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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I got quite a few responses; I'm going to just reply
to the list for now as I'll be quite busy until about mid next week.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Our business in colo (really managed NT web servers more
than colo) so this is outside the scope of what we do "officially".
I'm open to either doing this on an informal relationship with some kind
of term commitment from the partners (as we'll need to sign term commits
on any capacity of lines, being 24 to a T1 and that's more than we need
ourselves) or a more formal business relationship (i.e. profitable and support as
well as SLA instead of an informal relationship, but support is probably better
left to Digium than </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>BitShop</span></font><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> for Asterisk today).
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I'm open to suggestions from anyone on how to do
this. It looks like our costs come out to around $15/month per line if I'm
not mistaken + cost of minutes. Bandwidth charges are probably not measurable
amount. I don't have quotes yet on DID (?) numbers which I assume
people will need instead of dialing into our number <grin>. I also
don't fully understand how local calls work - do you pay per minute
like long distance - One of our needs is local for cell phones? </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I see this as more a grass-roots effort to help the Asterisk
community more than a profit center; eventually we may want to turn this into
profit for end users (otherwise we'd go broke if we didn't think
about profits from time to time). </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>If anyone interested in this has some time to bring me up to
speed on what the various T1/PRI differences are, and what kind of services we
need to ask the phone company for a quote on I'm open to their feedback -
I haven't had time yet to figure out exactly what we need in order to get
a quote. If someone has an idea of who to talk to in order to order a
voice T1 please let me know. I know AT&T, Deutsche Telecom, France
Telecom, Japan Telecom, Qwest, RCN, SBC, SingTel (Singapore Telecom), Sprint, Teleglobe,
Verizon, Ameritech, Cavalier Telecom, Cambrian Communications, Dominion
Telecom, Dynegy, Global Crossing, Pacific Bell, Time Warner Telecom, Williams are
all on-net in the facility our data center is in, I don't know if they
offer voice here though and don't have contacts at most of these. As
you can guess from this list of some of the vendors in our data center we're
in a huge mega-colocation facility on the east coast.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Probably what would work best is meeting either online via IRC
/ AIM or just talking on the phone to go over this. If everyone wants to
set a time I can sign into the Asterisk IRC room to discuss this one night this
coming week - Maybe Thursday around 9pm EST (Just a suggestion, whenever
is fine really).</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Steve Radich</span></font> - Colocation / Virtual Dedicated /
Dedicated Servers <br>
BitShop, Inc. - <a href="http://www.bitshop.com/"><font size=2><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>http://www.bitshop.com</span></font></a> - $149/month
colo special</p>
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