Please....correct me if I'm wrong. Aren't a lot of hosted solutions non-SIP? Does that matter (if so) with relation to the local vs. WAN traffic?
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Boehnlein Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 1:55 PM To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] How Realistic is Hosted VoIP for SMBs? On Sun, 29 Oct 2006, GlobalOfficePhone wrote: > Recently there has been an upsurge in articles about the benefits of > hosted VoIP for SMBs accompanied by a similar upsurge in providers who > offer such services. > > While I understand most of the benefits highlighted, especially if the > SMB is geographically dispersed; I can't seem to resolve one nagging > dilemma in my head: > > Calls between local extensions situated within a physical location (a > cubicle across the hall) must traverse over WAN. Isn't this very > inefficient? And, doesn't it require a much higher WAN bandwidth, > which is usually limited and expensive - very expensive in some countries? SIP handsets, properly configured, will send the media directly between the two end-points. I.E. only the call setup and signalling will go to the hosted server, but the phones will send the audio stream between themselves on the same LAN. > So, for a 20-user SMB with all its users located in a single office, > all extension-to-extension (local) calls must go out on a WAN and come > back to the office. This will require a much higher scarce WAN > bandwidth and not use the abundant LAN bandwidth! No. > Would hosted VoIP be a better choice such an SMB? Depends on the customer, it's needs. Every solution is different. > I would appreciate your thoughts on this issue to help sleep well :) You might want to read up on how SIP works. Singalling is done on one port, while media is handled as a separate transaction using RTP. > Thanks. > > -- Vice President of N2Net, a New Age Consulting Service, Inc. Company http://www.n2net.net Where everything clicks into place! KP-216-121-ST _______________________________________________ --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
