Re: [VoiceOps] Phone auth for incoming calls?

2018-08-09 Thread Alex Balashov
On Thu, Aug 09, 2018 at 10:57:36AM -0700, Calvin Ellison wrote: > Alex, what has been your experience with tunnel based solutions? Our choice > seems to be IPSec VPN on existing gear or spending some cash on an SRTP-RTP > "transcoder". I personally find IPSec way too complicated. My preference

Re: [VoiceOps] Phone auth for incoming calls?

2018-08-09 Thread Paul Timmins
> On Aug 9, 2018, at 9:47 PM, Brandon Martin > wrote: > > On 08/09/2018 04:46 AM, Alex Balashov wrote: >> Yes, but until and unless your upstream supply chain is doing TLS and >> you can provide end-to-end security, it's a pointless waste of time. > > There's also an argument to be made

Re: [VoiceOps] Phone auth for incoming calls?

2018-08-09 Thread Brandon Martin
On 08/09/2018 04:46 AM, Alex Balashov wrote: Yes, but until and unless your upstream supply chain is doing TLS and you can provide end-to-end security, it's a pointless waste of time. There's also an argument to be made that I haven't seen brought up for protecting SIP registration

Re: [VoiceOps] Phone auth for incoming calls?

2018-08-09 Thread Ryan Delgrosso
The "but look at them" argument never tasted good to me. Someone has to break rank and do it right first or it never gets better. There is also the point that intra-org communications can be end-to-end guarenteed. That resonates strongly. On 8/9/2018 1:46 AM, Alex Balashov wrote: Yes, but

Re: [VoiceOps] Phone auth for incoming calls?

2018-08-09 Thread Carlos Alvarez
On the security side...there's reality and there's perception. I go through HIPAA/PCI compliance docs all the time, and they ask things about encryption or secure/dedicated connections. I can say "no, but" or I can just say "yes." Our HIPPA-covered clients are all on MPLS to us so we can

Re: [VoiceOps] Phone auth for incoming calls?

2018-08-09 Thread Calvin Ellison
Alex, what has been your experience with tunnel based solutions? Our choice seems to be IPSec VPN on existing gear or spending some cash on an SRTP-RTP "transcoder". Regards, *Calvin Ellison* Voice Operations Engineer calvin.elli...@voxox.com +1 (213) 285-0555

[VoiceOps] SBCs - Ribbon and AudioCodes

2018-08-09 Thread Ryan Finnesey
I am going to have to install a series of SBCs for a  voice offering connected to Microsoft Teams.  We are going to pass the SIP traffic off to a large number of SIP providers.  I would like  to get some feedback from the group on SBCs from Ribbon and AudioCodes . I am leaning towards a

Re: [VoiceOps] Phone auth for incoming calls?

2018-08-09 Thread Alex Balashov
Yes, but until and unless your upstream supply chain is doing TLS and you can provide end-to-end security, it's a pointless waste of time. My customers have numerous customers who "require" "encryption" and "security", and this is provided to them on the "Last Mile" SIP trunk. But as soon as it