[Asterisk-Users] Are IAX2 providers ready for prime time?

[Michael Graves]

On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 20:12:36 +0100, Jean-Marc V. Liotier wrote:

>On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 17:48, Warren H. Prince wrote:
>> we're in the process of building a business application, and are 
>> reviewing providers as well.  While we haven't selected one, or found 
>> one we're really happy with, our approach is going to be to set up 
>> fail-over capabilities where a pots line can be seized if the iax 
>> provider is unavailable....  I would think this will greatly improve 
>> "system" reliability, but not the reliability of the provider....
>
>And only for outbound calls : available POTS lines won't help you much
>if your number is unreachable because your IAX service provider is down.

Actually, that may not be true. Some ITSPs provide a network not
available forwarding setting that forwards to your POTS line in the
event that they cannot reach your IP line. Vonage did this. Not sure
about others, but they all should since it makes some sense. It guards
against loss of IP connectivity to your location, but not to the
wholesale failure of their systems.

Michael

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