[SIPForum-discussion] How is SIP billed ?

Yevgen Krapiva ykrapiva at gmail.com
Fri Apr 24 05:23:54 UTC 2009


Thanks you.

But, who can show an example of making SIP CDR  ? :)))
I wanted to see some simple examples...

2009/4/24, Manoj Priyankara [TG] <ManojPR at suntel.lk>:
> Hi,
>
> In my opinion, how the CDR generation depends on the way you design the
> network. If you want to get the CDR's for internal billing like
> extension calls in PBX groups, you have to handle the calls from the
> central SIP UAS.(May be the service provider's Soft Switch).
>
> In this case, only SIP signaling traffic has to travel all the way from
> the customer end to the service provider network.
>
> //
> Manoj
>
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> Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 10:02 PM
> To: Pat Borka
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> Subject: Re: [SIPForum-discussion] How is SIP billed ?
>
> Internal call billling leads to Lawfull Interception possibility.
> In some countries, especially in mine (Ukraine), vendors MUST provide
> possibility to sniff subscribers voice or data traffic.
>
> 2009/4/23, Pat Borka <pat.borka at gmail.com>:
>> If you are making a call internally why would you want to bill it? Not
>> to challenge the logic so much. I am more interested in the logic
>> behind internal billing.
>>
>> Pat
>>
>> On 4/23/09, Manish Aggarwal <maaggarwal at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>  Thats correct !!
>>>
>>> While there are well defined means to bill the "SIP trunk" calls, the
> SIP
>>> extension to extension calls cannot be billed with that much
> accuracy.
>>> May be thats the reason companies like Vonage, Viatalk, Sunrocket
>>> (already
>>> bankrupt)  etc, (which use SIP), take an annual charge, and not on a
> per
>>> call
>>> basis.
>>>
>>> -Manish
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:25 AM, Yevgen Krapiva <ykrapiva at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi.
>>>>
>>>> Can you say me what methods are used to bill SIP phone calls ?
>>>> As I understand, to bill SIP you must ensure that all SIP signalling
>>>> passes some Proxy or B2BUA. This is impossible as I can always call
>>>> another caller directly, passing by proxy.
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