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FreeSWITCH 1.0.6

You're reading from  FreeSWITCH 1.0.6

Product type Book
Published in Jul 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781847199966
Pages 320 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

FreeSWITCH 1.0.6
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
Preface
1. Architecture of FreeSWITCH 2. Building and Installation 3. Test Driving the Default Configuration 4. SIP and the User Directory 5. Understanding the XML Dialplan 6. Using the Built-in XML IVR Engine 7. Building IVR Applications with Lua 8. Advanced Dialplan Concepts 9. Controlling FreeSWITCH Externally 10. Advanced Features and Further Reading The FreeSWITCH Online Community The History Of FreeSWITCH
Index

Nibblebill


mod_nibblebill is a credit/debit module for FreeSWITCH. The module was initially written by Darren Schreiber to fill the gaps of a professional grade trunking system that lacked the ability to detect fraud real-time. Its purpose is to allow real-time debiting of credit or cash from a database while calls are in progress. Darren had the following goals:

  • Debit credit/cash from accounts real-time

  • Allow for billing at different rates during a single call

  • Allow for warning callers when their balance is low (via audio, in-channel)

  • Allow for disconnecting or re-routing calls when balance is depleted

  • Allow billing functions listed above to operate with multiple concurrent calls

Use cases

mod_nibblebill can be used in a variety of use cases, some of which are listed below.

Billing (pre-pay)

You can allow people to put cash into an account and "nibble" away at it. In addition, when callers have almost depleted their account, a tone or other message can play (or another action can occur...

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