asterisk users - Jan 2007 - Comments on Billing reconcillation with providers

Hi,

I just want out find out how to do bill recon's when you send calls to a
provider.  They send me
their CDR's, and when I compare it to my * CDR's, some calls are 1
second off, either way.
How in general is it done by others?

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thanks,
Yusuf

On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 16:23 +0200, yusuf wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just want out find out how to do bill recon's when you send calls to
a provider.  They send me
> their CDR's, and when I compare it to my * CDR's, some calls are 1
second off, either way.
> How in general is it done by others?
> 

Yusuf, 

to what fraction of a second are you performing a compare? 

Carrier reconciliation has to take into account the propagation delay of
the call request if the calls traverse multiple switches. In past we
performed a compare on the basis of multiple details ingress,egress,
call time, answer time, etc.  If you are trying to perform a flat
reconciliation against call times only without any other details being
compared you will drive yourself crazy.  As for one or two second
differences, they seem to be in line if your are using VOIP for your
service offerings. If on the other hand you are using a local carrier
over copper then they should be closer on length, but not necessarily on
start or end times.


Hope that was worth something to you!

db

In article <45BF54CC.8070308@ecntelecoms.com>, yusuf@ecntelecoms.com
says...
> Hi,
> 
> I just want out find out how to do bill recon's when you send calls to
a provider.  They send me
> their CDR's, and when I compare it to my * CDR's, some calls are 1
second off, either way.
> How in general is it done by others?
Most providers send advice of charge messages (AOC). Unfortunately, asterisk
can't store them in database or manipulate with them at any way.


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