[Asterisk-Users] Explain to me VoIP termination service.

[Matt]

Hi,
A TERMINATION provider will do just that.... take your calls over
VoIP, and TERMINATE them to the PSTN.

An ORIGINATOR will provide only INBOUND service to you. (ie someone
dials a number and you get the call)


TERMINATION:   YOU-->PSTN
ORIGINATION:   PSTN ->YOU

Some companies only do one.. some do both.   We do both termination
and origination, as does calleveryone.com and I think asterlink does
as well.


On 4/26/06, Clint Willard <clint317 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm confused about VoIP termination service. Would this mean that I could
> have an Asterisk server in my basement and receive/call PSTN phones via a
> VoIP termination provider? The "call" out from my box would go over the
> Internet to a termination provider which would in turn convert it to analog
> over the PSTN to someone's plain old phone? And vise-versa, a plain old
> phone caller would dial a number where the call goes out over PSTN to my
> termination provider who would convert it to data to send over the Internet
> to my Asterisk box?
>
> And would this would work to call out to PSTN to two lines and connect these
> two lines together?
>
> Thanks
>
> -Clint
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