Thank you very much for your responses. I like the idea of having Teliax as well as some PSTN lines in the event of the T1 going down. I've just started to read the Asterisk book by O'Reilly, so my understanding of Asterisk is limited right now. Consequently, if I get a TDM400P for the PSTN lines and get Teliax, can Asterisk be set up in such a way that if Teliax cannot be reached it uses the PSTN lines? If yes, I'm assuming it has to do with the proper diaplan, which I'll be reading up on soon.
<br><br>Thanks again for your help,<br><br>Andrew<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/10/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Rich Adamson</b> <<a href="mailto:radamson@routers.com">radamson@routers.com</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>> I'm a beginner here and am interested in Teliax. I own a small business and was
<br>wondering if you guys could help<br>> me out here. I'm basically looking for 6-8 telephone lines, but I notice that Teliax<br>supports 4 simultaneous calls on<br>> their Corporate plan. So could I get two Corporate plans and set Asterisk to use
<br>both of them and then have, in<br>> essence, 8 people talking at the same time? If someone tries to call, would the<br>phone ring busy or would it still go<br>> through?<br>><br>> I plan on having a T1.....
<br><br>I'd suggest you call their sales folks as teliax is rather flexible; they<br>will likely work something out for you that fits your needs.<br><br>As others have mentioned, the bundled plans (eg, residential or corporate)
<br>have a soft cap that essentially translates into $0.018 / minute, assuming<br>you use every single minute within the plan. If you don't use every minute,<br>the average cost/min goes up (1,000 minutes of corp plan use = $0.045 / min).
<br><br>So, you are probably better off with their "Pay as you go" plan which<br>ensures your cost is always $0.02 / min with an unlimited number of<br>simultanous calls.<br><br>If you combine the above with some thought as to what you are going to do
<br>when calls can't be completed via teliax (for whatever reason), then you<br>are likely to conclude that having two providers at some flat cost per<br>minute is a positive move.<br><br>If you add to that thought process some probability that you can't complete
<br>_any_ Internet-based calls (due to T1 failure or whatever), then you're<br>likely to approach a combination of itsp's and pstn lines for your business.<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>--Bandwidth and Colocation provided by
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