I am in a process of doing exactly that. In fact, last weeks experiences have driven me to talk directy to Tier-1 carriers.<br><br>The sad part is, even at the point where I was pushing less than 1/2 million minutes per month, many carriers couldn't handle the traffic. It was always something: lack of avaiable bandwith, crashing servers or codecs, downtime... It seem that the majority of "carriers" aren't even prepared to handle traffic like that.
<br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/1/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Alex Pui</b> <<a href="mailto:alex.pui@act-labs.com">alex.pui@act-labs.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;">
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<p><font color="blue" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue;">Script Head,</span></font></p>
<p><font color="blue" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="blue" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue;">I am not a "carrier", but I
think the question would be, if you are buying more volume than most of the "carrier"
here, why would you deal with them? Just trying to insult them that they are
not "quality"provider. I think you should deal with tier 1 carrier
by yourself.</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="blue" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue;">Or do I miss anything?</span></font></p>
<p><font color="blue" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="blue" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue;">Alex</span></font></p>
<p><font color="blue" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue;"> </span></font></p>
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<p><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; font-weight: bold;">From:</span></font></b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">
<a href="mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces@lists.digium.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">asterisk-biz-bounces@lists.digium.com</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces@lists.digium.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">asterisk-biz-bounces@lists.digium.com</a>] <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">On Behalf Of
</span></b>Script Head<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> February 1, 2006 10:30 AM<span class="q"><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Commercial
and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [asterisk-biz] Rant:
Wannabe "carriers" please tell the truth orlive up to expectations.</span></span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">If you're in the business of providing termination services (some at
incredibly low prices), please read this.<br>
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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. <br>
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The points are:<br>
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1. If you're a reseller of a reseller with a 10+ domestic "carriers"
loaded in your LCR, you are not a quality provider. <br>
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. <br>
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. <br>
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.<br>
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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. <br>
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ScriptHead</span></font></p>
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