[Asterisk-Users] origination providers

[Michael D Schelin]

Mike - If you don't mind Los Angeles Area DID's then I can supply you 
with Fixed costs with no per minute charges on your inbound calls. If 
This is what We sell. Please call Michael Schelin at Shelltel 626-814-2354.


Ed Greenberg wrote:

> Hi Mike,
>
> Understand that your supplier will be paying by the minute.
>
> What you want is your suppliers worst nightmare. Fixed income and 
> variable (increasing) costs, both to his upstream provider and also in 
> bandwidth, both network and computer.
>
> Many of us will be happy to supply you with as many simultaneous calls 
> as you can handle, but we'd all want to be paid in proportion to your 
> usage, or we'd be out of business.
>
> Best,
> </edg>
>
> --On Tuesday, May 24, 2005 4:10 PM -0400 mike castleman 
> <mlc at democracynow.org> wrote:
>
>> I'm not entirely sure what you're asking. The application in question
>> will involve setting up asterisk in a datacenter where we already have a
>> fair amount of bandwidth. As far as the DID provider's portion of the
>> bandwidth, I assume that they would account for this in the rate they
>> quote us.
>>
>> I'm just asking the list if they have any good experiences with
>> origination providers, as my attempts to get them just to return my
>> calls have not been successful.
>>
>> If it's relevant, I imagine gsm or speex codec for this application, but
>> haven't yet made a decision.
>>
>> mike
>>
>> On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 03:42:43PM -0400, Kanuri, Seshu (Company IT)
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Assuming that you will need about 12 to 24 simulataneous calls on each
>>> DID you want to run, and you are using Ulaw to get these calls, what is
>>> the bandwidth that the DID provider has to give you, apart from the DID
>>> service?
>>>
>>> Ulaw needing 64 kbps per line, needs 1.2 mbps for 20 simultaneous 
>>> calls.
>>>
>>>
>>> Assuming a Data T1 costs about $500 bucks a month and assuming that you
>>> need/use the DID for only 8 hours a day at that rate, it costs about
>>> $100 per month in data bandwidth alone.
>>>
>>> Who will pay for this, If it is not Democracynow who is footing the
>>> bill?
>>>
>>> Seshu
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> mike castleman
>> network / systems administrator
>> democracy now!
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