Really? Yes, Specially when your service is metered, I don't know how some once justify good enough billing. Dealing with 500 customer calling every day for billing inquiries can turn out to be much more expensive then all other expenses.
" Next time I will consult with your authority on what works and does not work in production environments before implementing for large-scale billing solutions that are perfectly functional, and indeed, very much in production." No Need to be so contemptuous. On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Alex Balashov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Jai Rangi wrote: > > > "SIP-only accounting is "good enough" most of the time." > > > Does not work in production environment. > > Really? Next time I will consult with your authority on what works and > does not work in production environments before implementing for > large-scale billing solutions that are perfectly functional, and indeed, > very much in production. > > By the way, there are, of course mitigating strategies to minimise risk. > Dialog-stateful modules can end the dialog after a certain timeout, > you can send periodic re-invites with an SDP offer to probe the > endpoints, etc. > > It is far wiser than introducing a point of failure, a source of > latency, and a source of huge bandwidth and processing cost into the > call path when you don't need it. > > -- > Alex Balashov > Evariste Systems > Web : http://www.evaristesys.com/ > Tel : (+1) (678) 954-0670 > Direct : (+1) (678) 954-0671 > Mobile : (+1) (706) 338-8599 > > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >
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