Re: [asterisk-biz] Re: 911

2006-03-08 Thread David Thomas
Well Gregory, the reason they don't just jump is 1.) Fat start-up cost and non-stable pricing .. we've seen Dash911 almost quadruple their start-up fee, and increase the monthly price at least 3 times since service was announced. 2.) The questionable service reliability. All the dash911

Re: [asterisk-biz] Toronto DIDs

2006-03-08 Thread Shidan
Whose your PRI with, if the price is right and you're not with a reseller, id be interested in renting the actual pri from you for a monthly no contract rate.--ShidanOn 3/7/06, Jon Weisman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody need Toronto DID's? I've got a PRI looking to sell on a monthlybasis

Re: [asterisk-biz] Does VoIP Really Work for Serious Business?

2006-03-08 Thread Wayne Gemmell
On Tuesday 07 March 2006 23:15, Mark wrote: There is really no reason in most cases to pass the media through an asterisk box, unless you need to transcode it. Hi Sorry for the newb question but what exactly do you mean by this? -- Cheers Wayne ___

Re: [asterisk-biz] Re: 911

2006-03-08 Thread trixter aka Bret McDanel
This seemed relevant on this thread so I thought I would share.. http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6047054.html Net phone providers describe E911 obstacles We have a long way to go to get the rest of our customers done, said Maureen Napolitano, director of E911 customer service for Verizon If

Re: [asterisk-biz] Does VoIP Really Work for Serious Business?

2006-03-08 Thread Linus Surguy
Discussion...is VoIP really ready for serious business use. So...are we alone. Is it possible to get VoIP LD to be as good as TDM 95% of the time, and if so how? We dont have the time to try calls with every carrier to every area code every day! (and please, no responses from VoIPjet,

Re: [asterisk-biz] Re: 911

2006-03-08 Thread trixter aka Bret McDanel
On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 11:26 -0700, Gregory Giagnocavo wrote: What I don't understand is why every VoIP provider wouldn't jump at the opportunity to sign up and offer 911 services to their subscribers. The FCC requires it, the subscribers want it, and subscribers will pay the $1.50 that it

[asterisk-biz] 805 - Ventura, CA - DID

2006-03-08 Thread Richard Cook
Hello, Anyone have DIDs in 805, Ventura, CA? -- Richard Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] T: 705-223-2000 ext 2010 ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:

RE: [asterisk-biz] Does VoIP Really Work for Serious Business?

2006-03-08 Thread John Bittner
I think VoIP will be ready for serious business use only if the voip provider can control the whole path of the call before it hits the PSTN. For us we spent the last year getting our network ready to deploy voip. Like everyone else we started out thinking big and tested everyone's

Re: [asterisk-biz] Does VoIP Really Work for Serious Business?

2006-03-08 Thread Chris Mason (Lists)
Voip Xpress wrote: Discussion...is VoIP really ready for serious business use. We have been installing Asterisk for customers for about a year now, and we are beginning to wonder if parts of VoIP are really ready for serious business. Long Distance in particular is a problem. I'm not sure

RE: [asterisk-biz] Does VoIP Really Work for Serious Business?

2006-03-08 Thread Herman Webley
On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 15:21 -0500, Steve Totaro wrote: This is a great and honest email. I am looking forward to the replies. My thoughts are VoIP is ready for serious business on the LAN and point to point links. I think VoIP, open source VoIP and Asterisk have a lot to offer. Despite all

RE: [asterisk-biz] Does VoIP Really Work for Serious Business?

2006-03-08 Thread Abdullah Fatih
An add on , most sucking LD providers offer 30/6 billing with lots of 1-2 sec calls , customer is unhappy besides you can even lose money due to minimum 30 secs in the case you bill your customers 1-1 just with the idea of being fair. Regarding quality , the result is sometimes same with %10-20

Re: [asterisk-biz] 911

2006-03-08 Thread C F
On 3/7/06, Tim Booth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree with you completely. It sound like there are loop holes and many Wrong, these are not loop holes but what the FCC intended. providers can call their solution compliant. Personally speaking my Again, wrong, you should have said: 'many

Re: [asterisk-biz] Does VoIP Really Work for Serious Business?

2006-03-08 Thread Wilson Pickett
We have been installing Asterisk for customers for about a year now, and we are beginning to wonder if parts of VoIP are really ready for serious business. Aside from carrier network problems, the real question in my mind is, do you want to compare voIP with cellphone quality or twisted pair

RE: [asterisk-biz] Does VoIP Really Work for Serious Business?

2006-03-08 Thread Greg Boehnlein
On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Steve Totaro wrote: This is a great and honest email. I am looking forward to the replies. My thoughts are VoIP is ready for serious business on the LAN and point to point links. Thanks, Steve Totaro Yep.. I make two distinctions when I do my Deploying Asterisk for

Re: [Asterisk-biz] Any advise on replacing an existing analog installation with Asterisk

2006-03-08 Thread Herman Webley
On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 19:28 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I beg to differ. Channel banks are a dime a dozen (500$ ish), quad cards are 1500$ish list, complete setup 500*9+1500*3=9000$. Replacing phones with IP phones is at least 125$ for not-completely-ghetto-phone each - meaning at

Re: [asterisk-biz] Does VoIP Really Work for Serious Business?

2006-03-08 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith
On Tuesday 07 March 2006 16:15, Mark wrote: Thirdly, I may well be flamed for this next part, however PART of the problem MAY be Asterisk! Asterisk favors Native bridging unless explicitly forced to do otherwise. After having worked with a variety of media types over more thanb 25 years, I

RE: [asterisk-biz] 911

2006-03-08 Thread Tim Booth
First of all I'm not asking you to promote my company, we sell service to our existing clients and that's fine for us now. I like knowing that if my clients pick up their line and has to dial 911 it's going to work. Fumbling around for the extra 30 seconds to make sure you're on a POTS line could

Re: [asterisk-biz] Does VoIP Really Work for Serious Business?

2006-03-08 Thread Dominique Kull
Ever tried to call an international cellphone from a regular Verizon phone? Chances are you get: dropped calls, echo, dead connections, [insert your favorite problem]... putting two or three VoIP 'carriers' into the equation makes things even worse. Like others pointed out it's all about the

Re: [asterisk-biz] Does VoIP Really Work for Serious Business?

2006-03-08 Thread Adam Moffett
I tend to agree. VoIP to VoIP to VoIP is just a pain in the ass. There will be lots of problems and no way to determine whose problem it is. Get T1's in your facility and terminate calls on them. VoIP is only as good as the network that it runs on. A lot of carriers just resell the services

[asterisk-biz] Asterisk Training at Keystone, Colorado: SkiCAP

2006-03-08 Thread Steven Sokol
Sokol Associates in cooperation with Digium are proud to introduce SkiCAP. Join us in beautiful Keystone, Colorado for three days of Asterisk and skiing. SkiCAP is a three-day test preparation course with the option of taking the dCAP on the fourth day. SkiCAP will be held from April 5 - 7, 2006

RE: [asterisk-biz] Does VoIP Really Work for Serious Business?

2006-03-08 Thread Colin Anderson
There is really no reason in most cases to pass the media through an asterisk box, unless you need to transcode it. Hi Sorry for the newb question but what exactly do you mean by this? The media stream (or media path) refers to the audio passed between phones, Asterisk, and a service. This

RE: [asterisk-biz] Does VoIP Really Work for Serious Business?

2006-03-08 Thread William Piper
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RE: [asterisk-biz] Does VoIP Really Work for Serious Business?

2006-03-08 Thread Robert Webb
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wayne Gemmell Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 2:49 AM To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Does VoIP Really Work for Serious Business? On Tuesday 07

RE: [asterisk-biz] 805 - Ventura, CA - DID

2006-03-08 Thread David Aldworth
Yes, loads of 'em. https://www.teliax.com/newaccount/?step=2st_name=Californiast=CAnpa=805c ity=VNTRA%20CNTL Thanks! David From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Cook Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 5:55 PM To:

Re: [asterisk-biz] Re: 911

2006-03-08 Thread Henry J. Cobb
trixter aka Bret McDanel [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think it was very wrong for the FCC to mandate that voip providers have to provide a specific service that relies on other companies (LECs) but not mandate that the other companies provide that service. It has to be a two way street. The companies

[asterisk-biz] Xorcom Astribank-8, Hardware request

2006-03-08 Thread Dinesh Ravishanker
List, I’m looking for hardware vendor references. I need a Xorcom Astribank-8. If you can provide this piece of hardware, or know an organization that can, please refer me to them. I may have a need to purchase approximately 100 units over the next 2-6 months. I am located in Los Angeles,

[asterisk-biz] Wireless VOIP encrypted

2006-03-08 Thread Tom Lynchfield
Does anyone know of any wireless VOIP phones that can do encryption between the two people having a conversation? Anyone know if the new Linksys WIP330 is suppose to do it, and if anyone has any of them for sale yet. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation

Re: [asterisk-biz] Re: 911

2006-03-08 Thread asterisk_help
With the discussion of the 1.50 per subscriber fee, Which Dash911 says customers are happy to pay... Lets not forget the State funding fees. I know that 45 of the 50 states collect fees from providers to support answering those telephone calls for 911. Those fees need to be collected as

RE: [asterisk-biz] Does VoIP Really Work for Serious Business?

2006-03-08 Thread mustardman29
I have to disagree somewhat. Echo is inherently a BIGGER problem with VoIP PBX. Mostly because of larger delays. This article is what clued me in on it. The bottom line is you really need to use hardware echo cancellers for VoIP PBX's if you want to be sure you won't have echo problems.

RE: [asterisk-biz] 805 - Ventura, CA - DID

2006-03-08 Thread Robert Wolpov
Junction Networks here. We have 805 area code dids available for immediate provisioning. www.junctionnetworks.com Regards, Rob Wolpov From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Cook Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 7:55 PM To:

Re: [asterisk-biz] 911

2006-03-08 Thread trixter aka Bret McDanel
On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 18:56 -0500, C F wrote: On 3/7/06, Tim Booth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree with you completely. It sound like there are loop holes and many Wrong, these are not loop holes but what the FCC intended. The speed limit signs say maximum speed 55 around here, so I

Re: [asterisk-biz] 911

2006-03-08 Thread C F
On 3/8/06, Tim Booth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First of all I'm not asking you to promote my company, we sell service to our existing clients and that's fine for us now. I like knowing that if my clients pick up their line and has to dial 911 it's going to work. Well thats not what you wrote in

Re: [Asterisk-biz] Any advise on replacing an existing analog installation with Asterisk

2006-03-08 Thread C F
If you have to ask, then it's time you hire a shopper. On 3/8/06, Herman Webley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 19:28 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I beg to differ. Channel banks are a dime a dozen (500$ ish), quad cards are 1500$ish list, complete setup 500*9+1500*3=9000$.

[asterisk-biz] High compression vtunnel solution for voip

2006-03-08 Thread Christopher Bergström
I'm interested if anyone has any tunneling solutions that support high compression and how well they work in conjunction with voip.. I'm most interested in answers for the following.. 1) How does your product compare to the open source competition? 2) What sort of latency/compression ration

RE: [asterisk-biz] 911

2006-03-08 Thread trixter aka Bret McDanel
On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 08:57 -0500, Tim Booth wrote: First of all I'm not asking you to promote my company, we sell service to our existing clients and that's fine for us now. I like knowing that if my clients pick up their line and has to dial 911 it's going to work. Fumbling around for the

RE: [asterisk-biz] 911

2006-03-08 Thread trixter aka Bret McDanel
http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=955 VoIPE911 challenges: and the Master Street Address Guide ZDNet - USA If you think that VoIP E911 is here, and that most of the problems have been solved, you really need to read my colleague Anne Broache's piece entitled Net ... And yet another one,

[asterisk-biz] full time asterisk/network engineer position available

2006-03-08 Thread Matt Ranney
We are looking to hire a full time person to manage our voice/data network with locations in the US as well as various places in Iraq. All corporate telephony is done with asterisk on Linux machines. This position would be in our headquarters in Herndon, VA. More information is

Re: [Asterisk-biz] Any advise on replacing an existing analog installation with Asterisk

2006-03-08 Thread Andrew Thompson
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 08:43:57AM -0500, Herman Webley wrote: On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 19:28 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I beg to differ. Channel banks are a dime a dozen (500$ ish), quad cards are 1500$ish list, complete setup 500*9+1500*3=9000$. Replacing phones with IP phones is at

Re: [asterisk-biz] Professional Recordings

2006-03-08 Thread Ed Guy
Waldo, http://www.theivrvoice.com/ /ed Waldo Rubinstein wrote: Can anyone recommend a company that does professional Asterisk recordings for things like IVR, greetings, MOH, announcements, etc? Thanks, Waldo ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation

Re: [asterisk-biz] Professional Recordings

2006-03-08 Thread asterisk_help
http://www.mikesullivan.com/ http://thevoice.digium.com/ On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Waldo Rubinstein wrote: Can anyone recommend a company that does professional Asterisk recordings for things like IVR, greetings, MOH, announcements, etc? ___ --Bandwidth

[asterisk-biz] Need someone to test a T1 card

2006-03-08 Thread Cory Andrews
Looking for a volunteer willing to do some testing on a T1/E1/PRI card which has been developed by Rhino, the company who manufactures the popular Rhino Channel Banks. I have a demo unit I would like to give away to someone who is willing to spend some time with it, and document integration

Re: [asterisk-biz] ITSP

2006-03-08 Thread Alistair Cunningham
Zafer, We have an ITSP product all ready to go. For more details, please see: http://integrics.com/products/itsp/ An online demo is at: http://itsp.demo.integrics.com/?username=guest;password=guest and a feature list is at:

[asterisk-biz] Deja Vu--- DIDs and Toll free in US

2006-03-08 Thread Ifte Islam
Hi, Sorry for crowding your in-box with this age old but in demand query. (It is a deja vu, Neo ) We need about 30 to 60 nos of reliable (99.99%) DIDs in major metro cities of USA. This is needed for our upcoming calling card operation segment. Naturally, for these DIDS, I would need unlimited

Re: [asterisk-biz] Need someone to test a T1 card

2006-03-08 Thread mitul
Hi Cory, We have ordered for our PRI line here in India, and we would be interested to do this testing for you. we have already tested the Indian E1 PRI's on Digium and Sangoma cards, but as system integrators, we are also looking out for different products which we can offer to our