On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 01:14:45PM -0400, Steve Glaus wrote: > stan ford wrote: > >I'm confused with something, maybe someone can explain to me. > > > >if your currently on a pri and are considering moving over to VOIP, > >that means you would have to purchase a t1 or fractional t1 for a your > >voip connections.
Correcet. > >but then, voip connections aren't as reliable as PRI. so then you > >would probbaly have to get a PRI failover. Yep. > >but then having a PRI failover means that you now have to pay 400 for > >a T1, then another 400 for your PRI line. wouldn't have you have just > >defeated the cause of savig money by now having to have a PRI on > >standby? now costing you 800 a month? wouldn't it almost be the same > >price to stick with the PRI only? Well, yes and no. > >is anyone out there, using a VOIP only with no failover? > > We're using VOIP only, no failover. Furthermore we're using it on a > cable internet connection. We have a cheap dsl connection for backups. > It's been up for about 2 months now and has only been out twice for a > small period of time. When that happens the DSL takes over. I don't > pretend that this is in anyways comparable to PSTN service but it works > pretty well for us. We have three locations. Two of which are set up the > same way, the third just has 3 stations and just registers with one of > the asterisk boxes at the other locations. Cool. > I think when you're talking enterprise you definitely want to go with a > t1 or two t1's for backup. (I don't really understand how a PRI gives > you more reliability than a T circuit. They run over the same copper > don't they??) They do. . For our purposes however (and I'd like to think I speak > for a lot of mid size businesses with < 50 employees) our setup works > wonderful. It costs us about $600 all in all (internet access + VOIP) > and that's a FAR cry from what we were paying through Covad before. Of > course there always will be exceptions (People that need 100% guaranteed > uptime), but for the size of our business this works. The only part that > REALLY concerns me is our DID's. If our DID provider ever goes down we > are screwed. Anyone know of any failsafes for THIS? I don't believe that you can port local DID's no. The easiest way to do it would be to leverage Local Number Portability, but this would require finding a LEC to serve you that a) could do that in realtime, and b) *would* do that in realtime. I'm not up on that state of the art, but I have people to ask. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates The Things I Think '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 "That's women for you; you divorce them, and 10 years later, they stop having sex with you." -- Jennifer Crusie; _Fast_Women_ _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
