[asterisk-biz] Rant: Wannabe "carriers" please tell the truth or live up to expectations.

[Script Head]

If you're in the business of providing termination services (some at
incredibly low prices), please read this.

I have dealt with many so called carriers over the last couple of months,
almost all of them are present on this list. I am always clear about my
calling patterns and expected volume.  Everyone wants the minutes and always
say "oh we can take all you can send" and always lie about or underestimate
your capacity. When I send 50 or more channels, you choke. Some have choked
at 20 channels, some even less. You might have enough channels committed
form your "upstream provider" but you don't have enough bandwidth to accept
the calls and send them to your upstream. I am almost sure that the majority
didn't do any scalability testing.

The points are:

1. If you're a reseller of a reseller with a 10+ domestic "carriers" loaded
in your LCR, you are not a quality provider.
2. If you do have Tier-1 upstreams, you shouldn't have a problem revealing
that information. If you have a problem doing that, you're using
bottom-of-the-barrel carriers.
3. If your entire infrastructure consits on a leased box on Cogent bandwith
"burstable to 100 mbit", you're not a qualitity provider. Nobody in their
right mind will let you burst from 1 mbit to 100 for $59.95 per month.
4. When someone asks you for a commitment of N number of channels, you
better damn have them or say straight out you can't do it.

I think it should be also a normal practice to make iptraf avaiable to a
potential customer so he can test the amount of bandwidth (and burst) you
have available.

ScriptHead
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