www.twilio.com , www.tropo.com do pretty much the same thing. Both of them seem to be cheaper than cloudvox. What I dont understand is the ridiculous price for SMS on all three platforms 2-3c a message. Even the monster cell phone networks like AT & T and verizon are cheaper.
Benoy On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Troy Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > We currently have an asterisk server on-site at 2 of our different >> locations. Each server has a PRI & Internet T1 connected to them, and I am >> looking to "consolidate" the servers out in the "cloud" somewhere and >> eliminate the PRI's at our offices. >> > > Hi Eric, > > Take a skim through <http://www.cloudvox.com/tour>. A couple items you > raised: > - Cloudvox exposes raw Asterisk AGI and AMI, so you can do pretty much > anything on Cloudvox that's possible with the dialplan, typically with > little or no modification. Our topology uses FastAGI to keep the call logic > decoupled from the phone processing, which encourages maintainable, > testable, scalable apps. Your AGI apps can run anywhere on the net. > > - accept PSTN and SIP calls. We gladly accept calls from other carriers, > so you're welcome to "bring your own carrier" using SIP forwarding. At > higher volume where the extra costs start to add up, there's a discount for > SIP-only usage (1 cent per minute instead of 3). > > - it's not tied to a single system that you have to maintain. Unless your > business is contract sysadmin services, this is probably a good thing :-) > Just as importantly, there's almost no loss of power or flexibility. The > things Cloudvox doesn't support (like a shell script sitting in a local > Asterisk directory) are the things that are hard to maintain, scale poorly, > and nobody's idea of BCP anyway. > > - as a convenience interface, SIP phones can also be associated with > Cloudvox. That's mostly for free testing of your DIDs - it's not a hosted > PBX. > > You can see the prices online, but boils down to 3 cents per minute with 0 > commitment (including hosting, carrier service, etc), and $3/DID/month. I'd > also suggest skimming the portal: http://www.cloudvox.com/tour/portal > > Cheers, > > Troy > > -- > _____________________________________________________________________ > -- 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 >
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