Freeswitch in a Commercial Freeswitch in a Commercial Carrier EnviornmentCarrier Enviornment
Cluecon August 2009
Arnie Goodstein - CEO
BackgroundBackgroundWCGS is a Hosted switch services Company that offers specializedswitching solutions for wholesale Telecommunications Carriers and Prepaid Calling card Companies
WE currently switch in excess of 300 Million minutes per month for our customers
Most of our switching has traditionally been TDM switching, but as weAll know, the world has gone VOIP and so has WCGS
Over the past 5 years our network has changed from 80 percent TDMTo 80 percent VOIP
Industry wide transition to VOIPIndustry wide transition to VOIPSales of TDM EQUIPMENT 2006 - 2013
Source: IDC 2008
The Quest to find a Voip SwitchThe Quest to find a Voip Switch
Requirements we had for a switch
•Flexibility•Scalability•Carrier Grade •Cost effective•Ability to easily Merge with our billing system •Ability to function as an SBC•Ability to provide Class 4 Carrier services•Ability to provide Class 5 Carrier services
Commercial Solution or Commercial Solution or Open Source ? Open Source ?
•Believe it or not, we actually considered a number of Commercial solutions .
•After going through the pros and Cons of each solution we decidedto go Open Source and decided on Freeswitch.
•When we considered the commercial alternatives we found the following CONS:
Higher initial Cost to implement.Less Flexibility.In some cases closed or partially closed architecture.High support Cost.Pay by the feature mentality. Lack of ability to meet all of our needs which are constantlychanging.
Commercial Solutions or Open Commercial Solutions or Open Source ?Source ?
Open Source Pro’s
•Obviously Cost, however deploying and Maintaining open Source isnot Free.
•Ability to mold a system into anything you want it to be.
•In our case, we have integrated Freeswitch with our own custom LCR Logic which provides for quality based LCR and gives us the ability to do percentage based routing.
•We have also completely integrated Freeswitch and the Bat 1000 billing system to provide carrier billing, automated shutdown based upon prepaid balances , carrier reconciliation and rate management.
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All Freeswitch Boxes are 8 core 3 Gig Xenon with with 8 Gig of RamEquipped with Dual Power Supply and DRAC Cards
Bat 1000 Billing
TSS 4000 – Freeswitch CALL MONITOR
TSS 4000 – Freeswitch GATEWAY STATS
TSS 4000 – Freeswitch CUSTOMER STATS Data by Customer
CREATING CUSTOMERSCREATING CUSTOMERS
CUSTOMERS CUSTOMER(SITE)CUSTOMERS CUSTOMER(SITE)
OUTBOUND CARRIERSOUTBOUND CARRIERS
ACCESS LIST CONTROLACCESS LIST CONTROL
SWITCH IP PROFILESWITCH IP PROFILE
CUSTOMER IP PROFILE CUSTOMER IP PROFILE
Percentage RoutingPercentage Routing
Routing Schedule StatsRouting Schedule Stats
Bat 1000 Billing integration with Freeswitch
Rate LoadingRate Loading
Carrier Auto ShutdownCarrier Auto Shutdown
Bat 1000 – Freeswitch Detailed Bat 1000 – Freeswitch Detailed Carrier BillingCarrier Billing
Bat 1000 Freeswitch - P/L
Bat 1000 - Freeswitch Carrier Reconciliation
SummarySummary•Freeswitch is not only suitable, but is ideal for a carrier environment.
•It Provides complete flexibility in implementation and functionality.
•Can be configured in a standalone system which is highly reliable orcan be run in a cluster environment which provides additional Redundancy and scalability.
•Can easily be integrated with any billing system.
•World Class software support, better than most traditional companies.
•Will allow you to meet your future needs in a rapidlyevolving and ever changing industry.
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