provided by Star2Billing S.L.

Hello everyone. I have been reading a2billing´s docs. and i am wondering if
a2billing can be used as a wholesale billing product.

I am looking to send and receive and redirect(sip redirect) voip traffic with Asterisk.
Anyone knows if a2billing handles trunks and carriers?

Thanks a lot,regards
Herlit11

Hi


Yes it can, we have a few deployments with it being used in that role.

Joe

Hi Joe, thanks for your answer. I was wondering if it took any programming from you
to get it working as a full wholesale voip/carrier software?

Or was it just a matter of correct configuration?

Thanks a lot,regards
Herlit11

Hi

It's just a matter of the appropriate SIP configurations, and agi-conf configurations. e.g. don't answer the call, don't play audio, don't play the balance, Remove the R and r to remove false ring etc etc.

Joe

Ok, thanks. I´ll give it a try and see how it works out.

All the routing information shows up in the cdrs(when you configure it to route wholesale)?


Thanks
Herlit11

Hi

The only differences between wholesale and any other kind of termination, is that fact that we don't answer the calls, because we have no need to provide audio. In some cases, the method of authentication is different, in as much as you may want to authenticate by IP and 5 digit or more prefix, which may require a bit of dialplan work.

So yes, the CDR will be fine.

Joe

Thank you for the data. I am starting the instalation this week. I may bother you again
if i find any problems.

Thanks,regards
Herlit11

hi Herlit11,

you can use wholesale on a2billing and authentificate by IP.

you mus configure sip config for your customer not Agi nither audio if you deed help on how to do contact me on MSN [email protected]

Regards

Hi Franmesa,
Thank you for your post.
Could you please share this info with us on how to configure A2B for wholesale and authenticate by ip address? it would be very userfull for us.

Thank you!

Hi Joe,
please share your experience with us . could you please birefly explain how to configure a2b for wholesale?

Thank you man!
Fernando

Hi

The subject has been covered ad nauseam on these forums by those far better qualified than me

Joe

Hello, everyone. I am still working on the wholesale setup.

I created a trunk in the Providers menu of the admin interface with the name 1133(same name as used in extensions.conf)

My extensions.conf looks like this

[a2billing]
; CallingCard application
;exten => _X.,1,Answer
;exten => _X.,2,Wait,2
exten => 1133,1,DeadAGI,a2billing.php
;exten => _X.,4,Wait,2
exten => _X.,2,Hangup

My sip.conf:

[1133]
eded
type=friend
regexten=1133
callerid="1133 pirip"
host=dynamic
context=a2billing
nat=yes
canreinvite=no
disallow=all
allow=gsm
allow=ulaw
allow=alaw
mailbox=1234@default,1233@default
;defaultip=10.0.0.5
username=1133
secret=guessit
fromuser=1133
outboundproxy=10.0.0.15

Does anybody know is a2billing.php makes the outgoing call?

When i dial 1133 from my xlite i get :

[Mar 11 09:35:30] WARNING[1981]: file.c:664 ast_openstream_full: File prepaid-enter-pin-number does not exist in any format
[Mar 11 09:35:30] WARNING[1981]: file.c:991 ast_streamfile: Unable to open prepaid-enter-pin-number (format 0x4 (ulaw)): No such file or directory
[Mar 11 09:35:30] WARNING[1981]: file.c:664 ast_openstream_full: File prepaid-invalid-digits does not exist in any format
[Mar 11 09:35:30] WARNING[1981]: file.c:664 ast_openstream_full: File prepaid-enter-pin-number does not exist in any format
[Mar 11 09:35:30] WARNING[1981]: file.c:991 ast_streamfile: Unable to open prepaid-enter-pin-number (format 0x4 (ulaw)): No such file or directory
[Mar 11 09:35:30] WARNING[1981]: file.c:664 ast_openstream_full: File prepaid-invalid-digits does not exist in any format
[Mar 11 09:35:30] WARNING[1981]: file.c:664 ast_openstream_full: File prepaid-enter-pin-number does not exist in any format
[Mar 11 09:35:30] WARNING[1981]: file.c:991 ast_streamfile: Unable to open prepaid-enter-pin-number (format 0x4 (ulaw)): No such file or directory

I see it´s complaining about pin numbers, but i can´t figure out just yet. Any ideas?
Thanks, regards
Herlit11

Hi

It's telling you the sound files are not in place, not that you need them for wholesale.


Joe

Hi, yes i just realized that. I have the sound files in var/lib/asterisk/sounds/en/

Do you know how can i get rid of the message?


Thanks
Herlit11

I found that the sounds files are configured in a2billing.conf

dir_store_audio = /var/lib/asterisk/sounds/a2billing

I looked and found all the files there, but i still get the error message.

Any ideas?
Thanks
Herlit11