[OpenSIPS-Users] prepaid with call plan

[Dani Popa]

Hi Bogdan,

I know that opensips care just about SIP part. But my question is if
somebody tried to make this setup with call_control and opensips. I did
prepaid part, but now, i'm stuck in billing part. I have to tell radius
that the call belongs to some service plans(i have to setup some flag
and then pass it to radius somehow ) and the price for that call is 0. I
just try to avoid to make changes in call_control  module to return
(other value then  2 - call with no limit, 1 - call with call control
limit, -1, and so on..) that mean in my case, call belongs to some
service plan and to setup flag for billing in that case.


Thanks,
Dani

Bogdan-Andrei Iancu wrote:
> Hi Dani,
>
> OpenSIPS is a SIP server so it does not care at all about rating
> plans, billing profiles, etc...It is doing only the SIP part.
>
> So, from PrePaid perspective, opensips is a SIP call controller, which
> keeps that state of the call and it is able to terminate (from middle)
> an ongoing call when instructed (from outside).
>
> Typically you integrate opensips with a billing/rating engine. Most
> used approaches are:
>    - when call is established, opensips queries the billing engine
> (DB, RADIUS, custom ) to see what's the maximum duration for that call
> ; so opensips will terminate the call if this max duration is
> exceeded. (you can use the dialog module)
>    - opensips informs the billing when a new call is established
> (again, DB, RADIUS, etc) and allows the billing to trigger the call
> termination from outside (like billing is keep computing costs and
> when there is no more credit, it notifies opensips to terminate the
> call) - again, you can use here the dialog module with the dlg_end_dlg
> command via XMLRPC .
>
> Regards,
> Bogdan
>
> Dani Popa wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I wonder, how can be implemented with opensips prepaid system with
>> service plans with included minutes. Can someone to give me some hints ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dani Popa
>>
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