Re: [asterisk-biz] Starting a VOIP Business

2008-02-04 Thread Gondar Monn
] To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 11:25 AM Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Starting a VOIP Business Thanks for a very wise advice ... we are actually looking into it, we had a bridged system

Re: [asterisk-biz] Starting a VOIP Business

2008-02-03 Thread Alice Stamping
On 1 Feb 2008, at 14:33, Andy Davidson wrote: So how did you solve the duplexity issues of Wireless, and what they does to high-demand voip ? Andy, most of the wireless providers have bet the farm on being able to cover their ears and sing, 'la la la, I can't hear you' when customers ask

Re: [asterisk-biz] Starting a VOIP Business

2008-02-03 Thread Trixter aka Bret McDanel
On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 18:51 +, Alice Stamping wrote: On 1 Feb 2008, at 14:33, Andy Davidson wrote: So how did you solve the duplexity issues of Wireless, and what they does to high-demand voip ? Andy, most of the wireless providers have bet the farm on being able to cover their

Re: [asterisk-biz] Starting a VOIP Business

2008-02-03 Thread Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com - Original Message - From: Trixter aka Bret McDanel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2008 1:04 PM Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Starting a VOIP

Re: [asterisk-biz] Starting a VOIP Business

2008-02-03 Thread Mike Hammett
not sure what more you want. -- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com - Original Message - From: Alice Stamping [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2008 12:51 PM Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Starting a VOIP

Re: [asterisk-biz] Starting a VOIP Business

2008-02-03 Thread Trixter aka Bret McDanel
On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 14:52 -0600, Mike Hammett wrote: So basically you're saying that the company just has to engineer their network properly for maximum performance? Isn't it the same with EVERY network? You put in some putz, you get crap out. You put in someone that knows what

Re: [asterisk-biz] Starting a VOIP Business

2008-02-03 Thread John Scully
Hammett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2008 3:52 PM Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Starting a VOIP Business So basically you're saying that the company just has to engineer their network properly

Re: [asterisk-biz] Starting a VOIP Business

2008-02-03 Thread Gondar Monn
, 2008 12:51 PM Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Starting a VOIP Business On 1 Feb 2008, at 14:33, Andy Davidson wrote: So how did you solve the duplexity issues of Wireless, and what they does to high-demand voip ? Andy, most of the wireless providers have bet the farm on being

Re: [asterisk-biz] Starting a VOIP Business

2008-02-03 Thread Trixter aka Bret McDanel
On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 13:41 -0800, Gondar Monn wrote: Just came across this book : Voice over 802.11 by Ohrtman Frank published by Artech House in 2004, looks really interesting and addresses most of the concerns mentioned in the different posts. According to him, Vo802.11 is the future

Re: [asterisk-biz] Starting a VOIP Business

2008-02-03 Thread Gondar Monn
Let say : they are from the same family ... :-) Trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote: On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 13:41 -0800, Gondar Monn wrote: Just came across this book : Voice over 802.11 by Ohrtman Frank published by Artech House in 2004, looks really interesting and addresses most of the

Re: [asterisk-biz] Starting a VOIP Business

2008-02-03 Thread Mike Hammett
://www.ics-il.com - Original Message - From: Trixter aka Bret McDanel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2008 4:18 PM Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Starting a VOIP Business On Sun, 2008-02

Re: [asterisk-biz] Starting a VOIP Business

2008-02-03 Thread Trixter aka Bret McDanel
On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 18:59 -0600, Mike Hammett wrote: What do you want to know about the contention rates? There's not usually any reason to discuss contention or duplex as the person on the other side off the fence won't understand or will falsely think there is an issue when there is

Re: [asterisk-biz] Starting a VOIP Business

2008-02-03 Thread Mike Hammett
://www.ics-il.com - Original Message - From: Trixter aka Bret McDanel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2008 3:04 PM Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Starting a VOIP Business On Sun, 2008-02

Re: [asterisk-biz] Starting a VOIP Business

2008-02-03 Thread Trixter aka Bret McDanel
On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 18:32 -0600, Mike Hammett wrote: 802.16 is better than 802.11 for wide area networks, but only marginally better than existing wide area wireless network gear. The main advantage is interoperability among vendors. 802.11 holds the ticket for local area networks.

Re: [asterisk-biz] Starting a VOIP Business

2008-02-01 Thread Trixter aka Bret McDanel
On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 14:33 +, Andy Davidson wrote: On 31 Jan 2008, at 16:54, Mike Hammett wrote: As a WISP and VoIP operator myself I agree that those things cause issues, but not all WISPs are operated in that fashion. What percentage, I cannot say, but my network has less

Re: [asterisk-biz] Starting a VOIP Business

2008-02-01 Thread Andy Davidson
On 1 Feb 2008, at 14:47, Trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote: On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 14:33 +, Andy Davidson wrote: So how did you solve the duplexity issues of Wireless, and what they does to high-demand voip ? there was a group a couple years ago that did linux drivers specifically to

Re: [asterisk-biz] Starting a VOIP Business

2008-02-01 Thread Andy Davidson
On 31 Jan 2008, at 16:54, Mike Hammett wrote: As a WISP and VoIP operator myself I agree that those things cause issues, but not all WISPs are operated in that fashion. What percentage, I cannot say, but my network has less than 0.1% packet loss and end-end latency is almost always

Re: [asterisk-biz] Starting a VOIP Business

2008-02-01 Thread Mike Hammett
Discussion asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 8:47 AM Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Starting a VOIP Business On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 14:33 +, Andy Davidson wrote: On 31 Jan 2008, at 16:54, Mike Hammett wrote: As a WISP and VoIP operator myself I agree that those

Re: [asterisk-biz] Starting a VOIP Business

2008-02-01 Thread Mike Hammett
: [asterisk-biz] Starting a VOIP Business I was thinking the exact same thing. My experience (as a user) with WISPs has been basically lost packets, intermittent service issues, etc. VoIP is fragile as it is, so there is no way you could deliver VoIP reliably with these issues... If you DON'T

Re: [asterisk-biz] Starting a VOIP Business

2008-02-01 Thread Mike Hammett
Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Starting a VOIP Business On 31 Jan 2008, at 16:54, Mike Hammett wrote: As a WISP and VoIP operator myself I agree that those things cause issues, but not all WISPs are operated in that fashion. What percentage, I cannot say, but my network has less than 0.1

Re: [asterisk-biz] Starting a VOIP Business

2008-02-01 Thread Mike Hammett
://www.ics-il.com - Original Message - From: Gondar Monn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 11:25 AM Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Starting a VOIP Business Thanks for a very wise advice

Re: [asterisk-biz] Starting a VOIP Business

2008-02-01 Thread Nitzan Kon
--- Mike Hammett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wireless + VoIP is really the only way to be an ISP or an ITSP. Any other combination results in too much dependence on someone else and not enough profit. Dunno about that... as a WISP with VoIP you're pretty much restricted to your WISP user

Re: [asterisk-biz] Starting a VOIP Business

2008-02-01 Thread Mike Hammett
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Re: [asterisk-biz] Starting a VOIP Business

2008-01-31 Thread Moshe Maeir
Gondar, You might want to look at our solution. We have 2 main offerings that you can see here http://flatplanetphone.com/wordpress/?p=459 But we are flexible. In fact we have actually just installed a full system for a WISP. Please contact me if you need more details Moshe Maeir Chief

Re: [asterisk-biz] Starting a VOIP Business

2008-01-31 Thread John Mason Jr
Just a word of advise make sure the network is ready for the voip traffic, at my ofice we had a very poor experience with a WISP with VOIP because the network was not ready well managed John Gondar Monn wrote: Thanks for your willingness to help .. @ Pilosov, we got the PRI lines + the

Re: [asterisk-biz] Starting a VOIP Business

2008-01-31 Thread Nitzan Kon
I was thinking the exact same thing. My experience (as a user) with WISPs has been basically lost packets, intermittent service issues, etc. VoIP is fragile as it is, so there is no way you could deliver VoIP reliably with these issues... If you DON'T have lost packet issues (rare for a WISP I

Re: [asterisk-biz] Starting a VOIP Business

2008-01-31 Thread Mike Hammett
: [asterisk-biz] Starting a VOIP Business I was thinking the exact same thing. My experience (as a user) with WISPs has been basically lost packets, intermittent service issues, etc. VoIP is fragile as it is, so there is no way you could deliver VoIP reliably with these issues... If you DON'T have

Re: [asterisk-biz] Starting a VOIP Business

2008-01-31 Thread darren
I second the concerns regarding the stability of a WISP network. However, it can be done correctly in a fashion that works. I'm currently a customer of a WISP and I use voip all the time without quality issues. We're using Canopy equipment and I go Office - Tower 1 - Tower 2 - Tower 3 - Wireless

Re: [asterisk-biz] Starting a VOIP Business

2008-01-31 Thread Gondar Monn
Thanks for a very wise advice ... we are actually looking into it, we had a bridged system and are redesigning it to be fully routed + implementing QoS + switching bandwidth providers to get a better backbone Thanks again Gondar Nitzan Kon wrote: I was thinking the exact same thing. My

Re: [asterisk-biz] Starting a VOIP Business

2008-01-31 Thread Gondar Monn
Asterisk Discussion asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 10:33 AM Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Starting a VOIP Business I was thinking the exact same thing. My experience (as a user) with WISPs has been basically lost packets, intermittent service issues, etc. VoIP

Re: [asterisk-biz] Starting a VOIP Business

2008-01-31 Thread John Mason Jr
Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com - Original Message - From: Nitzan Kon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 10:33 AM Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Starting

Re: [asterisk-biz] Starting a VOIP Business

2008-01-31 Thread Gondar Monn
Thanks Senad ! Looks like your maxirack solution will be a good start . I saw on the picture that no card is provided ... Does it have a PCI express port ? (the TE420 is PCI express). I am downloading the vmware image to take a peek Thanks Gondar Can we talk off-list ? Senad Jordanovic

Re: [asterisk-biz] Starting a VOIP Business

2008-01-31 Thread Senad Jordanovic
Gondar Monn wrote: Thanks Senad ! Looks like your maxirack solution will be a good start . I saw on the picture that no card is provided ... Does it have a PCI express port ? (the TE420 is PCI express). sure.. it has 6 PCI slots, 3xPCIe, 3xPCIx I am downloading the vmware image to take a

Re: [asterisk-biz] Starting a VOIP Business

2008-01-30 Thread Alex Pilosov
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Gondar Monn wrote: Have some PRI connections from a dying dialup business, would like to put them to good use... Just got a Digium TE420 and looking for a server that would do the job, and leave some room for more cards if needed. Initially bought a PowerEdge 2950 but

Re: [asterisk-biz] Starting a VOIP Business

2008-01-30 Thread Gondar Monn
Thanks for your willingness to help .. @ Pilosov, we got the PRI lines + the TE420. We are now looking for the best machine that could handle the supposedly 120 calls and maybe more ... + the hosted PBX @Balashov, we are a WISP and provide internet access to remote areas, we want to offer

Re: [asterisk-biz] Starting a VOIP Business

2008-01-30 Thread Senad Jordanovic
Gondar Monn wrote: Thanks for your willingness to help .. @ Pilosov, we got the PRI lines + the TE420. We are now looking for the best machine that could handle the supposedly 120 calls and maybe more + the hosted PBX @Balashov, we are a WISP and provide internet access to remote