On Dec 12, 2008, at 7:10 PM, Michael wrote: > Is there any good free / accurate online resources with detailed > country > numbering plans? Failing that let's get something running ourselves. [snip]
I'll avoid the good discussion on this thread that has been made already to date. The answer is: "It's not simple." I wish it was, but that data is typically in the hands of companies who do NOT want to share it, because errors on your part make money on their part, and those companies don't really want to see you exist at all in the first place. It would be great if this could be a shared resource of some sort, but I don't expect that we'll ever see that with E.164 numbering - the entrenched interests in that number space have zero interest in making the data available for many political, technical, and fiscal reasons. In the past, I've received a full breakdown of rates from my carriers for North America, as I have typically purchased directly from North American carriers who give me a 5, 6, or 7 tier model of prices across the country. LNP has confused the issue a bit, but not enough to warrant dips into the LNP database to determine if mobile numbers are being delivered on landline, or vice versa. For most of the world not in country code 1, I typically get just two rates: landline and mobile. In some very large nations, mobile may be broken down into a few carriers, but not often. Carriers almost always will NOT give out number ranges for what is mobile versus what is landline. They just say "Mobile: $V.WXYZ Landline: $A.BCDE" and leave it to me to figure out what is what. This, of course, is disingenuous - obviously they know what is mobile and what is landline, since they need it for their own billing purposes. But they would NEVER try to help out a customer like that, since it makes the customer more informed and less likely to just swallow an incorrect billing. So in a recent job (not Digium) I had to get the Telcordia GDDS database. Cost varies depending on what kind of use you have, but I seem to recall ranging from $20k per year to $Absurd per year. It was useful - recall that mobile rates can be 10x or even 20x what landline rates are, so billing your customers in the same bracket as you are billed by your vendors becomes startlingly important when you hit the millions of minutes per month mark in international termination. http://www.telcordia.com/products_services/trainfo/catalog_details.html http://www.trainfo.com/products_services/tra/downloads/gdds.pdf Then, you'll need to create a database that tracks what each one of your vendors gives you for mappings, create a linkage between their terminology or number formats to the GDDS database, and extract to create a routing table. Non-trivial, but not super-difficult. Get a big machine with gobs of RAM and store all of your databases in cache. The US I seem to recall had (for each carrier) something like 420,000 rows in one configuration. Multiply by the number of carriers you are using, add in the 60,000 or so rows for international per carrier... it gets to be a pretty plump routing table. "You must be _this_ tall to ride this wholesale ride." We created an external Java app that would take the origin number out of our Asterisk arrays and then do a database lookup. Total delay between receipt of the INVITE and the INVITE being out to the "best" vendor was around .3 seconds, so not bad. But there is a reason that there are whole companies doing routing and rating engines. JT --- John Todd email:jt...@digium.com Digium, Inc. | Asterisk Open Source Community Director 445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville AL 35806 - USA direct: +1-256-428-6083 http://www.digium.com/ _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
