[Asterisk-Users] Broadband VoIP Startup with Asterisk

[Rusty Dekema]

With regards to #3, the advantage of putting in a PRI is that you get 23 or
24 channels that are absolutely reliable and have signal/voice quality that
is essentially as good as it gets. A PRI has got to be one of the most
reliably engineered basic services that a telephone company can offer. With
a PRI, you can expect approximately one hour of downtime per year. Even with
a fairly reliable Internet connection, I think you have to expect more than
one hour of total outage time per year (which consists of approximately 8700
hours) on a VoIP termination/origination service.

The major disadvantages of using a PRI of which I am aware are that you are
limited to 23 or 24 channels on a single line, that you have to pay for the
PRI line, and that long distance termination over the PRI line may be
somewhat more expensive than what you could arrange to purchase over SIP or
IAX Internet trunking.

As far as companies go, VoIPJet offers good rates but their terms of service
are completely ludicrous and do a good job of steering me away from that
company no matter how good their service may (or may not) be. As a matter of
fact, I am prohibited from disclosing the fact (according to VoIPJet's terms
of service) that I am now or have ever been their customer (if indeed that
were to be the case)! WTF?

I am currently testing Teliax and have had good luck with them, but have
only been testing them for a couple of days. If their service continues
working as well as it has been, then I see no problem with using them as my
primary gateway to the PSTN given the level of reliability that my system
requires (which is lower than that of the public-switched telephone network
itself).

-Rusty


On 12/2/05, jglucky at blueware.net <jglucky at blueware.net> wrote:
>
>
> We are currently an ISP offering broadband and wireless internet
> connections.  We are planning to start offering VoIP services to our current
> customers.  We have decided to use Asterisk as our PBX software.
>
> If I may, I have a multi-part question.
>
> 1) If we do use Asterisk, what would be a good billing system to use to
> keep track of thousands of customers minutes?
> 2) Are there are any good back end software available for Asterisk in
> which our customers could log into and view their usage, etc?
> 3) We are currently testing the Asterisk system using VoIPJet over an IAX
> connection to our Asterisk system.  Would their be any benefits or
> disadvantages to putting in a PRI line instead?
> 4) What is some good company names to purchase DID's and VoIP termination
> from?  I have been looking at VoIPJet and Teliax.  I also am a member of
> DIDX.  DIDX does not seem to have any numbers in the area where I will be
> marketing first.
>
> I have read some solutions to all my answers above on the Wiki, however, I
> would like some comments from people who have actually gone through his
> process.  As we all know, it is much easier to put in a good system from the
> beginning, then have to switch everything over once its running.
>
> Thanks for everyone help with the above questions.
>
> -jglucky
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