Jonathan Duncan wrote:
My company has been using Alianza for VoIP since they are the dirt
cheapest. However, the service and features have been lacking and we
are wondering if there is a better provider out there that is not also
3 times more expensive than them. Anybody have any suggestions?
The idea of using Asterix has been brought up but we do not really
have an internal individual to dedicate to maintenance and support of
implementing our own VoIP system. Although, I have heard that Asterix
can be quite robust and stable. Any feedback on that would also be
appreciated.
I've been running Asterisk for a while. Most of the connections come in
through OpenVPN. It is stable (never takes very many resources, never
stops by itself), except that sometimes long-dead channels hang around
for no apparent reason. I set up a cron job to reload the configuration
every hour and restart Asterisk every night; that worked around all the
problems I've seen.
With Asterisk I was able to set up termination services with several
companies at once, then after evaluating them all, I chose les.net
because the service is ultra-cheap and reliable enough for my needs.
OTOH, les.net is not very good at tech support. The important thing is
that Asterisk lets you separate the feature requirements from upstream
pricing and reliability. The magic Google keywords are "sip
origination" and "sip termination".
Shane
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