If you're in the business of providing termination services (some at incredibly low prices), please read this.<br><br>I have dealt with many so called carriers over the last couple of months, almost all of them are present on this list. I am always clear about my calling patterns and expected volume. Everyone wants the minutes and always say "oh we can take all you can send" and always lie about or underestimate your capacity. When I send 50 or more channels, you choke. Some have choked at 20 channels, some even less. You might have enough channels committed form your "upstream provider" but you don't have enough bandwidth to accept the calls and send them to your upstream. I am almost sure that the majority didn't do any scalability testing.
<br><br>The points are:<br><br>1. If you're a reseller of a reseller with a 10+ domestic "carriers" loaded in your LCR, you are not a quality provider. <br>2. If you do have Tier-1 upstreams, you shouldn't have a problem revealing that information. If you have a problem doing that, you're using bottom-of-the-barrel carriers.
<br>3. If your entire infrastructure consits on a leased box on Cogent bandwith "burstable to 100 mbit", you're not a qualitity provider. Nobody in their right mind will let you burst from 1 mbit to 100 for $59.95 per month.
<br>4. When someone asks you for a commitment of N number of channels, you better damn have them or say straight out you can't do it.<br><br>I think it should be also a normal practice to make iptraf avaiable to a potential customer so he can test the amount of bandwidth (and burst) you have available.
<br><br>ScriptHead<br>