[148454] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OSS Systems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Shahab Vahabzadeh)
Sun Jan 15 16:27:18 2012
In-Reply-To: <6E5615AD-CD76-4599-8164-2B6B41687751@ukbroadband.com>
From: Shahab Vahabzadeh <sh.vahabzadeh@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:56:02 +0330
To: Leigh Porter <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Hi there again,
I think Leigh is not available this week, anybody else idea about such a
system?
Which loadbalancer is good to use? LVS or hardware one? or radius as a
proxy?
How database must be placed? How radius servers talk to DB?
And which radius server you suggest? Radiator?
Thanks
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 1:45 AM, Leigh Porter
<leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com>wrote:
>
>
> On 5 Jan 2012, at 22:02, "Shahab Vahabzadeh" <sh.vahabzadeh@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi there,
> > Has anybody experience about running and OSS System in enterprise level?
> > And do you have any idea about it?
> > For example for an ISP who is running users more than 20K or 30K, there
> > must be some good solutions to integrate all systems like:
> > Radius, Billing Systems and CRM
> > For example after searching and asking friends I have some ideas about
> > Radius to use: radiator
> > Is there anybody who has analyse such a systems before in his ISP? Need
> > sharing here :)
> > Thanks
>
> We did this a few years ago and ended up writing the while thing
> ourselves. This included billing, subscriber management etc etc.
>
> We integrates to salesforce.com for the internal front end and the user
> facing stuff we did ourselves.
>
> It was a big project and took a team of six about six months. But we ended
> up with a perfect solution that did exactly what we needed and it was
> pretty good.
>
> It handled within the order of users you mention, but we designed to 100k
> users.
>
> We used radiator (highly recommended) with openldap back end. Multiple
> load balanced servers etc etc.
>
> The worst thing we did was to build our own mail system. Not that it was
> an issue, it never went wrong, but these days I'd just send people to gmail
> or something.
>
> --
> Leigh Porter
>
>
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Regards,
Shahab Vahabzadeh, Network Engineer and System Administrator
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