[asterisk-biz] Experimental/new VoIP rate search engine.

[Alex Balashov]

Also, we're talking about wholesale O/T here.  Wouldn't the CALEA 
request go to the retail VoIP provider first?  It seems generally 
reasonable to handle media if you are doing retail VoIP for the reason 
you outline.  My question was more, why would you do it if you're just 
selling trunking, aside from the need for topology hiding?

Trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote:

> On Sun, 2009-01-04 at 21:36 -0500, Alex Balashov wrote:
>> Kristian Kielhofner wrote:
>>
>>>   I know you (Alex) are a proponent of direct media handoff (as am I).
>> Are you suggesting I should not be?
>>
>> Personally, I can't understand why anyone would ever shunt customer 
>> media into their network except to work out intractable NAT issues.
>>
> 
> in the US CALEA may make you do that, other places may have similar
> legislation.  Because of the LCR issues and other things the central
> contact would be the ITSP that the calls are routed through.  Now if you
> are an interconnected VoIP provider in the US you have to be CALEA ready
> if I recall correctly.  As a result, you are not supposed to tip your
> hand that you are monitoring media, and if someone notices that the IPs
> changed to goto you where before it was all direct to the upstream you
> are alerting them that something funky is going on, which is illegal.
> 
> This may be something some have considered when they opt to handle the
> media themselves, although my guess is that most do it because that is
> the default way of handling it and others do it to hide who they are
> sending the calls to.
> 
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