[Aaug] SIP/IAX2 Provider

[Christopher Fowler]

Since I've got the FXO board and I do have the phone line I think that I
am going to install that as a trunk too.  I believe I can make Asterisk
fail over to that line if my main VOIP trunk (now is voipjet) goes down.

I'm going to install another one at a friend's house (Louie) tonight.  I
told him that all his extension should start at 300 and mine at 200.  I
think I can create a link between the two PBX systems so that if I dial
300 then his phone rings.  He dials 200 then mine rings.  I've got a
group setup so that ext 2 is all my phones.  3 will be all his.

No I plan to set him up a voipjet trunk to play with as well.  What
would be really cool is if my voipjet trunk failed but his was up then
all my outbounds would go via the Internet to hisp lace about 5m away
and then out his voip trunk.  We're are just playing around to try and
learn it.

I ordered a Sipura SPA-2000 ATA off eBay.  If iy works well when I get
this PBX installed in our data center then I may be ordering many more
and distribute them among our sales reps.  I just need to get inbound
DID taken care of and IVR since we have no receptionist.  We do use a
company that handles all our phone needs including a receptionist and we
could do a little bit better if I install some of this technology.  They
use Meridian Mail and I _hate_ Meridian Mail.
 



On Sat, 2007-02-03 at 11:50 -0500, Dustin Wildes wrote:
> 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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