[Asterisk-biz] Anyone a participant of Peer1.net ? Re: Quality termination and origination on the Peer1 network (www.peer1.net)

[alex at pilosoft.com]

On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, M O wrote:

> Thanks for mentioning/posting about Peer1.net.
> 
> I never heard of them other than arbinet.com which is a pretty sweet
> Telecom Exchange, just that it costs $13,000 to " Participate "
> 
> We need a Open Telecom Exchange where both buyers, Entities wanting DID
> #s/Termination, and Sellers, Carriers whom sell DID #s/Termination, can
> meet and " Facilitate Trade ".
> 
> But the " Exchange " would HAVE to protect the buyers/sellers, and not
> cut and run when the sellers DONT live through their service for the
> month.
> 
> Peer1.net seems to be this but I'm not a member. I have a email in, but
> thats about it.

> Anyone care to shed any light on Peer1.net?
You must be on crack. 

Peer1 is just another tier-2 backbone, who happens to own serverbeach (one 
of the el-cheapo-unmanaged-dedicated-server). Peer1 has for some 
undecypherable reason good reputation among gamers and WHT crowd. In my 
opinion, they aren't any different from a similar competitors, and in 
fact, much worse, if you just take a quick look at their map. But, this is 
highly offtopic for asterisk lists.

Regarding what you suggest: open exchange. That is not easily done -
simply because, when you start doing anything that involves money, you
either can abstain from participating (and then, you are just a glorified
Layer-2 fabric, like Shrihari's VPF), or you have to be a real business,
running credit checks for customers, collections, etc. Running a real
business costs real money.

In a grand scale of things, 13k$ startup fee to join arbinet is
significant enough to deter lemonade stands, but if you are doing serious
business, it isn't significant. Your switch will cost you more than that.

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