Asterisk2billing releases new version 1.4-RC1

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Recently received an email from a2billing regarding their new version.


Asterisk2Billing is proud to release the latest version of A2Billing
1.4-RC1 at http://www.asterisk2billing.org. We urge you to download and
install it and see all the new features which we hope in turn provide
benefits resulting in greater margins and profitability for all our
customers.

There are some excellent new features in the new version including the much
requested commission agent or reseller functionality, re-designed
invoicing, and a raft of other features, as well as efficiency savings made
to the underlying database, which will increase the scalability of
A2Billing. For more details see the changelog at :
http://www.asterisk2billing.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/browser/trunk/CHANGELOG

We have also slightly altered the direction of A2Billing to cater for the
increasing number of customers who are using A2Billing to provide VoIP
termination and origination such as DID resale to businesses using IP PBX
systems, as well as those offering wholesale termination. We have now
included better invoicing, company information, and a basic trouble ticket
tracker as well as making the system more user friendly for the staff that
have to manage your customers. Naturally, A2Billing is still a very
competent calling card platform.


We have also done a lot of integration work with Opensips (Openser) to
increase the scalability of the system, and OpenSIPS can now integrate
seamlessly with A2Billing to provide load balancing, NAT traversal and
failover, which is of particular relevance to those providing VoIP services
to the residential market.

We have put a guide to install A2Billing on either CentOS and Debian on the
Wiki at :

http://www.asterisk2billing.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/wiki/A2Billing-1-4-Installation-deb


We need as many eyes as possible to look at it so that this release can be
the best ever; and talking of best ever, Alberto Escudero-Pascual from
http://www.it46.se/ is writing the documentation right now, so we fully
expect that to be of the highest quality based on the work we have seen him
do in the past.

To coincide with the release of A2Billing 1.4 final release in a few weeks
time, after the beta testing and release candidate stages, we are launching
www.star2billing.com.

Star2Billing is the commercial arm of Asterisk2Billing, and has been
created to supply professional install, support and consultancy services to
A2Billing, which we hope will mean that any Telecoms Company can consider
the A2Billing Soft Switch alongside the traditional offerings for TDM and
VoIP switches.

There will be Distributor, Reseller and Agent schemes for Star2Billing yet
to be announced. During these credit crunch times, Commercial Open Source
Telephony has become a very popular option amongst companies according to a
recent Eastern Management Group Report.

For now, we hope that you will download the Beta version of A2Billing 1.4,
test it and comment on it, so that when we release the final version it
will be of the highest possible commercial quality.



Yours truly,
Areski and the A2Billing Team