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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Steve,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have a client who could use some IVR ports.
Consumers would call an 800 number that would give them about 20 seconds of
information based on ANI or manually entered phone number. There would be
a practical max of 4,000 calls per day. Opening volume would be around 200
- 300 per day. At launch, we would probably need 8 trunks. We would
then add and adjust as we added client sites to the system.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The IVR server would need to have a database that
we could update on a realtime basis. We could do that via (1) a web server
and http 'gets' or (2) an ODBC connection or maybe something else.
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Are you a 'Microsoft only' shop? All of our
current sites and databases are linux based. Our favorite database,
postgreSQL can compile and run on Windows, according to the pros, but I've never
done it. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If this works out, we believe there is a HUGE
market, assuming it's easy to get voice files (prompts) and IVR scripts
installed and changed.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>FYI, you usually get 100 DID numbers free with a
PRI. That doesn't matter to us, since we will be 800-based, therefore not
requiring local dial tone.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Let me hear from you.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jim Kunkel</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>LAURCAT Technology Company</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>2707 Wadsworth</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Houston TX 77015</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>281-457-3205</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>281-772-8578 cell</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=stever@bitshop.com href="mailto:stever@bitshop.com">Steve Radich</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=asterisk-dev@lists.digium.com
href="mailto:asterisk-dev@lists.digium.com">asterisk-dev@lists.digium.com</A>
</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, March 29, 2003 7:28
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Asterisk-Dev] Anyone
interested in sharing PRI/T1 capacity in US (Virginia)?</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; 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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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; 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 face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">BitShop</SPAN></FONT><FONT
face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> for
Asterisk today). </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; 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>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; 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>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; 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>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; 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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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">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: 10pt">http://www.bitshop.com</SPAN></FONT></A> - $149/month
colo special</P>
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