I don't have any direct experience with this, so I'm just adding my own questions and thoughts to this thread.
I would expect that there are a lot more variables in play that we aren't used to dealing with when terminating to US/EU (let's call them G8 to save on typing) destinations (over and above the capabilities of the VoIP provider). - Latency to that part of the world is going to include a propagation delay that cannot be completely mitigated until some way to send data at faster than light speed is found. Halfway around the world works out to something like 80ms, if memory serves correctly. Even a dedicated strand of fibre between you and wherever would have this delay. - Are you terminating to more cellular connections? This adds all sorts of impairments, from latency, to transcoding loss, to radio signal quality, to who knows what else. In some places land line PSTN has never been deployed (or is so hopelessly out of date it's barely useable). - Some PSTN connections simply suck, so even with the very best VoIP infrastructure, you still have to terminate to a PSTN that might have all sorts of old crap hampering things, especially in the last mile. - The number of network hops between you and the termination point are almost certain to be much higher than to a G8 destination, and also are far more likely to traverse multiple backbone providers. Naturally, this means more bottlenecks of all sorts. Can you control the network between you and the termination? Can the termination provider? Even if you were to deploy your own termination equipment, with a carefully engineered network between here and there, could you be sure of a consistent improvement? You might be barking up the wrong tree, is what's running through my head. On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 4:43 PM, Mike - QTI <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking to see if any one has any good A-Z providers with quality > connections into either Asia or the Middle East we are always struggling > with the call quality in these regions. > > Any input would be appreciated. > > Mike > > Mike Ashton > CTO > Quality Track International > > Phone: +1 647.724.3500 x251 > Cell: +1 416.527.4995 >
