Wilton Helm wrote: Technical aspects aside, I have seen way too many voip providers come and go, meantime the local phone company enjoys pretty much a monopoly and is not in any financial trouble - to me this is the biggest reason for wanting a pots or bri or t1, etc over voip from a smaller company. When I pickup the phone I want a dial tone I can rely on. > I'm with you on this. A VoIP trunking solution is never going to > equal a LEC PSTN solution. It may be adequate for some purposes, but > I'm not about to dump my BRI for a pair of IP numbers. The trade-offs > aren't worth the small cost savings for me. Just the packetized > delays (not to mention internet latency) are going to degrade things > somewhat. Your example about FAX is a good one. Yes, there are > work-arounds, but when you have customers to keep happy, meeting their > expectations in an intuitive manner is critical. OTOH, I certainly > like the idea of an open source PABX doing my internal routing. I've > done some stuff with commercial PABXs that few people would attempt. > I've also failed to do things because the PABX OS didn't support what > I wanted to do. That's one reason I once wrote my own. > > Wilton > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
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