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Progress notes for MKB CDR/database development

 
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12th December 2003
Steve has finished the CDR generator software and has been testing all week at Cape House. He is happy that the software does all it should.

Simon has reportted having problems implementing the TCP/IP and streams part of his development. Steve has sent sample code to help, and Simon has downloaded sample code from the internet to help him.

 

15th December 2003
Hardware delivery takes place to Simon in Loughborough. The hardware is installed and setup but, without a long enough LAN cable, the systems cannot be connected immediately. Integration will take place later in the afternoon or tomorrow.

 

16th December 2003
Integration work was due to begin today, but Simon is having trouble with the TCP/IP part of his software. Steve has stayed at home today until these problems are resolved.

 

17th December 2003
Simon has resolved the TCP/IP problems and Steve visits Simon for a couple of hours in the afternoon. They discover a problem with Simons software whereby it fails at a level of 30 CDRs per second. With 3 CDRs being produced per call, this equates to 10cps generated by the Martinet.

Although this exceeds Simon’s design spec of an average of 12 CDRs per second over a 24hr period, this does not allow for the “bursty” nature of telecoms traffic, and this 30 CDRs per second limit may cause problems in reality. It has been concluded that the limitation is software-based, because the computer’s CPU utilisation was only 20% at this level.

Simon has said that he has received some advice from Steve, and will “clean up” his code. No further information is available at this time as to the next stage of the development.

It has been stressed to Simon that he can keep the hardware over the Christmas period, and he has said that he will continue development in the new year. He is not sure, however how to boot the Martinet up, so Steve will have to explain this before any testing takes place.

 
18th December 2003
Simon sent through a URL for a company that supplies software to post process CDRs over IP. He suggested that this would be of use to us as a basis for our user interface.


19th December 2003
Bob has forwarded an email from Emerick talking about work in Greece setting up a monitoring system. There is a possibility of funding for development, so it could be worthwhile to follow up.

Steve has sent Simon instructions on using the traffic generation software. Pat to follow up with a copy of the user guide.

Simnon thinks that the limitation in the performance of his application lies with the windows sockets recv() function. He will attempt to compile the code using the Borland tools rather than Microsoft.

Simon has also been supplied with a document template which he may use to compile his notes for the project. Pat has suggested that he simply writes the notes in generic form and they can be formatted by Prosser Telecom.