Using one ITSP for domestic calls and another for International.

On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 2:20 AM, Todd Hodgen <[email protected]> wrote:

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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott Lawrence
> Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 2:48 PM
> To: Mark Gertsvolf
> Cc: sipX-dev
> Subject: Re: [sipX-dev] SIP trunk gateway selection by sipXbridge
>
> On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 17:11 -0500, Mark Gertsvolf wrote:
> > This post is in reference to http://track.sipfoundry.org/browse/XX-7235
> >
> > sipXecs dial plan logic is implemented in sipXproxy. sipXbridge
> > maintains ITSP accounts (SIP trunk gateways) and it is in charge of the
> > ITSP account selection when handling outgoing calls.
> > Even though sipXproxy dial plan logic knows the ITSP account (SIP trunk
> > gateway) chosen for a particular call it does not tell sipXbridge
> > explicitly what the account is. Instead it sets the domain name in R-URI
> > and also sets the CallerID ("from" header) before sending the request to
> > sipXbridge.
> >
> > In order to find the right ITSP account sipXbridge looks at the target
> > domain in R-URI and finds the ITSP account with matching domain. If
> > there are multiple ITSP accounts with the same domain the "from" header
> > is used for disambiguation.
> >
> > This mechanism to signal the choice of ITSP account from sipXproxy to
> > sipXbidge is not sufficiently reliable. It breaks when multiple accounts
> > exist with the same target domain name and when an external caller is
> > making a call, which is routed to sipXbridge. In case where the caller
> > is external sipXproxy CallerAlias plugin refuses to manipulate the
> > CallerID and the disambiguation of the ITSP accounts does not work.
> >
> > It is not totally clear to me why CallerAlias does not manipulate
> > CallerID for external callers, but regardless, it seems that the current
> > communication mechanism between the dial plan logic and sipXbridge is
> > not good enough.
> >
> > I think a better mechanism is required to communicate the ITSP account
> > information to sipXbridge rather then letting it guess which account to
> > use.
> > In the past similar communication details have been sent between sipXecs
> > components via proprietary headers. Is there a room for another such
> > header (something like: X-Sipx-itsp-account) to communicate the ITSP
> > account name to sipXbridge.
> >
> > Comments?
>
> I'd like to start with a question...
>
> What is the point of having multiple ITSP 'accounts' to the same domain?
> What is different about them and why do they exist?
>
> (more on some of the details above later - there are some good questions
> there, but I've got to go off line now)
>
>
>
> An example of multiple ITSP "Accounts" to the same domain.
>
> System installed for one company that sublets some of their empty office
> space, however, the sublets need trunks for their own set of billing
> requirements.  One way to handle is separate domain names if the ITSP
> supports this, but if they don't, then you need a method of identifying
> calls from one group of users to use one specific group of trunks for
> billing purposes.
>
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