On 8 Feb 2008, at 18:26, Nitzan Kon wrote: > How does this work? you colo a server there, then have to negotiate > agreements (and payments?) with carriers to carry your voice/data?
Yes - but being a very open and fluid market, this is normally quick to arrange and inexpensive compared with organising capacity into a private colo centre that is not so neutral. > What about access to the public internet? (do you need to negotiate > that too?) Yes, but depending on the structure of your network, at such facilities you can regularly attain settlement-free exchange of internet traffic with networks you have significant data to. I'm simplifying to an extent - it is a little bit more involved model than dropping a server onto someone else's network and seeing what happens next, but if you have plans for significant traffic, or quality is a major concern, then the carrier hotel has much to offer. > Just wondering if this may (or may not) be a better solution than > "traditional" colo for a VoIP company. :) Check out the customer lists of the big carrier hotels, there are plenty of voip, traditional tdm, and internet service providers listed - so it's working for most ;-) Andy _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
