[VoiceOps] Billing of Forwarded Calls

[Lee Riemer]

If you authenticate the invite, can't you use the username to bill?

Scott Berkman wrote:
>
> So how do most of you deal with billing of forwarded calls 
> (specifically where the calling number on the forwarded leg is using 
> the original calling number from the inbound leg) in a SIP environment 
> when the originally called number is not preserved in the new invite?  
> In this case there is no way to match the calling or called number to 
> a specific customer.
>
>  
>
> Do you bill by IP address or interface instead?  Do you somehow use a 
> system that correlates the forwarded leg to the original inbound leg?  
> I've come across this issue a few different times when trying to bill 
> off of SIP messaging logs, for instance radius off a SIP SBC or SQL 
> logs from SER.
>
>  
>
>                 Thanks,
>
>  
>
> -Scott
>
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