Jeremy Wrote:Our company is glad to see more VoIP wholesalers out there, if someone's cheaper than we are, we'll buy from them, and it's just better for the industry all around.
So then how do you intend to guarantee QoS to your customers if you are simply buying random VoIP routes from others? Smells like a recipe for disaster to me. I am going to stick to dumping our traffic onto our known reliable TDM network.
We don't buy "random VoIP routes", we deploy network directly to the end offices or tandem serving the LATAs we have deployed in, or we buy directly from another CLEC [usually a partner CLEC] that has done that in off-net markets. We also don't connect to major routes using public Internet, we use long haul Ethernet or fiber OCx. And lastly, all of our routes are backed by at least one backup route, usually more than one.
We certainly do guarantee QoS to any customer who connects to us with a private line connection or colocates with us. The weak point is having customers that connect to you over public Internet. I would consider anyone a fool who guarantees QoS over public internet.
Dumping traffic onto an overpriced IXC like Qwest or Global [who is then in turn converting it back into VoIP, and transporting it to CLECs such as us, who is then converting it back into TDM] makes you a middleman who is paying too much. Invest in some network, and then you'll be selling to those guys instead of paying too much to them.
yours, Matthew
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