[Asterisk-Users] Polycom 501's for sale

[BJ Weschke]

On 3/23/06, Rick Smith <rick at rtps.net> wrote:
> Customer got ripped off by a previous VOIP provider and had a REAL
> distaste for VOIP, even done right...
>
> Get this....
>
> they had a SIP Server in San Diego, with 25 phones in NYC and another 20
> in Atlanta.
>
> Average hops were 24, and over 210 ms end to end.
>
> Just poor engineering, and they didn't know better.
>

 We run into situations like this often as well, and it's truly
unfortunate, because it gives our industry and the technology driving
it a bad name, and like you, some customers want to go back to TDM and
have nothing to do with VoIP at all because they find "safety" again
in a PRI/T1/POTS relationship where there's one carrier whom you have
an SLA with and you can beat them up when something's not working.
I look forward to the day when "full service solutions providers"
consider the network in addition to just the application and don't
consider a public internet IP connection, sans any QoS infrastructure,
to your run of the mill volume ITSP "carrier grade".

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