Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-25 Thread Nick Edwards
We opted for Adtran TA5000's with 48 port VDSL2 vectoring combo cards, going by expected losses we expect to have more than 50mbps d/l at all cabins, we are going to lock them at 50 anyway sincve we reply on RF to get data in first place. and use a central splitter to separate vdsl and POTS at

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-11 Thread Michael Thomas
On 5/11/20 1:31 PM, Mark Delany wrote: We need to keep battery backup requirements, and expand them to all last mile IP bits. The need to call 911 has not gone away. For sure. I was merely observing that the conversion of POTS to VOIP in Australia didn't create a nation-wide disaster as the

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-11 Thread Mark Delany
> We need to keep battery backup requirements, and expand them to all last > mile IP bits. The need to call 911 has not gone away. For sure. I was merely observing that the conversion of POTS to VOIP in Australia didn't create a nation-wide disaster as the pearl-clutchers once predicted. In

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-11 Thread Michael Thomas
On 5/10/20 6:24 PM, Mark Delany wrote: wasnt there a hige shit stom in australia for their new national broadband network making internet ptrimary and phone secondary, a lot of aussies on forums I frequent bitch about its reliability, where even their aged copper services worked fine, not to

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-11 Thread Mark Delany
> wasnt there a hige shit stom in australia for their new national > broadband network making internet ptrimary and phone secondary, a lot > of aussies on forums I frequent bitch about its reliability, where > even their aged copper services worked fine, not to mention prolonged > outages due to

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-11 Thread Colton Conor
"Integrated metallic testing on the combo cards helps reduce truck rolls" I can't stress this feature enough. Being mainly a data only CLEC, we wanted to buy the cheaper, non-combo, data only DSL cards. However, Adtran, Calix, Zhone, and Nokia confirmed that without the SIP to FXS combo function,

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-10 Thread Nick Edwards
On 5/11/20, Baldur Norddahl wrote: > On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 4:16 PM Mike Hammett wrote: > >> If POTS last mile is available, why complicate it with VoIP? >> >> > Because it is cheaper and easier? It is a lot of equipment there simply > does not need to be there. If you have DSL you have CPE

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-10 Thread Michael Thomas
On 5/10/20 5:56 PM, Nick Edwards wrote: yes, POTS is the critical bit, the internet/data is an extra without guarantee, ie it is not a critical component, voice is. Voice may be a critical component regulationwise, especially with CO based battery backup. But in the rest of life IP bits

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-10 Thread Nick Edwards
mputing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > Midwest-IX > http://www.midwest-ix.com > > - Original Message - > > From: "Baldur Norddahl" > To: "Nick Edwards" , nanog@nanog.org > Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2020 8:23:36 AM > Subject: Re: alter

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-10 Thread Nick Edwards
yes, POTS is the critical bit, the internet/data is an extra without guarantee, ie it is not a critical component, voice is. On 5/10/20, Baldur Norddahl wrote: > Hi Nick > > Have you considered using CPE DSL routers with VoIP and FXP analog out? > Decentralized. That's what everyone are doing

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-10 Thread Mike Hammett
Message - From: "Baldur Norddahl" To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2020 5:57:59 PM Subject: Re: alternative to voip gateways Here we have DSL in cabinets so we can have short loop lengths and DSLAMS that control the entire bundle, to enable vectoring, v35b

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-10 Thread Baldur Norddahl
> - > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > Midwest-IX > http://www.midwest-ix.com > > -- > *From: *"Baldur Norddahl" > *To: *nanog@nanog.org > *Sent: *Sunday, May 10, 2020 11:54:01 AM >

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-10 Thread Mike Hammett
ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Baldur Norddahl" To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2020 11:54:01 AM Subject: Re: alternative to voip gateways On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 4:16 PM Mike Hammett < na...@ics-il.net > wr

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-10 Thread Clayton Zekelman
When we do DSL, we service everything out of ADSL2+ combo cards on Zhone MXK gear. -Integrated metallic testing on the combo cards helps reduce truck rolls -Having dialtone on the pair helps with identifying pairs in the field using ANAC -Having dialtone on a pair provides sealing current

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-10 Thread Baldur Norddahl
On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 4:16 PM Mike Hammett wrote: > If POTS last mile is available, why complicate it with VoIP? > > Because it is cheaper and easier? It is a lot of equipment there simply does not need to be there. If you have DSL you have CPE equipment and that CPE equipment can have FXP out

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-10 Thread Michael Thomas
On 5/10/20 6:23 AM, Baldur Norddahl wrote: Hi Nick Have you considered using CPE DSL routers with VoIP and FXP analog out? Decentralized. That's what everyone are doing here. Might be free depending on where you get the CPEs. Or simply getting VoIP handsets. Lots of cheap DECT bases with

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-10 Thread Mike Hammett
Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2020 8:23:36 AM Subject: Re: alternative to voip gateways Hi Nick Have you considered using CPE DSL routers with VoIP and FXP analog out? Decentralized. That's what everyone are doing here. Might be free depending on where you get the CPEs. Or simply getting

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-10 Thread Baldur Norddahl
Hi Nick Have you considered using CPE DSL routers with VoIP and FXP analog out? Decentralized. That's what everyone are doing here. Might be free depending on where you get the CPEs. Or simply getting VoIP handsets. Lots of cheap DECT bases with VoIP. Regards Baldur søn. 10. maj 2020 14.51

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-10 Thread Nick Edwards
On 5/8/20, Baldur Norddahl wrote: > On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 11:14 AM Masataka Ohta < > mo...@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> wrote: > >> >> Investment for FTTH is 10 times or more than that for plain DSL. >> >> > We are assuming the copper plant is already there otherwise I will > respectfully

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-08 Thread Masataka Ohta
Baldur Norddahl wrote: Investment for FTTH is 10 times or more than that for plain DSL. We are assuming the copper plant is already there Of course. Assume we can build the fiber plant for 1 million USD (*). > (*) yes 1700 installs could be done for that in optimum circumstances.

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-08 Thread Mike Hammett
"Acceptable" - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Baldur Norddahl" To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Thursday, May 7, 2020 3:57:35 PM Subject: Re: alternat

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-07 Thread Baldur Norddahl
needed, for "worker > huts". I'm assuming the workers are not all tele-surgeons . > > -mel > -- > *From:* NANOG on behalf of Baldur Norddahl < > baldur.nordd...@gmail.com> > *Sent:* Thursday, May 7, 2020 12:55 PM > *To:* nanog@nan

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-07 Thread Mel Beckman
t all tele-surgeons . -mel From: NANOG on behalf of Baldur Norddahl Sent: Thursday, May 7, 2020 12:55 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: alternative to voip gateways On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 9:05 PM Brandon Martin mailto:lists.na...@monmotha.net>> wrote: On

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-07 Thread Baldur Norddahl
On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 9:05 PM Brandon Martin wrote: > On 5/7/20 12:03 PM, Mel Beckman wrote: > > In the OP’s case however, the copper plant is private, and wholly owned > and already in operation. So surely in that situation fiber would be much > more expensive to dig and trench. > > Indeed, I

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-07 Thread Brandon Martin
On 5/7/20 12:03 PM, Mel Beckman wrote: > In the OP’s case however, the copper plant is private, and wholly owned and > already in operation. So surely in that situation fiber would be much more > expensive to dig and trench. Indeed, I was responding to Ohta's comments regarding copper vs.

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-07 Thread Baldur Norddahl
On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 11:14 AM Masataka Ohta < mo...@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> wrote: > > Investment for FTTH is 10 times or more than that for plain DSL. > > We are assuming the copper plant is already there otherwise I will respectfully disagree. However the economic is not as simple as you

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-07 Thread Mel Beckman
> Brandon Martin said: > In most of the USA, it's simply not cost-feasible to get access to that > unless you either are the ILEC or are a well-established CLEC from a long > time ago. Brandon, In the OP’s case however, the copper plant is private, and wholly owned and already in

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-07 Thread Brandon Martin
On 5/7/20 5:13 AM, Masataka Ohta wrote: Investment for FTTH is 10 times or more than that for plain DSL. Only if you're comparing entirely new copper plant to existing copper plant (including drops), in my experience. If you compare greenfield to greenfield, the cost of fiber to the prem

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-07 Thread Masataka Ohta
Baldur Norddahl wrote: I own a FTTH based ISP so I believe I know exactly what the cost are. As it is we are smashing the copper based competition. A copper plant is not free to run and either it can not deliver the expected speed or it requires significant investments to get the loop length

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-06 Thread Baldur Norddahl
On 06.05.2020 09.34, Simon Lockhart wrote: On Wed May 06, 2020 at 09:17:28AM +0200, Baldur Norddahl wrote: If you are converting why would you go for copper instead of fiber? The typical gpon olt switch can handle 1024 or 2048 users in one rack unit and equipment is cheap and available.

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-06 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Wed May 06, 2020 at 09:17:28AM +0200, Baldur Norddahl wrote: > If you are converting why would you go for copper instead of fiber? The > typical gpon olt switch can handle 1024 or 2048 users in one rack unit and > equipment is cheap and available. "since they already have all this copper laid

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-06 Thread Baldur Norddahl
If you are converting why would you go for copper instead of fiber? The typical gpon olt switch can handle 1024 or 2048 users in one rack unit and equipment is cheap and available. For example this: https://store.ui.com/collections/operator-ufiber/products/ufiber-olt Regards Baldur ons. 6.

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-05 Thread Nick Edwards
Been down that road, not a viable option, in fact i'm told if we get this done without much drama we'll be converting our existing (much smaller) wifi sites to copper as well, and since they already have all this copper laid already, might as well use it On 5/5/20, Baldur Norddahl wrote: >

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-05 Thread Mel Beckman
I’ve implemented these kinds of systems both ways, and in my experience, unless the existing copper is in bad condition, it’s always a cheaper, faster, and more reliable solution. Construction costs to hang outdoor radios and run cables is significant. The installation labor for a wireless

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-05 Thread Mike Hammett
with hardware support. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Nick Edwards" To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Monday, May 4, 2020 8:13:51 PM Subject: Re: alternative to voi

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-05 Thread Baldur Norddahl
Thinking out of the box, why not implement a WISP setup using wifi? This kind of gear is more accessible to normal IT staff. Voice can be implemented by VoIP using Wifi too. Regards Baldur søn. 3. maj 2020 07.22 skrev Nick Edwards : > The huts or cabins whatever you want to call them, are

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-04 Thread Nick Edwards
Thanks guys, much appreciated! Company wants new, not second hand, so it's reasonable to get support contract - at least for first year or two :) Not a lot should ever change once set up, even if staff change, they wont have access to residential SIP details anyway. On 5/5/20, Brandon Martin

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-04 Thread Brandon Martin
On 5/4/20 9:44 AM, Colton Conor wrote: Adtran has a built in web interface too. I it slow, but it does work. I like CLI better. Oh yeah, I forgot about that. It does work for most day-to-day tasks, though there are some things you can't do from it and have to drop to the CLI for. Overall,

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-04 Thread Colton Conor
nel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> > -- > *From: *"Nick Edwards" > *To: *"Mike Hammett" > *Cc: *nanog@nanog.org > *Sent: *Monday, May 4, 2020 5:06:28 AM > *Subject: *Re: alternative to voip gateways > > Thanks, this seems far more

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-04 Thread Mike Hammett
tt" Cc: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Monday, May 4, 2020 5:06:28 AM Subject: Re: alternative to voip gateways Thanks, this seems far more cost effective. But what about configuration, is it easy enough to configure? I'm told it must be simple to config and understand and if possible web base

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-04 Thread Brandon Martin
On 5/4/20 6:11 AM, Nick Edwards wrote: Thanks for suggestion, as per previous, how easy it to configure? It needs to be understood by laymen if possible, i'm no layman, but im no carrier grade networking guru either, most my setups are 300 odd users, where the gateway and dslam method is cost

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-04 Thread Nick Edwards
/youtubeicon.png]<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> > ____ > From: "Nick Edwards" > To: "Jeremy Austin" > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > Sent: Sunday, May 3, 2020 12:21:17 AM > Subject: Re: alternativ

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-04 Thread Nick Edwards
xchange > > The Brothers WISP > > - Original Message - > > From: "Nick Edwards" > To: "Jeremy Austin" > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > Sent: Sunday, May 3, 2020 12:21:17 AM > Subject: Re: alternative to voip gateways > > The huts or cabins

Re: alternative to voip gateways - 66 blocks to Amphenol

2020-05-03 Thread Mel Beckman
Yes, that’s what we use. But it means punching down all the wires all over again, or running jumpers if you don’t have enough spare service loop. -mel via cell > On May 3, 2020, at 4:20 PM, Allen McKinley Kitchen (gmail) > wrote: > > On May 3, 2020, at 11:09, Mel Beckman wrote: >> >> 

Re: alternative to voip gateways - 66 blocks to Amphenol

2020-05-03 Thread Allen McKinley Kitchen (gmail)
On May 3, 2020, at 11:09, Mel Beckman wrote: > >  ... > The most time consuming part is wiring the existing POTS lines into amphenol > connectors to plug into the DSLAM, 25 pairs at a time. ... > > > -mel beckman You may already be familiar with this, but leaving it here in case it

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-03 Thread Colton Conor
lt;https://twitter.com/mdwestix> > The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> > <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> > -- > *From: *"Nick Edwards"

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-03 Thread Mel Beckman
/www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp>[http://www.ics-il.com/images/youtubeicon.png]<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> From: "Nick Edwards" To: "Jeremy Austin" Cc: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Sunday, May 3, 2020 12:21:17 AM

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-03 Thread Mike Hammett
there. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP - Original Message - From: "Nick Edwards" To: "Jeremy Austin" Cc: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Sunday, May 3, 2020 12:21:17 AM Subject: Re: alternative to voip gateways

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-02 Thread Nick Edwards
Thanks, I know the vega marketing says 7 kilometers, I've used them before at 4 kilometers with at 4REN, I agree the grandstreams are cheap and as someone pointed out not very good for line length, I planned to get my hands on one and test it at furthest location, the Versa dslams (which are re

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-02 Thread Nick Edwards
The huts or cabins whatever you want to call them, are right behind the admin building at entrance, so first is about 300 meters and the furtherest is just under 1 mile Cost will be an issue, Im sure I will have no problems if I have to install a full rack of gateways and another full of dslams

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-02 Thread Nick Edwards
Thank you, will do, but I am to assume that this MSAN devices combine the dslam and voice, like the gateway and dslam all in one? That we point the dsl to the mikrotik asnd teh voice to our freepbx box? I have zero experience with high end gear :) On 5/2/20, Andrey Slastenov wrote: > Look at

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-02 Thread Mike Hammett
Message - From: "Nick Edwards" To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Friday, May 1, 2020 11:20:40 PM Subject: alternative to voip gateways I'm looking at a new sister company we just took over, their remote village has 1700 analogue phone lines to the workers huts, but they go nowhere pa

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-02 Thread Shawn L via NANOG
@nanog.org Subject: Re: alternative to voip gateways hey, > But this all results in a sh1te load of 48 port gateways (power is not > a concern), but wondering if there is another solution that is more > cost effective? Seems the regular NEC's Siemens and so on might have > an op

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-02 Thread Tarko Tikan
hey, But this all results in a sh1te load of 48 port gateways (power is not a concern), but wondering if there is another solution that is more cost effective? Seems the regular NEC's Siemens and so on might have an option but I can imagine it will be far more expensive than a bunch of

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-02 Thread Jeremy Austin
What’s the average loop length? Grandstream is probably OK to 5+ kfeet but you will lose CID before that. As the low cost option don’t expect them to be trouble-free (or have particularly good vendor support), but they might work in your application if cheap is what makes sense. My $.02 Jeremy

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-02 Thread Andrey Slastenov
Look at MSAN solution. Like Huawei UA5000 or similar solutions from other vendors. Regards, Andrey > 2 мая 2020 г., в 07:21, Nick Edwards написал(а): > > I'm looking at a new sister company we just took over, their remote > village has 1700 analogue phone lines to the workers huts, but

alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-01 Thread Nick Edwards
I'm looking at a new sister company we just took over, their remote village has 1700 analogue phone lines to the workers huts, but they go nowhere past the MDF. The office runs voip, now i'm told i have to get phones to the workers because the AKA previous owners of that business stopped the