CIL Interface

The call accounting system is used for several purposes. One purpose is to collect information about external calls from the MX-ONE Service Node. This allows, for example, the hotel, conference center, and so on, to charge guests according to their telephone bills, and also to transmit data about extension status to the FOS/PMS. This is used by the reception staff at room check-out.

The CIL data can be sent through the network port of a local Network Interface Card (NIC) to a remote application with an established TCP/IP connection.

Using TCP/IP the CIL data can be logged to either an SQL database or to a file on a server. It can then be handled by some post-processing application.

The CIL interface is shown below

The CIL format used with Connected Guests (iCharge) is CIL format ASB 501 standard (format 2) according to the following example:

callinfo_output_set -output 0 -lim 1 -type tcp -subtype asb501 -server 192.168.104.13-port 12000 -format "" -eol NL -record