[asterisk-biz] satellite & voip providers

[Jean-Michel Hiver]

James Sharp a écrit :

> On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Mark wrote:
>
>> monitors (leaving to the satellite and the return from the satellite) 
>> That delay would apply that to voice packets both coming and going, 
>> and I really dont know how anyone could carry on a normal phone 
>> conversation under those circumstances..
>
>
> I guess I should have qualified my entire question.  It was late and I 
> was half-asleep.
>
> I work for a satellite company and we already have uplink facilities 
> and space segments on several satellites (Including Intelsat 701, that 
> can see out into Africa and parts of the Middle East from our uplink 
> on the US East Coast).  I'm trying to get a feel for the market to see 
> if its worth our time pursuing clients and customers in those areas 
> for voip termination.

I think, definitely. For VoIP, the perfect provider would be:

* Somebody who can give a block of static IP addresses (since NAT + VoIP 
= pain).
* Somebody who can give a symetrical, high speed burstable bandwith for 
VoIP.
* "Pay as you grow" invoicing, where the invoice depends on the amount 
of data which has been exchanged.

In other words, it would be nice to have a provider which offers generic 
access with network contention but also has the option of giving high 
priority to certain type of traffic and bill for it accordingly.

Cheers,
Jean-Michel.