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color=#0000ff size=2>You need to carefully consider outside VoIP providers
IMHO. I would look for providers who are very upfront about their network
architecture and how they connect to the PSTN (the public telephone
network). As a minimum, I would ask for IP addresses to some of their SIP
servers and check ping times. I would look for consistent ping times at
different times of the day with round trips below 50ms ideally but definitely no
more than 100ms. A lot of this depends on geography. It is also
important to know how they connect to the public phone network IMHO.
Ideally, they have direct "TDM" connections (digital telephone connections) as
opposed to IP connections to who knows where. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>There are other considerations as well but I think that is
a good start IMHO.</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Bruce Reeves
[mailto:asterisk@nortex-networks.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, August 02,
2006 4:58 AM<BR><B>To:</B> Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial
Discussion<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk with VoIP
phone<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>Yes this is possible, you just setup the softphones and maybe the
provider in sip.conf and write your dialplan :)<BR><BR>
<DIV><SPAN class=gmail_quote>On 8/1/06, <B class=gmail_sendername>J Rangi</B>
<<A href="mailto:jprangi@aleks.com"> jprangi@aleks.com</A>>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">Hello,<BR><BR>Is
is possible to setup an asterisk server with out buying Digium card. <BR>I
mean can we do this type of setup.<BR>We all know that X-Lite can be used as
a soft phone to have an IP<BR>extension.<BR>Is it possible to take a service
from another VoIP service provider, and<BR>get the IP phone number. Make
that phone numbe gateway to outside world. <BR>Now all the internal
extensions use that phone to receive and make calls<BR>to out side
world.<BR>Has any one done this kind of setup or know anything about
this.<BR><BR>Thank
you,<BR>-Jai<BR>_______________________________________________
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