Thank you very much for your help Rich, I really appreciate it.<br>
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--Andrew<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/10/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Rich Adamson</b> <<a href="mailto:radamson@routers.com">radamson@routers.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Your assumptions are right on the mark. However, keep in mind that<br>regardless of how much effort you put into trying to figure out whether<br>teliax is up/down, there are always things that can happen that you can't<br>
discover. For example, teliax (or any other itsp) might accept your outgoing<br>call and its not processed for whatever reason. Such occurances can only be<br>addressed if you provide your users with an alternative way to dial. Common
<br>approaches would be to include something like: a) dial 9+digits for an pstn<br>call, b) dial 8+digits for teliax calls, and, c) all 1+digits calls are<br>automatically routed based on whatever you set up in the dialplan.
<br><br>Using such an approach essentially has your users dialing whatever number<br>they need to (c) under normal conditions, but should there be a problem, the<br>user can still call outbound by directing their calls to (a) or (b).
<br><br>Your thought process also addresses 911 calls, etc, by you programming your<br>dialplan to route those calls via the pstn lines. No need to even think<br>about routing 911 calls via teliax.<br><br>Keep in mind that whatever you do with fax'ing probably will not work through
<br>voip and the TDM card. Lots of postings in the list archives if you need to<br>research that. (Since you are likely to have pstn lines, consider attaching<br>a fax machine to one of those lines and not let asterisk answer incoming calls
<br>on that line. Or, subscribe to an external fax service and have them email<br>pdf files instead of messing around with paper, toner, questionable fax<br>machines, modems, etc.)<br><br>------------------------<br>> Thank you very much for your responses. I like the idea of having Teliax as well as
<br>some PSTN lines in the event<br>> of the T1 going down. I've just started to read the Asterisk book by O'Reilly, so my<br>understanding of Asterisk is<br>> limited right now. Consequently, if I get a TDM400P for the PSTN lines and get
<br>Teliax, can Asterisk be set up in<br>> such a way that if Teliax cannot be reached it uses the PSTN lines? If yes, I'm<br>assuming it has to do with the<br>> proper diaplan, which I'll be reading up on soon.<br>
><br>> Thanks again for your help,<br>><br>> Andrew<br>><br>> On 12/10/05, Rich Adamson <<a href="mailto:radamson@routers.com">radamson@routers.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> > I'm a beginner here and am interested in Teliax. I own a small business and
<br>was<br>> wondering if you guys could help<br>> > me out here. I'm basically looking for 6-8 telephone lines, but I notice that<br>Teliax<br>> supports 4 simultaneous calls on<br>> > their Corporate plan. So could I get two Corporate plans and set Asterisk to
<br>use<br>> both of them and then have, in<br>> > essence, 8 people talking at the same time? If someone tries to call, would<br>the<br>> phone ring busy or would it still go<br>> > through?
<br>> ><br>> > I plan on having a T1.....<br>><br>> I'd suggest you call their sales folks as teliax is rather flexible; they<br>> will likely work something out for you that fits your needs.
<br>><br>> As others have mentioned, the bundled plans (eg, residential or corporate)<br>> have a soft cap that essentially translates into $0.018 / minute, assuming<br>> you use every single minute within the plan. If you don't use every minute,
<br>> the average cost/min goes up (1,000 minutes of corp plan use = $0.045 / min).<br>><br>> So, you are probably better off with their "Pay as you go" plan which<br>> ensures your cost is always $0.02 / min with an unlimited number of
<br>> simultanous calls.<br>><br>> If you combine the above with some thought as to what you are going to do<br>> when calls can't be completed via teliax (for whatever reason), then you<br>> are likely to conclude that having two providers at some flat cost per
<br>> minute is a positive move.<br>><br>> If you add to that thought process some probability that you can't complete<br>> _any_ Internet-based calls (due to T1 failure or whatever), then you're<br>
> likely to approach a combination of itsp's and pstn lines for your business.<br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by <a href="http://Easynews.com">
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