Hi Jared,
I must have confused reading the ITSP's specs about calls in US48 and
Canada being outbound, not incoming. What you say makes absolute
sense; if i have a NXX-NXX-XXXX phone number that takes incoming
phone calls and my ITSP is connected to the PSTN network, then i can
get phone calls from anywhere on the planet. I don't need incoming
phone numbers in other countries, but i see that i can do that if the
need arises.
My connection to the net is a business FiOS with fixed IP and i am
not about to give that up for QoS. One test on a site i found said my
connection could handle 82 SIP calls. Don't see me needing anywhere
near that. As i am just getting into VoIP and CallWeaver, my initial
goals are small steps to make sure it all works. The small steps are
moving 3 land line phone numbers over for incoming DID, and getting
local/US/international termination going out. The phone usage is
mixed personal and small business. Once working, i may move over
another small business i am involved with. So all in all, about 6
incoming numbers (one 800).
TalkLite looks good. I think i may just go with them to start with.
They are set up to handle boxes like CallWeaver. Unlimited channels
both directions. You just pay for the minutes. Seems like the way to go.
Are there any tools to help with LCR? Any external ACGIs to do it in
real time or preprocessors to munge call price lists and come up with
exten(sion) definitions?
One small configuration question. I have searched high and low to
find answer to this and no luck so far. What i want is to have
incoming calls from different DID numbers go directly to a particular
extension. What i don't know is how to get the incoming phone number
that was dialed in PSTN land. Does the incoming DID number that was
dialed appear as the extension on an incoming SIP connection? If so,
and i have an entry in sip.conf:
[talklite]
username=username
type=friend
qualify=no
secret=secret
host=ulaw.talklite.net
canreinvite=yes
disallow=all
allow=ulaw
context=incoming-did
and in extensions.conf
[extensions]
exten => 101,1,Dial(SIP/somephone,20,tr)
[incoming-did]
exten => 9995551212,Goto(extensions,101,1)
will "somephone" get dialed by someone calling 9995551212 on a land
line?
Peace,
Dan
On Apr 29, 2007, at 5:52 PM, Jared Geiger wrote:
Dan,
If you are given a US local number in the form of NXX-NXX-XXXX then
you can be called from anywhere in the world meaning a person in
France can call your US number like they would a Verizon landline
in the US.
If you want incoming numbers from around the world, say you want a
UK or France number, then most likely you will have to find a
provider based in that location to give you service. Some US/Canada
providers such as Les.net have UK numbers.
You will not be able to get QoS guarantees with a provider unless
you get service from an ILEC or CLEC. What I mean by this is you
can get QoS for your voice trunks if you by the data circuit from
the same company. I think XO does this as well as VZN Business.
However they will probably be priced way out of your price range.
Elaborate on what your application is. Are you using it for home
use, small office, or an office for 100+ people?
I too recommend gafachi. I don't use them for inbound because of
the weird pricing but I do use them for outbound when I need great
quality. They do offer t38 support.
I use Talklite for everyday use, their upstream provider is Level3
and provides excellent quality as well. I sometimes have DTMF
problems with them but its rare. I do use them for inbound. The
pricing is the same as icall for unlimited channels at 1.99 a month
plus 1c per minute. They do not offer unlimited with restricted
channels. I believe porting fees are $7 per number, but I'm not
100% sure of it. They also provide CNAM (Caller ID Name) for
incoming numbers which is hard to come by. I don't think they offer
t.38 as they use Asterisk to switch calls. I think L3 does support
T38.
For International outbound I use Voipjet, Vitelity, les.net, and
talklite depending on LCR. Faxing overseas is unreliable.
If you are looking to push many 1,000s of minutes through a
provider contact them to get better deals.
Jared
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