[Spce-user] sip:provider CE v2.8 released

Wed Apr 3 07:50:31 EDT 2013

Hi Skyler

Thanks for the welcome.

I actually have spce in production, but only for consumers, i.e. 
individual home users.
This is still early days and a very basic setup.
I still need to learn it.

What I currently use for Commercial Market is a freeswitch Class 5 
Switch as well as the same setup as my SBC/Carrier Switch to my Providers.
The reason I have the Freeswitch C5 switch in the SBC/Carrier slot is 
because it can do Provider Billing amongst other useful things.
The other main reason why I terminate commercial customers on it is 
because I can generate on system invoices, i.e. CDRs are attached to the 
invoice. It is also generated automatically based on a weekly, monthly, 
quarterly, annually term.

I would prefer to have one distributed platform/system as it makes 
support and maintenance much easier.

I really love the SPCE all in one solution with the flexibility it 
brings, but still need to do a lot of testing, learning before I can 
ever think of only having it as the preferred platform/system.

I'll be upgrading to the current version and then take it from there.
It would still be great if the dev team could look into a feature to 
generate invoices from within spce.

Kind Regards

Deon

> Skyler <mailto:skchopperguy at gmail.com>
> April 2, 2013 12:53 AM
> Hi Deon,
>
>  Congrats on yer move from 'lurker' to 'poster', hehe. Welcome to the 
> list ;)
>
> On 4/1/2013 1:28 PM, Deon Vermeulen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been watching/monitoring SPCE for quite some time now and am 
>> very excited the progress and ground this development has made/cover 
>> over the past 2 years to reach this new release.
>>
>
>  Do you not use spce in a production capacity yet?
>
>> The source billing feature is exactly what I've been looking for, but 
>> the only single feature at the moment keeping me from replacing my 
>> current switching environment with SPCE is that SPCE doesn't give one 
>> the option to manually/automatically generate an invoice for prepaid 
>> Customers and/or Providers.
>>
>> I really feel that the sipwise team should look into this for the 
>> next release as normally prepaid customers and providers are those 
>> that require an invoice for TAX purposes.
>>
>> One could argue that an invoice can be generated of the system, but 
>> the manual "Off-System" process would become and admin nightmare if 
>> you have for argument sake 100 or more invoices to generate at month 
>> end or whatever the general billing cycle is set to.
>>
>
>   Ya, you'll need a 3rd party app or build yer own BUT everything is 
> there for 100% integration. Feel free to ask the list for suggestions, 
> everyone is quite helpful as you've probably noticed. There is a lot 
> of power given via the provisioning (SOAP/XMLRPC) so no reason why you 
> couldn't make this happen in the 3rd party billing.
>
>> I also can't get my head around is DID/Trunk Billing to customers who 
>> have their own in house PABX and SIP Trunk back to SPCE.
>>
>
>  Think of it this way:
>
> SIP TRUNK CUSTOMER = SUBSCRIBER (they pay you)
> PEER = UPSTREAM (you pay them)
>
> Create each sip trunk as a subscriber, put the PABX IP:PORT as a 
> trusted device, then add the DIDs for them as aliases. Calls to 
> aliases will be sent to the IP:PORT entered as the device. Lots of 
> help available, any time.
>
>
> Skyler
>
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> Deon Vermeulen <mailto:vermeulen.deon at gmail.com>
> April 1, 2013 10:28 PM
> Hi,
>
> I've been watching/monitoring SPCE for quite some time now and am very 
> excited the progress and ground this development has made/cover over 
> the past 2 years to reach this new release.
>
> The source billing feature is exactly what I've been looking for, but 
> the only single feature at the moment keeping me from replacing my 
> current switching environment with SPCE is that SPCE doesn't give one 
> the option to manually/automatically generate an invoice for prepaid 
> Customers and/or Providers.
>
> I really feel that the sipwise team should look into this for the next 
> release as normally prepaid customers and providers are those that 
> require an invoice for TAX purposes.
>
> One could argue that an invoice can be generated of the system, but 
> the manual "Off-System" process would become and admin nightmare if 
> you have for argument sake 100 or more invoices to generate at month 
> end or whatever the general billing cycle is set to.
>
> I also can't get my head around is DID/Trunk Billing to customers who 
> have their own in house PABX and SIP Trunk back to SPCE.
>
> Keep up the good work and congratulations with this release.
>
>
> Kind Regards
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> Andreas Granig <mailto:agranig at sipwise.com>
> March 29, 2013 5:36 PM
> Hi guys,
>
> I'm excited to announce the new SPCE v2.8. Please check the official 
> announcement at
>
>     http://www.sipwise.com/news/announcements/spce-v2_8-release/
>
> for a list of changes.
>
> This version will be our first LTS version, so we will keep 
> back-porting fixes and security updates to this version for the next 
> three years. If you want something rock-stable for the years to come, 
> you should go with that!
>
> After v2.8 we'll switch to v3.0 (due in ~3 months as always) with a 
> completely reworked web panel, and we'll switch to a REST interface 
> for 3rd party provisioning clients, and no more new features will be 
> exposed via the SOAP and XMLRPC (and we'll phase it out completely by 
> end of this year).
>
> I'd like to thank you all for your valuable feedback and discussions, 
> let's keep it going for the next v3.0 with some awesome changes ahead!
>
> Thank you,
> Andreas
>
> PS: Please let us know if there goes something wrong in your upgrade 
> or installation. It has been tested extensively via automated jobs and 
> also manually a lot of times, but if you find something nonetheless, 
> we'll be happy to fix it.
>
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