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

[William Suffill]

Been considering this myself as well. I don't actually terminate calls
but use a number of termination providers to route my calls currently
since it's the most cost effective.

Was thinking of using Enum to store the iax2 peers to use for each call
region based on a LCR assuming the connection was reliable enough.

I brought this up with a few people and they agreed networking with
others is the best way to expand coverage but compensation is a sticking
point and problem.

Only way we came up with was to require a deposit from everyone involved
similar to prepaid iax2 termination. And their balance would go up the
more calls they terminate for members and down for those others
terminate for them.

On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 21:33, John Todd wrote:
> 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
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