| February 7, 2008
Using Authentication for Accounting
Some of our buyers wish to use Route5060 to help them generate CDR records for their clients. To simplify authentication and allow subaccount authentication, we have broken out the options like so:
- By IP Address Only
This is now the default. You simply put in the IP address you will be coming from and it will authenticate you. A prefix is no longer required in this option. This may simplify setting up new endpoints.
- IP Address + Prefix
This uses a combination of IP Address + a 7 digit prefix as shown on the screen. The new feature lets you "Request New Prefix". Where this is useful is when you have multiple sub-accounts coming from the same IP. This will allow you to create unlimited origination endpoints with the same IP, just a different prefix.
How is this useful? For your billing! You can simply download CDR records filtered by Origination Endpoint, adjust the rate and amount with your rate and amount and presto you got an invoice.
- Prefix Only
This option is NOT advised! You can use this to authenticate based only on prefix, but it is highly insecure as anyone who gets access to your SIP dialog can use your prefix regardless of their IP address. This may be useful if you are testing from several development machines and don't want to enter all of the source IP addresses in. Again avoid this for production.
Call Came from Where?
Some of our buyers prefer to have the peace of mind that the from ANI is always set from a specific number regardless of what they send over. Call centers for example may want a special 800 number attached to all outbound calls. You can now specify an ANI override on the Origination Setup Screen. If it is a US number use 10 digits (without the 1) as in 8005551111.
Keep in mind that ANI override is optional and does not affect you unless you specify you want an override.
Thanks to all for thier helpful suggestions and ideas.
Route on!
David Thompson
Route5060, Inc.
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