<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">We currently have an asterisk server on-site at 2 of our different locations. Each server has a PRI & Internet T1 connected to them, and I am looking to "consolidate" the servers out in the "cloud" somewhere and eliminate the PRI's at our offices.<br>
</blockquote><div> </div><div>Hi Eric,</div><div><br></div><div>Take a skim through <<a href="http://www.cloudvox.com/tour">http://www.cloudvox.com/tour</a>>. A couple items you raised:</div><div> - Cloudvox exposes raw Asterisk AGI and AMI, so you can do pretty much anything on Cloudvox that's possible with the dialplan, typically with little or no modification. Our topology uses FastAGI to keep the call logic decoupled from the phone processing, which encourages maintainable, testable, scalable apps. Your AGI apps can run anywhere on the net.</div>
<div><br></div><div> - accept PSTN and SIP calls. We gladly accept calls from other carriers, so you're welcome to "bring your own carrier" using SIP forwarding. At higher volume where the extra costs start to add up, there's a discount for SIP-only usage (1 cent per minute instead of 3).</div>
<div><br></div><div> - it's not tied to a single system that you have to maintain. Unless your business is contract sysadmin services, this is probably a good thing :-) Just as importantly, there's almost no loss of power or flexibility. The things Cloudvox doesn't support (like a shell script sitting in a local Asterisk directory) are the things that are hard to maintain, scale poorly, and nobody's idea of BCP anyway.</div>
<div><br></div><div><div> - as a convenience interface, SIP phones can also be associated with Cloudvox. That's mostly for free testing of your DIDs - it's not a hosted PBX.</div><div><br></div></div><div>You can see the prices online, but boils down to 3 cents per minute with 0 commitment (including hosting, carrier service, etc), and $3/DID/month. I'd also suggest skimming the portal: <a href="http://www.cloudvox.com/tour/portal">http://www.cloudvox.com/tour/portal</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Troy</div></div>