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Freeswitch in a Commercial Carrier Enviornment

Freeswitch in a Commercial Carrier Enviornment . Cluecon August 2009. Arnie Goodstein - CEO. WCGS is a Hosted switch services Company that offers specialized switching solutions for wholesale Telecommunications Carriers and Prepaid Calling card Companies

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Freeswitch in a Commercial Carrier Enviornment

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  1. Freeswitch in a Commercial Carrier Enviornment Cluecon August 2009 Arnie Goodstein - CEO

  2. WCGS is a Hosted switch services Company that offers specialized • switching 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 we • All know, the world has gone VOIP and so has WCGS • Over the past 5 years our network has changed from 80 percent TDM • To 80 percent VOIP Background

  3. Sales of TDM EQUIPMENT 2006 - 2013 Industry wide transition to VOIP Source: IDC 2008

  4. 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 The Quest to find a Voip Switch

  5. Believe it or not, we actually considered a number of • Commercial solutions . • After going through the pros and Cons of each solution we decided • to 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 constantly • changing. Commercial Solution or Open Source ?

  6. Open Source Pro’s • Obviously Cost, however deploying and Maintaining open Source is • not 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. Commercial Solutions or Open Source ?

  7. Bat 1000 Billing Ser Proxy GiG ethernet switches Freeswitch All Freeswitch Boxes are 8 core 3 Gig Xenon with with 8 Gig of Ram Equipped with Dual Power Supply and DRAC Cards Redundant Hardware

  8. TSS 4000 – Freeswitch CALL MONITOR

  9. TSS 4000 – Freeswitch GATEWAY STATS

  10. TSS 4000 – Freeswitch CUSTOMER STATS Data by Customer

  11. CREATING CUSTOMERS

  12. CUSTOMERS CUSTOMER(SITE)

  13. OUTBOUND CARRIERS

  14. ACCESS LIST CONTROL

  15. SWITCH IP PROFILE

  16. CUSTOMER IP PROFILE

  17. Percentage Routing

  18. Routing Schedule Stats

  19. Bat 1000 Billing integration with Freeswitch

  20. Rate Loading

  21. Carrier Auto Shutdown

  22. Bat 1000 – Freeswitch Detailed Carrier Billing

  23. Bat 1000 Freeswitch - P/L

  24. Bat 1000 - Freeswitch Carrier Reconciliation

  25. 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 or • can 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 rapidly • evolving and ever changing industry. Summary

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