Re: [VoiceOps] Pacwest Issues

2014-06-11 Thread Peter E
We're not connected to PacWest but have seen very similar things with Verizon in the past. It was usually that they turned up a new gateway and started sending calls from it. We would not have a route back to then so they would overflow to another gateway (the second call) but never CANCEL'd the

Re: [VoiceOps] Call established before audio path

2014-06-16 Thread Peter E
+1 for that answer, David. It went beyond accurate and was "accurate with style." On Jun 16, 2014, at 10:07 AM, "Hiers, David" wrote: That handles the IVR case, sure, but the harried, highly-caffeinated receptionist with a headset that can strike the "answer" button like a cobra remains a p

Re: [VoiceOps] Odd network problem with SIP

2014-06-21 Thread Peter E
True, especially when capturing on the device (versus from a mirror port). Possible MTU size issue? On Jun 21, 2014, at 11:58 AM, Ujjval Karihaloo wrote: wireshark can show chksum incorrectly at times. Ujjval K > On Jun 21, 2014, at 9:37 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > > I have a client using

Re: [VoiceOps] Broadsoft MoH

2014-08-19 Thread Peter E
It may not be "the most advanced" but I'm not sure I agree with your "POTS replacement" assessment either. We have many, many enterprise customers and BW suits them just fine. On Aug 19, 2014, at 7:11 AM, Alex Balashov wrote: The idea that Broadsoft is "the most advanced softswitch out there

[VoiceOps] Test Number - fast answer

2014-09-26 Thread Peter E
Anyone have a good test number (200 without a preceding 18x) in PSTN? The one I used to use no longer works. Thanks, Pete ___ VoiceOps mailing list VoiceOps@voiceops.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops

[VoiceOps] Broadsoft / Puppet

2014-12-05 Thread Peter E
Anyone out there using Puppet to help manage their Broadsoft servers? Any conflicts or issues? Any feedback appreciated. Thanks, Pete ___ VoiceOps mailing list VoiceOps@voiceops.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops

Re: [VoiceOps] Broadsoft / Puppet

2014-12-08 Thread Peter E
riginal message ---- From: Peter E Date: 05/12/2014 22:57 (GMT+02:00) To: VoiceOps Subject: [VoiceOps] Broadsoft / Puppet Anyone out there using Puppet to help manage their Broadsoft servers? Any conflicts or issues? Any feedback appreciated

Re: [VoiceOps] Play Message or Media File with Broadsoft

2014-12-22 Thread Peter E
The intercept feature can also be used to stop fraud or as a temporary shutoff for non-payment, which may be why your wholesaler isn't exposing it to you. On Dec 16, 2014, at 10:57 PM, Jay Hennigan wrote: > On 12/16/14, 6:20 PM, Colton Conor wrote: > I don't think I have this option from our

Re: [VoiceOps] Canadian TF termination

2015-01-23 Thread Peter E
We've had the same problem. Most go through, but maybe 5-10% get blocked. We've tried several carriers and spoken to couple more and it seems to be an industry problem. Started having conversations with Primus but never bothered to cross the finish line because it seemed like there wasn't a solu

[VoiceOps] Lighthouse Cablevision

2015-03-27 Thread Peter E
Anyone in the group from or have a technical contact at Lighthouse Cablevision? Could really use some help in Connecticut. Thanks in advance Pete ___ VoiceOps mailing list VoiceOps@voiceops.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops

Re: [VoiceOps] Device Feature Key Synchronization Exclusive To Broadsoft?

2015-04-01 Thread Peter E
It is not exclusive to Broadsoft, at least from a Polycom perspective. It's a config parameter which tells the phone to SUBSCRIBE/NOTIFY to the network/PBX. What other pbx's respond to it, though, I'm not sure. Search the Polycom docs for "serverFeatureControl" HTH, Pete On Apr 1, 2015, at 8:

Re: [VoiceOps] Key System Using Polycom VVX

2015-04-14 Thread Peter E
I agree with Shripal, it is doable in broadworks. Depending on the model of VVX, though, your performance may vary. It seems they are using a lesser chip, probably to get the price down, and their performance suffers when hit with too many simultaneous messages. So, a small SCA environment with

Re: [VoiceOps] Verizon all circuits busy

2015-05-14 Thread Peter E
Thanks Tim. Very helpful. Exactly what I needed to know. We've gotten several complaints today in the Philly metro area. On May 14, 2015, at 16:33, Tim Glen wrote: For the past hour or so, from Philadelphia I’ve gotten a fast busies and echoing when calling VZW numbers in S Jersey. Tim

Re: [VoiceOps] Calls to Verizion Failing

2015-05-18 Thread Peter E
We had similar issues with Verizon late last week. Most complaints were originating from cell phones, terminating in mid-Atlantic. Verizon closed our ticket this morning with NTF and we were unable to duplicate it again. On May 18, 2015, at 13:07, Tim Donahue wrote: Hi all, We have a client

Re: [VoiceOps] Calls to Verizion Failing

2015-05-18 Thread Peter E
I stand corrected. Verizon didn't say NTF, they said they resolved it but were not specific on how. On May 18, 2015, at 13:07, Tim Donahue wrote: Hi all, We have a client complaining that calls to the 818 area code are failing with a "No circuits available" message. The only common link we

Re: [VoiceOps] Which Softswitch?

2015-06-20 Thread Peter E
Well said Alex. Service providers require support for the *whole* product and that is where open source solutions may falter. I don't necessarily agree with the notion that the big-brands don't integrate. We do a ton of integration with Broadsoft, both with software that we've written and 3rd p

Re: [VoiceOps] Which Softswitch?

2015-06-20 Thread Peter E
I assume this was directed at me? I guess you missed the part where I said I am a fan of open source technologies. On Jun 20, 2015, at 15:39, Peter Beckman wrote: Better not use SIP, it is an open standard. Better not use DNS and BIND, it's both an open standard and open source. Better not

[VoiceOps] SIP software developer

2015-09-30 Thread Peter E
I'm looking for Java software developers with experience writing large-scale SIP applications. Looking for a full-time hire. If you or someone you know is looking for such an opportunity please contact me off-list. Or if someone knows of a better list to post this please point me in that direct

Re: [VoiceOps] Cisco 7941 SIP

2015-10-06 Thread Peter E
You're preaching to the choir, Mark. As a company, for BYOD, we take a stance of, we'll supply the SIP credentials but we won't support the device. But anyone in an operations role knows what that really means -- do whatever it takes to get them working and happy. I'll share your comments with

Re: [VoiceOps] Disconnected numbers and SIP

2015-10-20 Thread Peter E
Wouldn't is be cause code 1, unallocated number? http://www.dialogic.com/webhelp/img1010/10.5.2/webhelp/General_Reference/def_sip-ss7_cc.htm On Oct 20, 2015, at 21:38, Alex Balashov wrote: ‎Hello, Are there ISUP cause codes for disconnected numbers? And if so, do there exist established map

Re: [VoiceOps] Disconnected numbers and SIP

2015-10-20 Thread Peter E
Agree. 503 has become badly misused. On Oct 20, 2015, at 22:48, Alex Balashov wrote: ‎Thanks. And I'm guessing the best one can hope for from a SIP termination provider is an ambiguous 404, or, more likely, a 503, which seems to have become misused an opaque, catch-all epithet for any and all

Re: [VoiceOps] Disconnected numbers and SIP

2015-10-20 Thread Peter E
For what it's worth, here's the RFC that maps the codes: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3398 On Oct 20, 2015, at 21:38, Alex Balashov wrote: ‎Hello, Are there ISUP cause codes for disconnected numbers? And if so, do there exist established mappings for them to SIP? I've never seen this pre

Re: [VoiceOps] Disconnected numbers and SIP

2015-10-21 Thread Peter E
Not usually an issue for us. Occasionally an intermediate carrier hosted a number at one time and didn't u provision it when they lost the customer, but that's fairly rare these days. So I agree, 404's are fairly reliable for us. On Oct 21, 2015, at 13:46, Alex Balashov wrote: Can't a 404 some

Re: [VoiceOps] Homer vs VoIPMonitor

2015-11-20 Thread Peter E
Anyone have a sales contact at voipmonitor they can share or should I just go through their webpage? Feel free to reply on or off-list. Thanks, Pete On Nov 20, 2015, at 16:33, Gavin Henry wrote: On 20 Nov 2015 21:15, "Calvin Ellison" wrote: > > Yup! Remote probes solved a couple challenge

Re: [VoiceOps] Future of the Traditional PSTN vs VOIP and VoLTE

2015-12-07 Thread Peter E
This is a really interesting idea, Mark. I only have a high-level understanding of Bitcoin but it definitely seems very similar to what we're talking about as for number ownership. It doesn't completely answer the trust question but there's definitely something here... On Dec 7, 2015, at 16:54,

Re: [VoiceOps] Future of the Traditional PSTN vs VOIP and VoLTE

2015-12-07 Thread Peter E
In this scenario: NANPA -> Level3 -> reseller A -> reseller B -> reseller C -> end-user Only reseller C and the end user knows where the chain ends. So, what about some OSPF-like mechanism? Let's say that in this scenario Level3 has direct connections with both resellers A and C. It would know

Re: [VoiceOps] Future of the Traditional PSTN vs VOIP and VoLTE

2015-12-08 Thread Peter E
Well, I think that's where Mark's Bitcoin-ish idea comes in. I'm sure he can explain it better than I can. On Dec 8, 2015, at 00:35, Peter Beckman wrote: Reseller C and the end user knows where the chain ends, but how do WE know that reseller C and end-user are honest?

Re: [VoiceOps] VoIP Monitor - How do you roll ?

2016-02-11 Thread Peter E
We're in the middle of a trial of voipmonitor so this topic is timely as we're crushing the lab boxes and therefore don't trust any of the stats it is currently showing (MOS, PDD, etc). If you're capturing sip + rtp headers and you have a need (plus permission) to record full rtp for a single

Re: [VoiceOps] VoIP Monitor - How do you roll ?

2016-02-11 Thread Peter E
Thanks Matt On Feb 11, 2016, at 21:47, Matt Ladewig wrote: If you have the base config set to record rtp headers only, then you can add a specific capture rule under “capture rules” to override the base config. Set RTP to ON in the rule. From: Peter E [mailto:peeip...@gmail.com] Sent

Re: [VoiceOps] VoIP Monitor - How do you roll ?

2016-02-11 Thread Peter E
Keep beating that drum, Anthony. Have you tried voipmonitor? You might be surprised. On Feb 11, 2016, at 22:21, Anthony Orlando wrote: Empirix Peter. Empirix Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 11, 2016, at 8:37 PM, Peter E wrote: > > We're in the middle of a trial of voipmonitor

Re: [VoiceOps] VoIP Innovations reliability

2016-03-11 Thread Peter E
Bouncing up and down over the last half hour or so… On Mar 11, 2016, at 18:31, Nathan Anderson wrote: This message has no content.___ VoiceOps mailing list VoiceOps@voiceops.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops

Re: [VoiceOps] G.729 A/B Experiences

2016-03-11 Thread Peter E
It's not as clear but it's still quite acceptable and in low bandwidth scenarios, one could argue, the quality can be better because you don't drop packets where you might with higher bandwidth codecs. On Mar 11, 2016, at 19:03, Robert Johnson wrote: > On 03/11/2016 03:50 PM, Alex Balashov w

Re: [VoiceOps] G.729 A/B Experiences

2016-03-11 Thread Peter E
President, Client Services Star Telecom | www.startelecom.ca | SIP Based Services for Contact Centers -Original Message- From: VoiceOps [mailto:voiceops-boun...@voiceops.org] On Behalf Of Peter E Sent: Friday, March 11, 2016 7:14 PM To: Robert Johnson Cc: voiceops@voiceops.org S

Re: [VoiceOps] VoIP Innovations reliability

2016-03-19 Thread Peter E
I've seen this behavior before with another carrier where they send an invite from the original gateway and when they don't get a response they overflow to another gate way before the first call is killed and therefore The phone rings twice but only the second call can get answered. On Mar 17,

Re: [VoiceOps] . DDOS Attacks and ITSP's

2016-03-19 Thread Peter E
I like the idea. Perhaps people would be more willing to share their experiences if there were a message board or other place to maintain anonymity? On Mar 19, 2016, at 12:42, Tim Linn wrote: Ryan, This is a great discussion to start. I can't contribute at this time, but I certainly plan on g

Re: [VoiceOps] VoIP Innovations reliability

2016-03-19 Thread Peter E
Being directly connected is indeed better -- faster with fewer points of failure -- but is not infallible. It just means you're fewer AS hops away. If you use a carrier and they are attacked, chances are you're going to be impacted in some way, regardless if you are directly connected. Even the

Re: [VoiceOps] VoIP Innovations reliability

2016-03-19 Thread Peter E
com.ca | SIP Based Services for Contact Centers | LinkedIn -Original Message- From: VoiceOps [mailto:voiceops-boun...@voiceops.org] On Behalf Of Alex Balashov Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2016 10:53 PM To: voiceops@voiceops.org Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] VoIP Innovations reliability On 03/17/20

Re: [VoiceOps] Looking for a good defense for a bad VoIP provider

2016-03-25 Thread Peter E
Ouch, that was painful to read. I can't imagine having lived it. When in doubt, dig for Cisco documents because CxO's all know and trust the brand. I'll forward whatever I can find. On Mar 25, 2016, at 19:55, Aaron C. de Bruyn wrote: I'll try to make this short: I am an IT contractor for "Co

Re: [VoiceOps] Looking for a good defense for a bad VoIP provider

2016-03-25 Thread Peter E
bill. On Mar 25, 2016, at 20:10, Peter E wrote: Ouch, that was painful to read. I can't imagine having lived it. When in doubt, dig for Cisco documents because CxO's all know and trust the brand. I'll forward whatever I can find. On Mar 25, 2016, at 19:55, Aaron C. de Bruyn wr

Re: [VoiceOps] Looking for a good defense for a bad VoIP provider

2016-03-25 Thread Peter E
Here's one. It's obviously CM centric, but covers most of the points you're after: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en_us/about/ciscoitatwork/downloads/ciscoitatwork/pdf/Cisco_IT_Case_Study_IP_Telephony_Management.pdf On Mar 25, 2016, at 19:55, Aaron C. de Bruyn wrote: I'll try to make this short:

Re: [VoiceOps] Looking for a good defense for a bad VoIP provider

2016-03-25 Thread Peter E
Here's a decent (short) article about security: http://www.scmagazine.com/simple-best-practices-for-voip/article/207273/ On Mar 25, 2016, at 19:55, Aaron C. de Bruyn wrote: I'll try to make this short: I am an IT contractor for "Company X" that has ~26 offices around the western US. We are p

Re: [VoiceOps] Looking for a good defense for a bad VoIP provider

2016-03-25 Thread Peter E
Here's an article from a system integrators point of view: http://www.scmagazine.com/simple-best-practices-for-voip/article/207273/ On Mar 25, 2016, at 19:55, Aaron C. de Bruyn wrote: I'll try to make this short: I am an IT contractor for "Company X" that has ~26 offices around the western US

Re: [VoiceOps] Virtualized SBC

2016-04-06 Thread Peter E
Agree regarding NFV. It's a pretty big topic. Oracle (Acme) is playing catch-up but also has a solution now. Haven't played with it (or Somus, Sansay) yet so I can't render an opinion. On Apr 6, 2016, at 21:58, Ryan Delgrosso wrote: They have more than a buzzword for this, its a whole movement

Re: [VoiceOps] SS7

2016-04-21 Thread Peter E
It's been a decade since I've touched SS7, and I barely remember what I had for breakfast, so it's like it's all new to me again. From what I read, it sounds like there may be a "proxy" function that can be injected which would bring both endpoints back to you so you can record both legs. The 6

Re: [VoiceOps] Anyone from Bell Canada (landline) on the list?

2016-05-06 Thread Peter E
M BLT.. On May 6, 2016, at 10:39, Ivan Kovacevic wrote: Troubleshooting an RLT issue for a client and would like to short-cut the usual Tier1, Tier2, Tier3 dance, since most of the low level techs don’t know RLT from a BLT (sandwich). Thx. Best Regards, Ivan Kovacevic Vice Pres

[VoiceOps] SMS-800

2016-05-09 Thread Peter E
Hey gang, We currently use a software product called 8MS (http://www.csfcorp.com/products/8ms/) as our interface into SMS-800. Besides the native SMS interface, does anyone use competing products? Opinions?___ VoiceOps mailing list VoiceOps@voiceops.or

Re: [VoiceOps] Speed to Text API

2016-09-14 Thread Peter E
You can use Watson as a service direct from IBM. http://www.ibm.com/watson/developercloud/speech-to-text.html On Sep 14, 2016, at 13:16, Aryn Nakaoka 808.356.2901 wrote: AT&T is shutting down "Watson" Speech to Text API... does anyone have a similar platform? - cost was very inexpensive $

Re: [VoiceOps] Level3 (again)

2016-10-17 Thread Peter E
No issues here (yet). Downdetector shows something is up but not nearly what it looked like 2 weeks ago. On Oct 17, 2016, at 11:26, David Wessell wrote: Is anyone having issues with SIP traffic from Level3 in ATL and Dallas? I'm starting to get reports of audio issues and the MTR's to the L3

Re: [VoiceOps] 503 usage

2016-12-14 Thread Peter E
+1 on this response. We watch our metrics closely so we can measure when something begins to move in the wrong direction. We ultimately had to stop paying attention to 503's because of their casual interpretation of the RFC's intention of 5xx responses. It seems like we need a new "Not Now I Ha

Re: [VoiceOps] TCP Signaling for SIP Signaling

2017-07-16 Thread Peter E
The SIP protocol already has some built in reliability techniques built in (timers, retransmission) for which TCP is usually used. Yes, TCP is a bit more resource intensive due to the TCP overhead. But the biggest reason I prefer UDP is for failover/redundancy. In the event of a system failure/f

Re: [VoiceOps] Can't call 833 numbers from specific rate center via cell phones

2017-08-16 Thread Peter E
We've been battling Verizon on this because they won't terminate 833 for us. They claim it's not part of the product we buy from them. I'm calling B.S. since they accept 844 through 888. Nevertheless, for now they aren't taking it but Level3 does. We're paying extra while we work it out but at l

[VoiceOps] All Circuits Busy?

2017-09-21 Thread Peter E
I realize this is a bit of a fishing expedition, but is anyone seeing an recent increase of all circuits busy conditions over the last week or know of any PSTN trunk capacity problems? Unfortunately, I can't be more specific because we are seeing an uptick but doesn't seem isolated to any one o

Re: [VoiceOps] All Circuits Busy?

2017-09-21 Thread Peter E
Not sure what that means but I'm LOL'ing. On Sep 21, 2017, at 15:36, Alex Balashov wrote: On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 03:31:45PM -0400, Peter E wrote: > I realize this is a bit of a fishing expedition, but is anyone seeing > an recent increase of all circuits busy conditions ov

Re: [VoiceOps] Current state of the LCR art

2018-09-06 Thread Peter E
I agree with Ryan and Alex. Your ROI on an LCR platform will be long, and Thinq is a good choice. On Sep 6, 2018, at 10:02, Dave Sill wrote: All, I’m interested in learning about current best practices regarding LCR in the CLEC context (~2M minutes / month of LD traffic). What software/v