Thanks for the feed back, but the rates are more or less predetermined. AT&T rates would be $.0007 per minute for local calls. The operation would be providing local phones wired to houses with copper pairs.
What I am looking for is the "best" ways to handle those lines when brought to a local "switch" site. The actual "switch" might not be there but back hauled, might be a TDM switch, a concentrator (TNT, etc) "10" ganged Asterisk systems, or "tin can and string". I see some talking about TNTs in this forum. Those are 672 lines or in some versions double that, what is used behind them to do the processing, etc. Cary Fitch -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of David Backeberg Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 9:29 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Big time system On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 11:24 PM, Cary Fitch <ca...@usawide.net> wrote: > But, we have an opportunity to get into a big time telecom activity. > > It would have 2000 to 30,000 user lines per city, and we would like to have > those brought back to a central location for control and because transport > can be more economical than remote site rentals, maintenance and personnel. I would say you need to make an RFP process to first negotiate your calling rate extremely low with the major vendors of the country where you're operating. If this is US, you're talking Qwest, AT&T, Verizon, and the ilk, and you negotiate an extremely low minute rate in return for giving them a guaranteed minimum revenue. And while you're at it, you ask them how they suggest you design the architecture over their national network. -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
