Origination failover (Was: Re: [Asterisk-biz] Re: some things that really suck in customer suppor)t

[Yair Hakak]

you are correct.
origination and termination are from the point of view of the PSTN. your
origination provider allows PSTN subscribers to originate calls to you. Your
termination provider allows PSTN subscribers to recieve calls from you...
 -yair

 On 11/7/05, tmassey at obscorp.com <tmassey at obscorp.com> wrote:
>
>
> asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com wrote on 11/07/2005 08:07:54 AM:
>
> > On Monday 07 November 2005 07:47, Bill Michaelson wrote:
> > > This doesn't surprise me - I've suspected that this is the case. I've
> > > also suspected that such attention is obtained at Jeremy's whim. I
> > > would not entrust a critical business function to a person who might
> > > have a capricious and mercurial personality.
> >
> > That's why you have failover providers for termination, as I (and most
> sane
> > people) do. As far as origination failover... well that's another matter
>
> > enitrely. I don't have a good solution for that.
>
> So what do you personally do? Live with a single VoIP provider? Use a PSTN
> provider?
>
> Tim Massey
>
> P.S.: An Orginiation provider is someone who handles incoming calls from
> the PSTN and forwards them to you via VoIP? And a Termination provider is
> someone who handles outgoing calls from you via VoIP and forwards them to
> the PSTN? That seems exactly backwards to me. If the above is correct, I
> guess it goes right along with the whole FXS/FXO and DCE/DTE thing... ;)
> T.J.M.
>
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