Please excuse my unfamiliarity with the industry, but what constitutes a "Tier 1" VoIP carrier? Are we talking RBOCs/CLECs only? Would (for example) Level3 count?
Does the carrier have to terminate the calls via TDM directly from the customer-facing VoIP server? Can the carrier pass the calls over their own IP network to a different server before putting the call on a TDM circuit? (And etc...) I certainly understand the difference between a "good" and "crappy" VoIP outfit; I am just curious as to what exactly is required for a company to be considered a "Tier 1" VoIP carrier. -Rusty On 2/1/06, Script Head <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am in a process of doing exactly that. In fact, last weeks experiences > have driven me to talk directy to Tier-1 carriers. > > The sad part is, even at the point where I was pushing less than 1/2 million > minutes per month, many carriers couldn't handle the traffic. It was always > something: lack of avaiable bandwith, crashing servers or codecs, > downtime... It seem that the majority of "carriers" aren't even prepared to > handle traffic like that. > > > > > On 2/1/06, Alex Pui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Script Head, > > > > > > > > I am not a "carrier", but I think the question would be, if you are buying > more volume than most of the "carrier" here, why would you deal with them? > Just trying to insult them that they are not "quality"provider. I think you > should deal with tier 1 carrier by yourself. > > > > > > > > Or do I miss anything? > > > > > > > > Alex > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Script Head > > Sent: February 1, 2006 10:30 AM > > To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion > > Subject: [asterisk-biz] Rant: Wannabe "carriers" please tell the truth > orlive up to expectations. > > > > > > > > > > > > If you're in the business of providing termination services (some at > incredibly low prices), please read this. > > > > I have dealt with many so called carriers over the last couple of months, > almost all of them are present on this list. I am always clear about my > calling patterns and expected volume. Everyone wants the minutes and always > say "oh we can take all you can send" and always lie about or underestimate > your capacity. When I send 50 or more channels, you choke. Some have choked > at 20 channels, some even less. You might have enough channels committed > form your "upstream provider" but you don't have enough bandwidth to accept > the calls and send them to your upstream. I am almost sure that the majority > didn't do any scalability testing. > > > > The points are: > > > > 1. If you're a reseller of a reseller with a 10+ domestic "carriers" > loaded in your LCR, you are not a quality provider. > > 2. If you do have Tier-1 upstreams, you shouldn't have a problem revealing > that information. If you have a problem doing that, you're using > bottom-of-the-barrel carriers. > > 3. If your entire infrastructure consits on a leased box on Cogent > bandwith "burstable to 100 mbit", you're not a qualitity provider. Nobody in > their right mind will let you burst from 1 mbit to 100 for $59.95 per month. > > 4. When someone asks you for a commitment of N number of channels, you > better damn have them or say straight out you can't do it. > > > > I think it should be also a normal practice to make iptraf avaiable to a > potential customer so he can test the amount of bandwidth (and burst) you > have available. > > > > ScriptHead > > _______________________________________________ > > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > > > asterisk-biz mailing list > > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-biz mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz > > > _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
