""Vance Krier"" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Actually, there's quite a few vendors already doing this. One that I found > to be quite impressive was vonage.com. They've got it figured out. I'm > actually testing out their service for long distance service at my office. > They give you an ATA186 with the service, which I've connected to an FXO > port off my CCM system and setup least cost routing for long distance > service. > > Actually, they had a deal on amazon where you purchase the ATA186 for $100 > and they give you two months of their $40 unlimited long distance service > for free. Heck, it would cost me $100 to buy an ATA186 and I get two months > of free long distance included...what a deal. > > Quality is remarkably good. It hardly ever hiccups at all, which is > surprising since our Internet connection gets hammered pretty often. > Anyway, I've been doing IP phones in production for several years and this > is by far the coolest VoIP service I personally have seen.
Vonage is indeed a harbinger of the future. Voice will ultimately be relegated to just another app that runs on your network. You put a telephony signalling server/softswitch on your IP network and, lo and behold, you're a voice provider. I wonder if Cisco will come up with a way to dominate this market. But I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for BOC's to swap out their Class5 switches anytime soon. > > Vance > > ps. Oh yea, 1) Vonage runs SIP. 2) When I'm on the road and run my > softphone (CCM), I do notice degredation when the latency gets up to a > couple hundred msec. Doesn't get unacceptable to me until about 600 - 1000 > and then I start noticing dropouts. > > > > ""supernet"" wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > A friend of mine wants to establish a business that use internet to make > > phone calls. He wants to set up PSTN gateways in some countries and sell > > IP phones to high speed customers so customers can talk to each other > > free of charge and they can call PSTN for a fee. I think net2phone.com > > has the same thing. Anyway, He has some questions that I couldn't > > answer. I appreciate if someone can help me: > > > > 1. Should he use SIP or CCM? > > 2. Is round trip delay 200-300 msec acceptable? > > > > Thanks. > > Yoshi Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=65283&t=65123 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
