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

[John gerlich]

This is the same problem that the cellular carriers experienced in the
early 80s. There were a number of clearing houses that sprang up. I
believe there is just one now that balances the books and applies
electronic credits and debits to the appropriate accounts. Best way to
find out is to call one of the cellular billing companies and find the
name of the clearing house. My memory says that they are not cheap.

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On Friday 11 June 2004 04:47, William Suffill wrote:
> 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.

Yes. This is the arbinet model. At the end of the day someone has to be 
compensated for handling all of these accounts and interconnections
otherwise 
the system falls apart. This "someone" has to be reasonably well paid
due to 
the large sums of money involved as they become a bank and stock
exchange in 
effect.
Like with arbinet there also needs to be a quality and reliability value
along 
with the cost value so that people sending traffic can make decisions
about 
the cost vs quality of service they require..

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Peter Nixon
http://www.peternixon.net/
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