[asterisk-biz] Digium, Polycom, and Netxusa Cutting Us Out?!?

[Bill Michaelson]

Now you say end-to-end, and I'm unclear as to the meaning.  But you 
originally suggested something else.

QoS only serves its intended purpose if one controls all the hops 
between a packet source and destination.  If my ISP does not also also 
provide the VoIP termination, my packets must traverse the net where 
there is no QoS assurance.  So mixing Speakeasy with, say, Vitelity as 
you suggest is problematic.  Thus my question: It might work very well 
anyway, but isn't there a qualitative difference?

Charles Vance wrote:
> Why can't you go with any one of a number of other broadband providers 
> that will still give you the end to end service you need?  
> Bandwidth.com is one that comes to mind they offer decent pricing and 
> end to end voip origination/termination and a 99.999 SLA to boot.
>
> There are others as well.  Also, Qos can be managed from within your 
> router as long as you have a good reliable bandwidth connection.
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I understood you to say that you were 
> having problems with speakeasy since they wouldnt let you use Asterisk 
> over their Voip channels. Im just saying there are many other 
> combinations of sip trunking and voip transport out there. Aren't 
> there? (BTW I didn't realize speakeasy would prohibit use of Asterisk 
> on their network, maybe I misunderstood?)
>
> Ben Vance
> mountaintop solutions
>
>
>
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:41:24 -0400
>     From: bill at cosi.com
>     To: asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com
>     Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Digium, Polycom, and Netxusa Cutting
>     Us Out?!?
>
>     Qualitatively?  Can you elaborate, please?
>
>     Charles Vance wrote:
>
>
>         Any decent router and a 5 nine SLA from your telco is same same.
>
>         Ben Vance
>         mountaintop solutions
>         800-874-4413  ext 500
>         fax 309-285-8312
>
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>             Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:44:29 -0400
>             From: bill at cosi.com <mailto:bill at cosi.com>
>             To: asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com
>             <mailto:asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com>
>             Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Digium, Polycom, and Netxusa
>             Cutting Us Out?!?
>
>             Here is why bother:
>
>             Speakeasy can provide QoS to its own PSTN termination point.
>
>             That is a key architectural feature.
>
>             Charles Vance wrote:
>
>                 Why bother? You can still get a good rate from
>                 speakeasy for the DSL bandwidth and then just use some
>                 other voip provider such as telasip or vitelity
>
>
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