<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Toll free can be moved by a RESPORG in minutes. I know a company who is Asterisk based and does high availability for critical numbers. Let me know if you want an intro. <br>
<br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Apr 30, 2013, at 9:09 PM, Matt Hamilton <<a href="mailto:mistral9999@hotmail.com">mistral9999@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<div dir="ltr">Don,<br><br>Inbound reliability is very important. We don't use toll-free numbers, but we will look into that. I thought porting numbers - not sure about toll-free though - from one provider to the other took days (not technically, but paperwork, etc.)<br>
<br>Thanks,<br>Matt<br><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: <a href="mailto:dk@donkelly.biz">dk@donkelly.biz</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:asterisk-users@lists.digium.com">asterisk-users@lists.digium.com</a><br>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:38:44 -0500<br>Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] multiple provider for incoming<br><br><style><!--
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--></style><div class="ecxWordSection1"><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">If inbound reliability is important, you may be able to accomplish what you want with redundant servers, multiple sip providers and toll-free numbers that can be readily switched between the sip providers.</span></p>
<div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" lang="EN">--Don</span><span style="color:#1f497d" lang="EN"></span></p></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal">
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<div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com">asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com</a> [<a href="mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com">mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Matt Hamilton<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 30, 2013 10:25 PM<br><b>To:</b> Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [asterisk-users] multiple provider for incoming</span></p></div></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal">
</p><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">>The process will depend on your provider, of course, but I know some have an option that if they are unable to reach<br>
>your box, then they can auto-forward to another DID, or to a voicemail box, or to a user-defined function, etc. <br><br>Forwarding to another DID will/should work for us assuming they are going to be able to do that during a failure on their side. During a recent outage (I think they had some major issues at one of their switches), they were not able to send the calls to our box which was online. <br>
<br>Thanks,<br>Matt<br><br></span></p><div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><hr id="ecxstopSpelling" align="center" size="2" width="100%">
</span></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:38:19 -0500<br>From: <a href="mailto:wcselby@selbytech.com">wcselby@selbytech.com</a><br>
To: <a href="mailto:asterisk-users@lists.digium.com">asterisk-users@lists.digium.com</a><br>Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] multiple provider for incoming</span></p><div><div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 7:50 PM, David Wessell <<a href="mailto:david@ringfree.biz" target="_blank">david@ringfree.biz</a>> wrote:</span></p>
<div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Hi Matt,</span></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></p>
</div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">You can't have multiple providers for inbound traffic. You can have multiple providers for outbound traffic though.</span></p>
</div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Thanks</span></p>
</div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">David</span></p></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></p>
</div></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">David,</span></p>
</div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">I'm not sure where you got this information, but it's not accurate. I've had multiple inbound and outbound SIP providers for years going to a single box. You just get a separate DID from each provider. </span></p>
</div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Matt,<br><br>The process will depend on your provider, of course, but I know some have an option that if they are unable to reach your box, then they can auto-forward to another DID, or to a voicemail box, or to a user-defined function, etc. <br clear="all">
</span></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><br>-- <br>Thanks,<br>--Warren Selby, dCAP<br><a href="http://www.selbytech.com" target="_blank">http://www.SelbyTech.com</a></span></p>
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