Just a heads up: The canadian voip store is still shipping from the states as of two months ago. Even after all the fees, they were cheaper than anywhere else for the six polycom ip 550's and the soundstation ip 6000 I bought. They were a couple hundred dollars cheaper.
When I was looking I was looking for specific polycom stuff and I couldn't find it here in Calgary for a reasonable price. The other annoying thing about the two or three companies I tried was that they all didn't have stock in Calgary, so it was basically like ordering from an online store that happened to have a person in your neighbourhood. you still had to wait. I wish I could remember the company names, but it has been a couple months now. I've used les.net (sound was ok, but prepaid payment method is annoying when you're doing it for a company) and vocalocity.com and I really like vocalocity (they are american though). using vocalocity would kind of defeat the purpose of using voicebuntu though, since they host the pbx system themselves and you just point your phones at their servers. Cheers, Chris On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Dana Harding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Peter, > > Asterisk - The Future of Telephony (http://www.asteriskdocs.org/) and > http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/ are good general resources. I'm not aware > of any newsgroups, but the mailing lists hosted by Digium > (http://www.asterisk.org/support/mailing-lists) are usually pretty good - > and some of the participants have experience with setups larger than the > size you are looking at. > > There are a few references suggesting that freeswitch is more stable with > more simultaneous calls than Asterisk - if this is the case you might be > able to use fewer servers to host 50-70 lines. > http://www.freeswitch.org/node/117 > If your implementation will be working with a lot of SIP traffic - some SIP > Proxies might be desired. > > Not sure who in Calgary is happy to sell hardware directly to end-users, > for > online shopping Voip Supply (http://www.voipsupply.com/home.php) has a > good > selection. > I was pretty annoyed a couple years ago when I ordered some phones from > their "Canadian" version (http://www.canadianvoipstore.com/home.php) and > they shipped the product from the states. > This meant an extra long delay at the border plus the requsite fees (thank > you CBSA). Lesson learned: My mistake to assume "Canadian" in the name > means assets are actually in country. This may or may not still be the > case. > My few transactions with www.voipdepot.ca have been excellent. (haven't > had > to RMA anything - so can't speak on how they handle that yet) > > Not sure about local SIP-based providers - let me know if you find any > (edit: check out broadconnect.ca as per below). My understanding of > exactly how the process works is fuzzy - but you should be able to choose > your number from the entire selection of what a provider has in stock, and > they might be able to find and purchase a desired number for you on demand > if it's available. You will probably have to talk/e-mail a human to do it. > Some services let you pick from a limited selection of numbers with no > human > intervention. > > Providers I came across when trying to find Canadian ones are below. (some > are American, I don't remember seeing any European ones. Locations are > based on contact address: can't really trust an area code with a company > who makes a living by having phone numbers in multiple locations) > > http://www.voicenetwork.ca/voipservice.html (Ontario) > http://billing.atlasvoice.com/billing/index.php (Toronto) > http://www.unlimitel.ca/temp/services/voip_services/voip_ala_carte.html > (Ontario) > http://les.net/products/product_ipdidcanada.php (Manitoba?) > http://www.inphonex.com/rates/ > http://fonosip.com/english/plan-numeros.html > http://www.vitelity.com/index.php?p=retailserv > http://www.digitalcon.ca/ > http://www.iristel.ca/pricing.php (Ontario) > http://www.easyofficephone.com/pricing (Ontario) > http://www.voicemeup.com/services.html (Quebec) > http://www.broadconnect.ca/contact_us.html (Says they have an office in > Calgary) > http://www.voipinvite.com/ (Ontario) > http://www.acanac.ca/ > http://www.didww.com/ > http://www.bbvoice.ca/rateplans_business.php > https://www.nexvortex.com/PublicPages/services.aspx > http://www.nufone.net/pre-paid-voip/ > > http://www.voicemailtel.com/products-services/virtual-phone-service/virtual-phone-service.html#tollfreerates > (ontario) > > Regards, > Dana Harding > > ----- Original Message ----- > > I would like to learn more about VOIP and I am planning on setting up an > > Asterisk box ( VoiceBuntu ) > > Any suggestions regarding Canadian/Calgary based providers? > > ( I am looking at link2voip - suggested on this list earlier this week) > > > > Does anyone know a provider were you can pick your last 4 digits? > > > > Anyone deployed a VOIP system for 50 to 70 lines? > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying >
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