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VoIP Switch - VoIP Comes of Age in the Enterprise
Traditional phone lines might have their place in a highly connected society, but the truth of the matter is, to stay afloat in a competitive business landscape, one needs a bit more than a plain old telephone system (POTS).
Intro to Basic System Features
Accounts Overview
An account is a logical entity usually representing some logical or physical end point in the VoIP network.
Customers
Customers are logical entities in the system for which invoices will be generated. They may be termination partners, resellers of a service, or a virtual .
Tariffs and Rates
Tariff is logical entity in the system, which
represents rules for rating and billing calls made by Account or Customer to which this Tariff has been assigned.
Balance and Credit Limit
In addition to Tariff, each Customer or Account, except Root Customer, has those two basic rating/billing parameters associated with it – Balance and Credit Limit.
Intro to Advanced System Features
On-Net Routing
On-Net Routing is the feature that allows placing calls from one account in the system to another account in the system.
Ability to Charging On-Net (Account-to-Account) Calls
In some cases it might be necessary to charge either caller or callee or both for the on-net call based on per-minute rate.
Automatic Database Backup
The Softswitch includes the system which allows performing automatic backup of the database periodically.
Ability to Get exchange rate using external script
Exchange rates can be set using external custom script.