Hello, I've discovered that in Italy ISDN lines can be programmed to generate a "billing pulse" every n seconds (it dipends from the pricebook). The pulse has these figures: frequency .................................................................... 12 kHz ? 1% level .......................................................................... 200 mVrms on 200 distortion................................................................... < 5% pulse duration .............................................................125 ? 25 ms pause duration ................................................................> 180 ms period .......................................................................> 300 ms Does someone know if these values can be used somehow to get an accurate billing using asterisk with these lines? Could be a matter of configuration or programming? Thanks Stefano
Funny that a digital line have a analogue pulse. Normally the billing pulse is used on payphones. IMO you only need the answer supervision to trigger your own billing system. Jorge Mendoza Stefano Corsi wrote:> Hello, > > I've discovered that in Italy ISDN lines can be programmed to generate > a "billing pulse" every n seconds (it dipends from the pricebook). The > pulse has these figures: > > frequency > .................................................................... > 12 kHz ? 1% > > level > .......................................................................... > 200 mVrms on 200 > > distortion................................................................... > < 5% > pulse duration > .............................................................125 ? 25 ms > pause duration > ................................................................> 180 ms > period > .......................................................................> > 300 ms > > Does someone know if these values can be used somehow to get an > accurate billing using asterisk with these lines? Could be a matter of > configuration or programming? > > Thanks > Stefano > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Hi "Billing Pulses" only apply to analogue lines. You need special hardware in the PBX interface to detect them and pass them on to the Billing software. To my knowlege there is no Asterisk compatible hardware that does this. George ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stefano Corsi" <scorsi@floo.it> To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 4:04 PM Subject: [asterisk-users] Billing pulses> Hello, > > I've discovered that in Italy ISDN lines can be programmed to generate a > "billing pulse" every n seconds (it dipends from the pricebook). The pulse > has these figures: > > frequency > .................................................................... 12 > kHz ? 1% > > level > .......................................................................... > 200 mVrms on 200 > > distortion................................................................... > < 5% > pulse duration > .............................................................125 ? 25 ms > pause duration > ................................................................> 180 ms > period > .......................................................................> > 300 ms > > Does someone know if these values can be used somehow to get an accurate > billing using asterisk with these lines? Could be a matter of > configuration or programming? > > Thanks > Stefano > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.29/673 - Release Date: 2/6/2007 > 5:52 PM > >
On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 21:00 +0100, George Camilleri wrote:> Hi > > "Billing Pulses" only apply to analogue lines. You need special hardware in > the PBX interface to detect them and pass them on to the Billing software. > To my knowlege there is no Asterisk compatible hardware that does this.ISDN has AOC (advice of charge) and does not require special hardware. Iirc a while back there was some development of AOC support for Asterisk but I am not aware of the current status. Regards, Patrick
In article <006701c74b9c$2edf3570$6702a8c0@Monroy>, connect@onvol.net says...> You then ask the telco to include Advice of Charge (AOC) in your ISDN setup. > The AOC then is included somewhere in the Asterisk CDR, but I don't have > direct experience of this. You can then get appropriate software to issue > bills to telephone users.Unfortunately, as far as I know, Asterisk can't store AOC messages in database. So, provider sends perfectly usable messages, and Asterisk detects them (they are shown on CLI) but it can't store them anywhere. Said. -- Tomislav Parcina ime.prezime@email.t-com.hr