Does http://www.voicepulse.com/ work with *?
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, John Todd wrote: > At 3:20 PM -0500 8/20/03, Mike Ciholas wrote: > > > >Hi all, > > > >While pondering my choices for local dial tone service via a > >bunch of POTS lines or a T1, I began to wonder if perhaps there > >is another way. > > > >Are there VoIP dialtone providers? That is, could I use only my > >internet connection for voice calls and not have a separate > >T1/POTS bank for that? > > > >I guess I am imagining a company that gateways between the PTSN > >and the internet backbone. Calls come in and get VoIP'ed and > >sent to me as packets, perhaps IAX, perhaps something else? > > > >First question: Does such a thing exist? Where? > > Yes. > > http://www.iconnecthere.com/ > http://www.packet8.net/ > http://www.nufone.net/ > http://www.coloco.com/ (not obviously visible on the home page, but exists) > http://www.voicepulse.com/ > ...many others. Use your favorite search engine to look up SIP long > distance providers. Some of the above (notably NuFone and Coloco) > will provide IAX/IAX2 termination. > > >Second question: Does it work? How well? > > Works great. I haven't made a long distance call on my PSTN line in > months, and I spend pretty much all day on LD calls. > > >Third question: Would you want it? Why? > > Yes. Cheap, portable, failure-tolerant. Note that your phone > service suddenly becomes as (un)reliable as your Internet > connectivity, so ensure that you have those bases covered through the > "normal" methods such as multihoming, facility redundancy, MPLS, etc. > I would also suggest you have multiple outbound VoIP providers, with > automatic failover configured in your Asterisk server. This is > easily done. > > >Fourth question: How much $$$? > > As little as $.01 a minute anywhere in the US, and great > international rates, depending on providers. Remember you can get > multiple accounts, and send your calls to different providers based > on static tables of who you think is cheapest for that dial prefix. > > > To address your previous question of "is it ready for prime time" the > answer is: > > For basic features, absolutely. I have several customers whose > systems I have configured for their offices... and I haven't heard > from them in MONTHS. The systems have had 100% uptime, handling > calls from POTS and VoIP lines. > > For exotic features: maybe. There is a HUGE list of niggly little > features that everyone is in love with in their particular PBX. Some > of those features, Asterisk does exceedingly well, and others that > are less frequently used, it does not. However, this situation is no > different with Asterisk than with any other PBX system that you might > evaluate, so all things being equal I'd say Asterisk is a LOT better > than a proprietary solution since you can get under the hood yourself > and fix things that might need to be updated. > > JT > > > >-- > >Mike Ciholas (812) 476-2721 voice > >CIHOLAS Enterprises (812) 476-2881 fax > >2626 Kotter Ave, Unit D [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Evansville, IN 47715 http://www.ciholas.com > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users