[Asterisk-biz] Connect more Voip Provider to create a network

[John Todd]

At 8:14 PM +0200 on 6/10/04, Dimitri Bellini wrote:
>Dear ALL
>	why we cant made a sort of network througt Voip Provider from 
>all over the
>world to have nice price in local termination?
>Please say some considaration about it.
>Thanks in advance
>Dimitri

This is a good idea, and others have suggested it before.  Nobody has 
implemented it.

Please provide:

  1) the protocol for route exchange (what numeric prefixes are you 
offering?  how many paths?  how much does each cost?  what codecs do 
you support?  encryption?  etc.)

  2) the method by which you wish to have automated compensation for 
gateway usage

(1) is always required, (2) is not if you want to offer free 
termination (but I don't think that's what you want.  Nothing exists 
at this point that does (1), and the only models I have seen that 
handle (2) are extremely complex and difficult to implement.  Arbinet 
is a nice answer, but how about something that can be established 
ad-hoc, without a "middleman"?  (PS: Does Arbinet collect payment for 
"free" calls?  <cough>)

JT