[Asterisk-Users] origination providers

[Kanuri, Seshu (Company IT)]

Mike,

> Many of the providers I've tried contacting either 
> won't call me back, or want me to sign an NDA just 
> to get a rate quote, or some other bullshit. 

Assuming that you will need about 12 to 24 simulataneous calls on each
DID you want to run, and you are using Ulaw to get these calls, what is
the bandwidth that the DID provider has to give you, apart from the DID
service?

Ulaw needing 64 kbps per line, needs 1.2 mbps for 20 simultaneous calls.


Assuming a Data T1 costs about $500 bucks a month and assuming that you
need/use the DID for only 8 hours a day at that rate, it costs about
$100 per month in data bandwidth alone.

Who will pay for this, If it is not Democracynow who is footing the
bill?

Seshu



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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of mike
castleman
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 3:00 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] origination providers

hi folks,

Has anyone found a good (and, ideally, cheap -- we don't really want any
per-minute charges) origination provider which can handle a moderate
number of simultaneous incoming calls (to the same, single DID)?

Many of the providers I've tried contacting either won't call me back,
or want me to sign an NDA just to get a rate quote, or some other
bullshit. Most of the providers whose rates are plainly posted on their
website have a limit of at most 4 or 6 simultaneous calls, which is not
likely to be enough for the application I'm considering.

You can reply off-list or on-list, as you prefer.

many thanks,
mike

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