Re: [VoiceOps] No-commit international calling

2023-07-14 Thread Tim Bray via VoiceOps
On 13/07/2023 20:34, Ross Tajvar via VoiceOps wrote: I have an asterisk PBX for personal/business use. I use Flowroute for both origination and termination. Recently I've started needing to make some international calls (specifically mostly to the UK, but also some other places in Europe

Re: [VoiceOps] SIP trunk providers emitting RTP packets containing wrong number of samples

2022-04-17 Thread Tim Bray via VoiceOps
On 13/04/2022 21:25, Liudvikas Bukys wrote: My company (a SIP equipment manufacturer) has noticed a sudden flurry of problems related to RTP streams containing some packets with the wrong number of samples (different from what was negotiated). Our equipment negotiates 20ms packets, we're

Re: [VoiceOps] VoIP is a restricted business?

2022-01-05 Thread Tim Bray via VoiceOps
Hi, You might want to say which country, as banking regulations will vary from country to country. There is a lot of fraud in telecoms, but I've usually seen this come out in terms of delayed settlement for card transactions and such.  (but I've not seen this for years) And remember that

Re: [VoiceOps] VoIP Provider DDoSes

2021-10-08 Thread Tim Bray via VoiceOps
ransit for DDOS protection.  Seems to be working ok.  CF says it doesn’t matter the protocol they can scrub the traffic. *From:*VoiceOps [mailto:voiceops-boun...@voiceops.org <mailto:voiceops-boun...@voiceops.org>] *On Behalf Of *Tim Bray via VoiceOps *Sent:* Friday, Octob

Re: [VoiceOps] VoIP Provider DDoSes

2021-10-01 Thread Tim Bray via VoiceOps
On 26/09/2021 21:54, Mike Hammett wrote: Are your garden variety DDoS mitigation platforms or services equipped to handle DDoSes of VoIP services? What nuances does one have to be cognizant of? A WAF doesn't mean much to SIP, IAX2, RTP, etc. Without saying too much: Seems to be a spate

Re: [VoiceOps] Call Quality

2021-06-14 Thread Tim Bray via VoiceOps
On 14/06/2021 22:25, Mike Hammett wrote: One of the concerns I heard was echo. On a purely digital call, what would be the cause of echo? Echo, as in hearing yourself coming back with a delay? Sound flying from the speaker to the microphone at the far end. Dodgy speaker phone, poor plastic

Re: [VoiceOps] Call Quality

2021-06-14 Thread Tim Bray via VoiceOps
Hi, It depends on your definition of pipes not too overloaded.   And I'm presuming from mention of pipes that you mean network induced call quality problems. Usually bufferbloat.   Routers with too much memory cause a lot of latency at the point of a fast to slow transition in the

Re: [VoiceOps] ATAs compatible with fire alarm panels

2021-01-08 Thread Tim Bray via VoiceOps
On 15/12/2020 21:34, Camille Issa wrote: Hello all – looking for recommendations (other than keeping the analog line) for VoIP ATA’s that are compatible with fire alarm panels. Anyone got a good working solution out there? I would honestly update the fire alarm.  Or at least the comms board

Re: [VoiceOps] Preventing unauthorized access to SIP device config files

2020-11-17 Thread Tim Bray via VoiceOps
Hi, Do you mean for a provisioning server? Rather than the management web interface of device. If for a provisioning server 1) use devices with unique factory installed client certificates.  (Snom, Yealink, Cisco, Panasonic). Verify the MAC presented matches that in the certificate

Re: [VoiceOps] 3CX Trunk Unregistering

2020-09-02 Thread Tim Bray via VoiceOps
On 02/09/2020 13:46, Pete Eisengrein wrote: The problem comes in when we get the un-REGISTER but it is not followed by a new REGISTER and calls begin to fail. The customer is obviously frustrated and is expecting _me _to do something about it, but... Sounds like the timer for refreshing the

Re: [VoiceOps] NTP Question

2020-02-17 Thread Tim Bray via VoiceOps
On 17/02/2020 21:52, Mike Hammett wrote: How many NTP servers do you guys run? I just spun up two NTP servers in different locations on this network. Metaswitch just asked me for at least four (preferably five, or even more). Right now, the ones I have are just referencing the US pool.