[asterisk-biz] Canadian Association of Voice over IP providers ENUM Infrastructure working group teleconference

[alex at pilosoft.com]

On Tue, 2 May 2006, John Lange wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 13:20 -0400, alex at pilosoft.com wrote:
> > > The facts are simple, paying your competition to complete calls is not
> > > good business. When one VoIP customer calls another routing the call
> > > over the PSTN just does not make sense.
> > Don't get me wrong, I wish you best, and I think its the Right Way, but, 
> > this has a low chance of happening.
> 
> On the contrary; it is happening. There are already examples of peering
> networks for VoIP.
VoIP is not necessary Voice over Intarweb.
VoIP good, Intarweb bad.

> 
> > a) while many carriers run IP in their network, I doubt any of them will 
> > want to *accept* calls from another carrier over public intarweb, much 
> > less *send* the calls to another carrier. I certainly won't.
> 
> If there are VoIP providers who don't believe in sending calls over the
> Internet it would seem they are not in the right business.
*plonk*
VoIP is not necessary Voice over Intarweb.
VoIP good, Intarweb bad.

> >  Unless there's some push for "carrier-only private network to connect
> > enum-enabled carriers" or carriers interconnecting via switches at
> > soem fabrics, I doubt you will have any big boys using it.
> 
> Private closed networks are what we have now. If a provider wants to use
> use a private closed network then the existing PSTN is a much better
> solution.
*plonk*
VoIP is not necessary Voice over Intarweb.
VoIP good, Intarweb bad.

-alex