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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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.