[Asterisk-Users] Teliax is DOWN

[Rich Adamson]

> > I wonder if the combination of qualify=yes and ChanIsAvail() 
> > does something useful?  I always meant to find out.  Asterisk 
> > does seem to monitor the outbound links and does seem to be 
> > aware when things are down when qualify is on.
> 
> It would be really useful, especially for those of us in remote locations,
> to have a definitive method of presenting two outgoing long
> distance/international contexts and have a cmd that would choose the one to
> use based on a priority and availability. I would not want to have it
> decided based only on ping time, I would want to route to my preferred
> provider as long as it was reasonably good.

The problem with attempting to do the above is 'what does "down" mean?'
 - no registration?
 - can't connect?
 - connects & process calls, but no ringing?
 - fast busy?

Based on past experience with multiple itsp's, it seems the majority
of the problems aren't as simple as can't connect. In the US at least,
it would seem like some form of accurate call progress detection
with timeouts would be needed in * before the above could be addressed.