just because you don't deal with the pstn directly, doesn't mean you won't have issues with the pstn.
Jai Rangi wrote: > Trixter, > Thank you for your comments, > We are not dealing with PSTN on our side, we are true VoIP. > Re: Bandwidth, we have upto 100mb. Yes we WILL NOT be doing any media on our > network which is real bandwidth killer. Re: cpu and and other limits we > have built our system on horizontal scalable architecture, fully redundant > and load balanced system, that includes firewall, SIP router, Asterisk > servers, Database servers etc. > > During our crash test, my server was sleeping until 2500 channels. So I am > not really worried upto 5000 channels and from there I can easily expand my > capacity. Our target is to do the expansion as soon as we reach the 40-50% > utilization of the resources. For companies who has more that 200 channels > on each DID I think it will be worth for them to deal directly with Lavel3, > XO, Quest or Verizon directly. > > Yes, I agree that every unlimited has a limit in terms of capacity and > resources and we are not exception. But I am positive that we can be good > resource for small to mid size businesses. > > -Jai > > > On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Trixter aka Bret McDanel < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 09:47 -0700, Jai Rangi wrote: >>> All, >>> >>> I want to take community opinion on this. >>> Would there be enough interest if I can offer Unlimited channels, non >>> metered DID at $8-$11 (Depending on the volume commitment) per month. >>> Target is to sell atleast 10000 DIDs in one to 2 months of time >>> frame. >>> >>> Any comment would be appreciated. >>> >>> Thank you, >>> -Jai >>> >> I think people would like it, but there would be some apprehension about >> it. The pstn carrier has a finite amount of channels available for that >> exchange. You only have so much bandwidth, even if you never touched >> the media the provider only has so much bandwidth. Then there is the >> CDR processing, route processing, etc - cpu resources are finite, >> although you can add more just like you can add more pstn and inet >> capacity. >> >> So would $8-11 cover all of those costs and allow you to really do >> unlimited service? What if someone ran some application that generated >> hundreds of thousands of calls? Or even a few that just did hundreds? >> >> Granted if you did 10k DIDs at $8 that is $80k/mo. And lets say that >> 10% did above average traffic of say 150 average channels, that is still >> 15,000 channels that would have to be maintained give or take (I really >> am just pulling numbers out of thin air). You would certainly be able >> to afford the cpu and bandwidth costs, which will require more than >> 1Gbps (I always discount bandwidth both because of atm padding and >> because you never want it 100%), but the carrier may not be able to >> handle that channel load, and some of the call centers I have seen >> traffic on, 150 channels is low, some do thousands at a time, which >> would skew that slightly (even though its an average over the top 10% >> users). >> >> In general from what I have seen, most "unlimited" plans have some type >> of limit burried somewhere in their user agreement/tos, this is because >> capacity is finite and they do not want to go overboard with capacity >> and lose money. On a slight tangent, I just wish that carriers who >> didnt offer real unlimited would stop advertising it as such, * or not >> to indicate some obscure definition of "unlimited"... >> >> -- >> Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel >> Belfast +44 28 9099 6461 US +1 516 687 5200 >> http://www.trxtel.com the phone company that pays you! >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- >> >> AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona >> Register Now: http://www.astricon.net >> >> asterisk-biz mailing list >> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: >> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- > > AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona > Register Now: http://www.astricon.net > > asterisk-biz mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
