-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of M. Ranganathan Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 8:55 AM To: Paul Mossman Cc: Mudumbai Ranganathan; [email protected] Subject: Re: [sipX-dev] A proposal regarding model of gateway <->ITSP account insipX
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Paul Mossman <[email protected]> wrote: > Jason wrote: >> This would require some changes in the sipxconfig to allow >> define ITSP independently and a gateway could refer to them >> by selection. >> >> Could you have a look and comment on it? > > So we would need a new screen where you define the ITSP Accounts? And > in order to create "SIP trunk"-type Gateways, you need to have at least > one ITSP Account? You do not need an ITSP account necessarily to have a SIP Trunk gateway. You would only need one if you are routing the request to SIPXBRIDGE. > > The reason would be so that multiple Gateways can use the same ITSP > Account? Therefore you would not have to re-enter the ITSP Account > credentials for each Gateway? No that is not the reason why. Re-entry would be a bad thing ideed and you will have people complaining but that is not my primary concern. The reason you would want such a screen because otherwise, you wind up with multiple identical entries in sipxbridge.xml and that is a problem. sipxbridge can sift through the mess of duplicate entries thus created in sipxbridge.xml all the information in it. It is bad design. > > > If so, then: > > 1. What portion of our customer who use SIP Trunks will have multiple > Gateways using the same ITSP Account? (<10%, 10-25%, >25%?) I would say < 10% BUT the more important thing is that these are two different things. Why are they coupled? > > 2. Of those customers, how many Gateways using the same ITSP Account > will they have? (2-6, 6-12, >12?) 3.776 % Really! (Just kidding) But really, polling aside, this is a bad design that is confusing, causes needless coupling and is wrong. This must be fixed for that reason. Regards, Ranga > > > > -Paul > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > sipx-dev mailing list [email protected] > List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-dev > Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-dev > sipXecs IP PBX -- http://www.sipfoundry.org/ > I may be missing the point here, but I don't think that users have multiple Gateways using the same ITSP account. They may have multiple Gateways using the same ITSP. In that case, the ITSP needs to provide a different termination point for each gateway. I have a customer doing that now - three accounts with the same ITSP, each terminates on a different IP address at the same ITSP, and each has its own gateway that works fine with sipXecs. Additionally, many ITSP's have sub-accounts. With this, you have separate accounts to log into for subaccounts under the same account. The trick is the same here, you have to terminate each sub account at a different IP address from other sup accounts or the main account. _______________________________________________ sipx-dev mailing list [email protected] List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-dev Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-dev sipXecs IP PBX -- http://www.sipfoundry.org/
