Hosted Services

What you need to start a calling card business quickly with minimum investment

* A SIP based 4 port FXO VOIP Gateway to collect the calls from local PSTN network, or a SIP based 4 port FXS VOIP Gateway to collect the calls when customer come to the place. Such gateways cost varies from US$250-$400 to US$800-1000 depends on the brand, ports and features;

* A NAT Router from any manufacturers or just a Win98/ME/2K/XP/2K3 computer with Internet Connection Sharing enabled to share the internet to one to many VOIP Gateways; the NAT Router cost about US$50-US$100, some brand name on the market are: LINKSYS, NETGEAR, DLINK and SMC;

* Apply an ISDN, ADSL or Cable Modem high speed internet access from local ISP with minimum upload/download stream at 128kbit/s, the cost varied in different countries with different options;

* Get Calling Card Hosting service from us with only US$199/month for maximum 16 channels, we will support you for anything you need to launch your business in days.

Topology of the Calling Card Application through our hosting service

* FXO Gateway - Provide PSTN Access number for users to call in and make calls through IVR

* FXS Gateway - Make calls through IVR by just picking up the phone set connected to the FXS adaptor or gateway

Typical Calling Card Call flow for authorization and processing

* Customer dial the calling card access number, the call request was sent to the FXO line through PSTN network;( for FXO Gateway system); Or Customer go to the call place and pick up the phone which is connected to the FXS line;(for FXS Gateway system);

* Through the preset hotline configuration, the FXO/FXS Gateway will forward this call request to the hosting calling card system immediately;

* Hosting Calling Card system will recognize this call request and answer the call to connect the customer to calling card IVR menu;

* Hosting Calling Card system will Play "Please enter your account number";

* Customer enter his card number, Hosting Calling Card system will verify this number with its database;

* When the card number go through the authorization, Hosting Calling Card system will Play back the card balance with "Your have xxx dollars and yyy cents in this account, please enter your destination number following by the # key";

* Customer enter the destination number, Hosting Calling Card system will check the rate of this destination and calculate the maximum allowed talking time for this call, then Play "Your current balance will allow you to talk for xxx hours and yyy minutes";

* Hosting Calling Card system will route this call to the destination number, customer will hear the ring back tone then start conversation when another party pick up the call;

* When the talk duration is one minute less than the maximum allowed time, Hosting Calling Card system will play "You have 60 seconds left in this call" to remind the customer;

* During the call conversation, customer can press "*" to end current call session immediately and following by the voice prompt to make another phone call;

* When a call is finished, the Call Detail Record was saved in the database and show up on the web page, the customer will get voice prompt for current card balance and was allowed to make another phone call;


Flexible and Versatile SIP based Calling Card platform

* Working as a standard RFC3261 SIP Proxy/Registrar Server to access any SIP Calls coming from SIP endpoints, the supported SIP Clients include SIP Digital Trunk Gateway(like Cisco/Quintum), SIP FXS/FXO Gateways, SIP ATA Adaptors, SIP Softphone (like X-Ten) or SIP Webphone etc.

* Full NAT Traversal support - 100% works for SIP Clients with private IP address that behind NAT firewall/router

* Wide codec support - including G.729, G.723.1, ULaw, ALaw, ILBC and GSM

* Distributing calls with great flexibility - able to send calls to any A-Z termination gateway with SIP direct IP call or SIP Digest authentication call

* Support real-time termination backup and redundancy to get best call ASR - auto fall down to secondary termination if the primary termination is down


Intuitive and feature rich web based VOIP Calling Card management system

* Supporting Card expiring day, Service fee, Makeup, Connection fee etc.

* Generating thousands of cards from the intuitive web interface in seconds

* Able to manage cards easily including: generate specified cards, recharge cards, delete cards, unlock cards and list in use cards etc.

* Real-Time call status, CDR and daily call summary for operators, real-time web CDR for calling card customers

* Multiple level of voice prompt announcement for card balance, cost and maximum duration for a call, and the one minute remaining voice notifying

* Voice prompts customization is available upon request

Price information for hosting system

Calling Card platform hosting fee US$199/month

Includes:

* 16 SIP Channels for maximum 16 simultaneously calls

* Free Daily database backup, Free technical advise and support

* Unlimited VOIP Traffic Minutes and VOIP bandwidths

* Full NAT traversal supports, Working with ISP which blocks VOIP ports

* Delivering hosting service in 24 hours upon receiving the payment