Freeswitch%20in%20a%20Commercial%20Carrier%20Enviornment

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Freeswitch in a Commercial Carrier Enviornment

• Cluecon August 2009

Arnie Goodstein - CEO
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Background

• 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

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Industry wide transition to VOIP
Sales of TDM EQUIPMENT 2006 - 2013
Source IDC 2008
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The 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

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Commercial Solution or 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 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.

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Commercial Solutions or Open Source ?

• Open Source Pros
• 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.

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Redundant Hardware
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
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• TSS 4000 Freeswitch CALL MONITOR

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• TSS 4000 Freeswitch GATEWAY STATS

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• TSS 4000 Freeswitch CUSTOMER STATS
• Data by Customer

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CREATING CUSTOMERS
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CUSTOMERS CUSTOMER(SITE)
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OUTBOUND CARRIERS
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ACCESS LIST CONTROL
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SWITCH IP PROFILE
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CUSTOMER IP PROFILE
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Percentage Routing
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Routing Schedule Stats
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• Bat 1000 Billing integration with Freeswitch

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Rate Loading
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Carrier Auto Shutdown
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Bat 1000 Freeswitch Detailed Carrier Billing
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• Bat 1000 Freeswitch - P/L

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• Bat 1000 - Freeswitch Carrier Reconciliation

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Summary

• 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.