VOIP termination works just fine to anywhere in the world. Reason why it doesn't work well in some cases is what is known as grey routes where VOIP termination is not legal and providers use limited internet connections.
A-Z market is vast and there are tons of providers and no single one that can provide you all very well. If you have high volume you can connect directly to Etisalat (few middle eastern countries) for example to terminate directly onto their network. This will be costly if you have to do with all providers and you won't benefit the great prices that grey routes provide. Finally, not all very routes are bad. In summary, you need an admin and a routing system that is full time checking and separating bad routes from good ones < something that might not even be worth it. All in all, you won't make money if you want to find perfect routes or Bell Canada will be cheaper. -Bruce On Nov 17, 2014 6:36 PM, "Jim Van Meggelen" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 (or is so hopelessly out of date it's barely useable).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 > > >
