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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The idea is to get your toll-free numbers from a top-tier carrier, pointed to ring-to numbers on the sip provider of your choice. You can then quickly (hopefully automatically) switch the toll-free numbers to other ring-to numbers on your backup sip provider.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>--Don</span><span lang=EN style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><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"'> asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Matt Hamilton<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 30, 2013 11:09 PM<br><b>To:</b> Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [asterisk-users] multiple provider for incoming<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>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<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center id=stopSpelling></span></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>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<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><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><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>--Don</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><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><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><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<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal><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<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><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:<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Hi Matt,</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><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><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Thanks</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>David</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>David,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><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. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><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><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><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><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br>-- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by <a href="http://www.api-digital.com" target="_blank">http://www.api-digital.com</a> -- New to Asterisk? 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