> Judging by the price of my single phone line it would be hard to have > much of a margin even with a T1.
First of all, a T1 is cheaper than 23 POTS lines, as you noticed, but not by a huge amount. However, what you must remember is that with T1, you have DIDs. That means you can have >23 numbers ringing to the first available channel on your T1. The provider gambles that 1 out of 4 (for example) users will be using a channel at any time, so could support 92 (for example) users/numbers/lines on that one T1. > Like I said in the subject off topic but I have wondered how my voip > provider makes any money. Besides that, the larger providers buy in significant quantities, and pay a lot less than what you or I would for a single T1. -- Nabeel Jafferali X2 Networks www.x2n.ca T: 1.647.722.6900 1.877.VOIP.X2N F: 1.866.655.6698 FWD: 46990 > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:asterisk-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Niemantsverdriet > Sent: April 16, 2005 5:45 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Slightly [OT] Asterisk Backends > > I use Askerisk in my home as my home phone system. I use to make long > distance calls because of the cost savings that I can get. I also > share my phone system with my neighbor via a wireless link so that he > can also use * to make long distance calls at a savings. He also uses > that as a second emergency phone line. So for all of that I just have > an internet connection and 1 X100P that goes to my phone line. That is > as big of scale as I have seen. > > My question is how to the bigger companys do it? Do they have just a > bunch of phone lines that plug into their computer? What kind of cards > do they use, I know that they don't use 100's of X100P cards so what > are they? And lastly how can companys make money on such ventures? > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
