[Freeswitch-users] Freeswitch - wholesale setup

Rupa Schomaker rupa at rupa.com
Thu Jul 8 08:29:56 PDT 2010


This is really an extensive list.  Nearly all of this is on the wiki.  If
that is too much, a email response to pages on the wiki isn't going to be of
much help.  Perhaps you need a consultant?

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Voip Newbie <voipnewbie123 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear List,
>
> I am new to voip and to freeswitch and I am trying to learn how to setup a
> wholesale scenario using FreeSwitch. I have very little experience in
> running wholesale voip business on voipswitch.
>
> I know all or most of the answers to my questions are already either in
> wiki or in list archive, and I am really sorry to email the list asking for
> help but with the little knowledge I have its way over my head and I failed
> to compile the information in right way to achieve any result, please
> forgive me if these questions bother any of you at all.
>
> Here is what I wish to achieve with FreeSwitch:
>
> 1) Setup username/password less accounts for customers with IP
> authentication. One customer can have multiple IPs. Customer can send
> traffic using SIP or H323 protocol. A prefix will be assigned to customer
> for sending traffic. Eg. 1234 + Country code + Area code + Number.
> 2) Customer can be post paid or per paid, so need to disable customer's
> ability to call when assigned credit limit is reached.
> 3) Setup providers (Gateways) which do not provide username/password for
> authentication and do not require FreeSwitch to register with them,
> FreeSwitch IP will be allowed to send traffic directly with a 3-4 digit
> prefix. Provider can be on H323 or SIP either and can have multiple IPs (1
> primary and other for fail-over)
> 4) Customer and providers need access to CDR. So we need to configure
> Freeswitch the way that it can store CDRs in MySQL database, that database
> can be accessed by a web application to show CDR on web.
>
> *Hardware and OS info:*
> CentOS 5.4 (Linux 2.6.18-164.15.1.el5PAE on i686)
> Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5420 @ 2.50GHz, 4 cores
> 4 GB RAM.
> 1 GIGABIT NIC with a Public IP address
>
> *Progress so far:*
> 1) FreeSwitch installed with installation procedure at FreeSwitch Wiki (
> http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Installation_Guide#Download_Source_Tarball
> )
> 2) Registered and called already created extensions (1001,1002) from
> x-lite, called echo extensions and everything worked fine.
>
> *Questions:*
> 1) I can see there are 2 H323 mods available for FreeSwitch, which one is
> better to use in production.
>    a) http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FreeSwitch_H323
>    b) http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Mod_h323
> 2) How and where (location in freeswitch conf) can I create customers, add
> IP addresses to authorize without username and password, assign a prefix to
> the customer? An example would be nice.
> 3) How and where (location in freeswitch conf) I can create gateways. An
> example would be nice.
> 4) Where to create dialplan to route customer calls to provider. An example
> would be nice.
> 5) How to manage credit assigned to customers, and how to bill the calls?
> 6) How to configure Freeswitch so that it can dump CDRs to a mysql
> database.
> 7) According to FreeSwitch feature list, it supports g723 and g729 in
> pass-througe mode, so this means if both customer and providers support g729
> & g723, calls will pass?
> 8) Is there any limit on g729 and g723 calls in pass-through mood?
> 9) Approx how many concurrent calls can FreeSwitch support in H323 and in
> SIP based on the hardware info given above.
>
>  Any pointers, help, links, examples will be highly appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> -Eric
>
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-Rupa
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