[Asterisk-Users] Slightly [OT] Asterisk Backends

[Nabeel Jafferali]

> Judging by the price of my single phone line it would be hard to have
> much of a margin even with a T1.

First of all, a T1 is cheaper than 23 POTS lines, as you noticed, but not by
a huge amount. However, what you must remember is that with T1, you have
DIDs. That means you can have >23 numbers ringing to the first available
channel on your T1. The provider gambles that 1 out of 4 (for example) users
will be using a channel at any time, so could support 92 (for example)
users/numbers/lines on that one T1.
 
> Like I said in the subject off topic but I have wondered how my voip
> provider makes any money.

Besides that, the larger providers buy in significant quantities, and pay a
lot less than what you or I would for a single T1.

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Nabeel Jafferali
X2 Networks
www.x2n.ca
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   1.877.VOIP.X2N
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
> bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Niemantsverdriet
> Sent: April 16, 2005 5:45 PM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Slightly [OT] Asterisk Backends
> 
> I use Askerisk in my home as my home phone system. I use to make long
> distance calls because of the cost savings that I can get. I also
> share my phone system with my neighbor via a wireless link so that he
> can also use * to make long distance calls at a savings. He also uses
> that as a second emergency phone line.  So for all of that I just have
> an internet connection and 1 X100P that goes to my phone line. That is
> as big of scale as I have seen.
> 
> My question is how to the bigger companys do it? Do they have just a
> bunch of phone lines that plug into their computer? What kind of cards
> do they use, I know that they don't use 100's of X100P cards so what
> are they? And lastly how can companys make money on such ventures?
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