[Asterisk-biz] $19.95/mo unlimited US IAX termination

[Michael Young]

Alex, while I respect your opinions and knowledge, this particular fact
is incorrect:

"Everyone else just has a single asterisk box and a PRI from a carrier
(in the best case) or a single asterisk box and SIP
termination/origination from someone who has a PRI."

Some of us do have a clue ;)

Michael Young

-----Original Message-----
From: alex at pilosoft.com [mailto:alex at pilosoft.com] 
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 1:27 PM
To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-biz] $19.95/mo unlimited US IAX termination

On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Herman Webley wrote:

> > > We prefer that you run a version of Asterisk that supports IAX
> > > transfers.  Our service offering is a combination of pstn
> > > connectivity we have and wholesale termination we have purchased
> > > from other providers.
> > In my opinion, if you are buying 'wholesale iax termination', you
have
> > already lost.
> May I ask why?

Because there are no large carriers that buy/sell IAX termination. None
of
softswitches support IAX - so you end up with someone who is
ghetto-rigging a cluster of 50 asterisk boxes to try to load-balance
traffic. Not to say it wouldn't work - but you need a very high amount
of
clue to get it done right. And I think out of people on this list,
there's
only one who can (jerjer). Everyone else just has a single asterisk box
and a PRI from a carrier (in the best case) or a single asterisk box and

SIP termination/origination from someone who has a PRI.

When you are three times removed from the actual TDM PSTN connectivity, 
you are bound to lose.

-alex

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