[Aaug] SIP/IAX2 Provider

[Dustin Wildes]

I've used TelIAX for about 2.5 years now as my main only telco for my 
business.
They've always been responsive and reliable - and very good about 
alerting everyone about maintenance and outages.
They also give you 'beta' proxies to test their upcoming servers, so you 
can address and potential problems.

For playing around with outbound calling - go for the cheapest one, but 
for business-quality uptime, go for reliability - don't get caught up 
with a $.01/min versus $.02/min provider.  Even at 1000 minutes - that's 
only $10 and having your phones down sure does mean more than $10 to me 
in the end.  ;-)

Anyway - my $.02 cents...


Dustin Wildes
VecSector, LLC


Anthony Cosgrove wrote:
> There is also voicepulse connect $11/mo for one DID that comes with 4 
> channels in and 4 channels out. http://connect.voicepulse.com - they 
> are BYOD and LD rates can be .01 once you verify your account.
>
> Anthony
> Itaki Networks
>
> Brian Whigham wrote:
>
>>> Are there any providers that are good that will allow
>>>
>>>> me to use either an ATA or Asterisk?  Then that line would be my real-
>>>> world line for the PBX.
>>>
>>
>> Chris,
>>
>> That's the idea behind protocols.  Asterisk speaks several, including
>> MGCP, H.323, SIP, IAX, & IAX2.  If the provider speaks that protocol,
>> you can connect Asterisk directly to it.  There are ATAs that speak IAX2
>> or SIP (probably requiring a firmware change).
>>
>> And, as you found, you may have a different provider for outbound calls
>> vs. inbound calls.  Look for DID to find a direct-inward-dial provider.
>> You'll find a local phone number for as little as $2.92/mo.  The lowest
>> price I've found is SIPphone.com (aka Gizmo Project).  Conveniently,
>> I've also found them to be one of the most reliable and cheapest
>> termination providers.  They're $0.01/min. outbound.  Inbound minutes
>> are free.  Since I use my cell phone most of the time, I'd only get my
>> money's worth out of Packet8 if I used 1,709 minutes/mo.  I've been
>> using my pre-paid $10 to Gizmo for months now.  I use other providers in
>> case of failure. I've found Voxee and voipjet to be cheap.  But, voipjet
>> recently did something with requiring volume.  And Voxee has been
>> unreliable for me.  There are also some free DID providers, though voice
>> quality hasn't impressed me with them.  Look for < 50ms latency to the
>> provider to avoid excessive delay.
>>
>> Down the road, you might also be interested in having several incoming
>> numbers and termination providers.  There's a functionality called
>> least-cost-routing (LCR) which looks up the destination and chooses the
>> cheapest provider dynamically.
>>
>> http://voip-info.org has a page with the cheapest ATAs, DIDs, and
>> termination providers.
>>
>> see how fun VOIP is?
>>
>> Brian
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