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Billion Softswitch

Technical description The following operating systems are supported: Microsoft Windows Linux FreeBSD Solaris 10

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Technical description

Main features:

• SIP/H323 calls routing,
• Subscribers registration by SIP Registrar and RAS,
• Call authorization,
• Call data record (CDR) list maintenance,
• Embedded billing system,
• Interface to external billing system,
• NAT/Firewall support,
• Reports generation.

Advantages:

• Easy installation and maintenance,
• Various operating system support (Microsoft Windows, Linux, Solaris),
• Scalability due to clustering technology,
• Administrative web-interface,
• Log maintenatnce with different levels.

Being a part of Billion Operator product family, Billion Softswitch at the same time could be integrated with third-part software using open standard interfaces.

Billion Softswitch comes in two editions: Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition. The following table contains functional differences between these editions.

Feature	Standard Edition	Enterprise Edition
Calls routing:
H.323 support
SIP support
SIP/H.323 conversion
Ability to work with or without media-proxying
Ability to restrict the range of ports used for connections
Using wild characters in route description
Avoiding broken routes
LCR-routing (with embedded billing)
Interface to external router (using RADIUS protocol)
Ability to restrict number of concurrent calls per route
Ability to change dialed number (working with tech-prefixes)
Flexible route parameters management (including fast start and H245 tunneling)
Viewing active calls with ability to interrupt
Working with gateways that do not support standard ports (1719 for RAS and 1720 for H.323 signalling, 5060 for SIP)
Subscribers registration:
Subscribers registration using RAS (gatekeeper)
Subscribers registration using SIP Registrar
Viewing status of registered subscribers
Subscribers registration on upper servers (transparent registration)
Self-registration on upper servers
Calls authorization:
Embedded authorization management by ip-address, username, PIN-code
Interface to external billing system using RADIUS protocol
Q.931 return management
Ability to restrict number of concurrent calls per originator
CDR:
Regular CDR-file generation
Informative call data records (tens of fields)
Unsuccessful calls have been written to CDR (including route hunting information)
Reports generation based on CDR-files
Embedded crash-recovery mechanism for cases of hardware failure
Embeded billing:
Customer list management with current balances
Tariff plan list management
Tariff plans for sale and buy
Balance control at call authorizing (prepaid)
Interface to external billing system:
Authorization using RADIUS protocol
Regular communcation with billing during call proceeding using RADIUS
Ability to build a prepaid-system with external billing
Flexible authorizing parameters customizing (ip-address, username, PIN-code)
NAT/Firewall:
UDP hole punch
STUN-client
Session Border Controller functions
IVR:
Open XML-based IVR script language
Popular IVR-script included
Autoinformator and autoresponder functions
Number spelling (for english and russian)
T.38 support:
RTP
UDP
T.120 support
Working with gateways having different codecs sets
Management:
Administrative web-interface
Remote configuration
Status control

Hardware requirements

* to achieve maximum productivity for more than 256 concurrent with full proxying it is recommened to use 1Gb Ethernet NIC.

You can download free unregistered copy of Billion Softswitch:

• for Microsoft Windows
• for Linux
• for FreeBSD
• for Solaris 10