[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk for a VOIP Provider?

[Steven Critchfield]

Dude, go learn to use your email program. Turn off HTML.

On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 15:14 -0500, mylist at lightwavetech.com wrote:
> Is it practical to use Asterisk as the basis for a VOIP provider
> service?
> 
> What I am saying is that we want to start a VOIP service offering
> including possibly terminating/originating some of our own traffic at
> some point as we grow.
> 
> How many simultaneous end users (single line) should we expect to
> service with say one Asterisk box with say 1 T1 for data, hardware
> would be 2.4 ghz or so with a gig of ram. We would be using sip or Iax
> adapters (which would be better bandwidth wise) if that helps.

The fact that you asked the question about how many users you could
support on a T1 means you really need to go study standard telephony
service for a while. This is regardless of Voip or not. 

> Just trying to get an idea of what sort of resources we need to get
> ourselves rolling.

Several books and many hours to familiarize yourself with telephony,
then you need to get a lawyer to tell you what your local and federal
laws will require of you. 

> Lastly, this is allowed within the license of Asterisk right?

Yep, but your local regulators will be your biggest hurdle.
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>