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System Concepts Follow-me vs. redirect number What is the difference between the follow-me and “redirect number” properties of an account? Both seem to serve a similar purpose. However, redirect numbers, which appeared quite some time ago, had several drawbacks: • Different gateways/applications had different kinds of support for this feature. For instance, the default Cisco debit card application did not support this feature at all. • Using only a single phone number as a parameter did not allow flexible services. For this reason, a new, flexible, robust solution was required, and so the follow-me feature was implemented in PortaSwitch. The redirect number feature is now obsolete, and information in the redirect number field is no longer used by PortaSwitch. PortaBilling still returns the value of the redirect number in the h323-redirect-number RADIUS attribute for backward compatibility, so it can still be used by some external applications, e.g. TCL script on Cisco gateway. Online web signup PortaBilling allows you to automate the process of subscribing new customers to the service, so that customers can do everything necessary online without requiring any assistance from your administrator. A template-based API for online signup allows you to customize page layout and put a web signup front-end on multiple websites (web portals, web pages of your resellers or affiliates, etc.). The following diagram illustrates the online web signup process: 1 <html> Reseller's webmaster Example page for signup Online payment processor Registration failed 2 Signup page Reseller's web 3 server 4 5 Registration successful Prospective customer :-) PB Signup server Validation module Provisioning database 6 Online signup module 7 8 © 2000-2006 PortaOne, Inc. All rights Reserved. www.portaone.com 69
