Very late response to this thread, but I have ordered a VoiceBlue 4 port from the distributor in England last week. I was actually surprised at how inexpensive it was, we budgeted $5K for this and it came in at about $3K Cdn including tax and shipping. We are switching over to a GSM network (Rogers) next week and based on calling habits gleaned from my call log detail records we can save approx. $3K a month so the box will pay for itself the first month. In terms of overflow, I'll just have the dialplan dial out on my PRI if all of the channels are busy (if all of the channels are busy, then the box is working properly!)
Rogers at first was wary of this box, but once I explained how it worked and gave their tech guys the VoiceBlue manual they were enthusiastic and their tech guys said that they would have no problem provisioning SIM cards for it. In fact, they are so hyped about this that they are sending over some high end guys from their data division to look at it once I had it running properly. Initially they saw it as cutting their grass because I would be denying them revenue through mobile-to-mobile, but then they realized that they can use it as part of a unified strategy to get Rogers product and services into CDMA shops that are also using VoIP. My Rogers rep now tells me that they are talking with the VoiceBlue guys about north American distribution rights. My install will involve a custom AGI to lookup numbers from our SQL server and determine if the dialed number is one of our Rogers cells or not and then act accordingly. If anyone is interested in application notes, the AGI itself, dialplan snippets, and how to deal with Rogers in Canada on this topic email me offlist with the subject "GSM Gateway" so I can keep it organized. -----Original Message----- From: Allan Kamau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 4:39 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Asterisk-Users] GSM gateway hardware Hi All, I am looking for a GSM VoIP gateway for use with Asterisk. I have come across VoiceBlue by 2N but it's price is beyond my reach. Are there any other alternatives out there? I've scanned across the mail achieves for an answer to this without much success, if the question has already been answered kindly point me to the resource. Allan. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
