asterisk PBX. Line 2 could be a VoIP line to another Asterisk PBX or like PBX/switch. In this case you only need 1 PSTN/Analog/DS0 type line to receive incoming calls. --- If you provide the calling card person with a VoIP phone, then you don't need the PSTN lines. Because both line 1 and line 2 are IP connections. My guess is that you want to start a calling card business based on VoIP. Then you need PSTN (Telephone Company) lines to collect the incoming PSTN calls and convert those calls to the internet VoIP calls. If you want to host termination of calls, that is where calls come "long distance" into your PBX and you convert them back into local calls. This is where you partner with another calling card provider and he terminates his calls to your phone lines locally. The two of you trade off call termination; the one who makes the most calls pays the difference to the other guy for using his lines for out going calls to the PSTN lines. Is that your questions? Either way you need to remember to budget for a billing system. Race "The Tyrant" Vanderdecken -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Huddleston, Robert Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 11:45 AM To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion' Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Calling Card Anyone experimented with Calling Card support in *.... Am I wrong in presuming that if I have one calling card caller call in and want to complete a call I will use 2 lines (1 for the customers inbound and another to complete the remote call)?? Thanks _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
-----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com]On Behalf Of Huddleston, Robert Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 10:45 AM To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion' Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Calling Card Anyone experimented with Calling Card support in *.... Am I wrong in presuming that if I have one calling card caller call in and want to complete a call I will use 2 lines (1 for the customers inbound and another to complete the remote call)?? Thanks You are not wrong ____________ ___________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
> Anyone experimented with Calling Card support in *.... Am I wrong in > presuming that if I have one calling card caller call in and want to > complete a call I will use 2 lines (1 for the customers inbound and another > to complete the remote call)??If you use IAX2 termination for incoming and outgoing calls (Voicepulse for instance), the call, once established will be natively bridged on your providers network, not using any resources on your own * box.
> > Anyone experimented with Calling Card support in *.... Am I wrong in > > presuming that if I have one calling card caller call in and want to > > complete a call I will use 2 lines (1 for the customers inbound and > > another to complete the remote call)?? > > If you use IAX2 termination for incoming and outgoing calls > (Voicepulse for instance), the call, once established will be natively > bridged on your providers network, not using any resources on your own > * box.Seeing as he would need control over the signalling of the call and seeing as how IAX handles media and signalling together, that is not true for his scenario. -- Nabeel Jafferali X2 Networks www.x2n.ca T: 1.647.722.6900 1.877.VOIP.X2N F: 1.866.655.6698 FWD: 46990
Good answers to all... My idea a) Use a h323 / sip / mgcp line from the CLEC I'm employeed with... This line will register with the * as an inbound line... Probably have series hunting - thus I could get 50 #'s in a hunt group and you only have to call the lead and get a line into the pbx... b) Use h323 / sip /mgcp line from the same clec I work for as the termination line... This is where my concern is... If I have to pay for 2 lines per each customer live in the system - this becomes costly.... That's why the idea of maybe using BRI would be somewhat more attractive... BRI delivers more then one channel that I could use.. Any ideas?? Plus the native bridging by the network would be great - but you are right - as far as customer used 10 units and it's time to drop their call - this could not be done... -----Original Message----- From: Nabeel Jafferali [mailto:asterisk-lists@x2n.ca] Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 2:18 PM To: 'Dylan VanHerpen'; 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion' Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Calling Card> > Anyone experimented with Calling Card support in *.... Am I wrong in > > presuming that if I have one calling card caller call in and want to > > complete a call I will use 2 lines (1 for the customers inbound and > > another to complete the remote call)?? > > If you use IAX2 termination for incoming and outgoing calls > (Voicepulse for instance), the call, once established will be natively > bridged on your providers network, not using any resources on your own > * box.Seeing as he would need control over the signalling of the call and seeing as how IAX handles media and signalling together, that is not true for his scenario. -- Nabeel Jafferali X2 Networks www.x2n.ca T: 1.647.722.6900 1.877.VOIP.X2N F: 1.866.655.6698 FWD: 46990 _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
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