[asterisk-biz] Starting a VOIP Business

[John Mason Jr]

I believe it can be done correctly, and would be interested in your 
experiences as well, I was only trying to relay a poor experience I had, 
and the idea that VOIP might make some otherwise unnoticeable networking 
issues visible.

John

Mike Hammett wrote:
> As a WISP and VoIP operator myself I agree that those things cause issues, 
> but not all WISPs are operated in that fashion.  What percentage, I cannot 
> say, but my network has less than 0.1% packet loss and end-end latency is 
> almost always less than 10 ms, but usually less than 5 ms.
> 
> 
> ----------
> Mike Hammett
> Intelligent Computing Solutions
> http://www.ics-il.com
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Nitzan Kon" <nk3569 at yahoo.com>
> To: <john.mason.jr at cox.net>; "Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk 
> Discussion" <asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com>
> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 10:33 AM
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Starting a VOIP Business
> 
> 
>> I was thinking the exact same thing. My experience (as a user) with
>> WISPs has been basically lost packets, intermittent service issues,
>> etc. VoIP is fragile as it is, so there is no way you could deliver
>> VoIP reliably with these issues...
>>
>> If you DON'T have lost packet issues (rare for a WISP I think), your
>> latency is very low, and basically you have "the perfect connection"
>> for a WISP - you MIGHT be fine.
>>
>> Don't go buying a bunch of equipment before you test it though...
>>
>>  -- Nitzan
>>
>> --- John Mason Jr <john.mason.jr at cox.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Just a word of advise make sure the network is ready for the voip
>>> traffic, at my ofice we had a very poor experience with a WISP with
>>> VOIP
>>> because the network was not ready & well managed
>>>
>>> John
>>
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