Issues like? Can you please give an example? Definitely we would like to work around all those issues.
-Jai On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Joe Antkowiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > 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 >
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