> > >On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 14:12 -0400, Joly, Robert (CAR:9D30) wrote: >> >> Joe works of a single sipXecs, multi-branch business and is a user based >> out of Ottawa. He is part of the 'Ottawa' location which is configured >> to route PSTN calls using gateways located in Ottawa. He is traveling >> for two days to the Calgary to meet with a partner. Although he will >> not be at that site, Joe knows that the business he works for has a >> branch office in Calgary. Joe has a softphone on his laptop and is >> expecting to have to make numerous Calgary-local calls. For the duration >> of his stay in Calgary he would like to be able to call the business >> across the street without having to make a long-distance call via the >> Ottawa-based gateways. Instead, he would prefer making local calls >> using his company's Calgary gateway facilities therefore saving on long >> distance charges. Fortunately, when the company sent him his travel >> approval confirmation, it included a cost-cutting tip on how to make >> local calls from the various sites that the company has. Using the >> right location code, he can make local calls in Calgary. He can also >> make local calls in the Ottawa region (calling his wife for example) by >> dialing as though he was sitting at his Ottawa desk. > >A more specific comment on this scenario.... > >Suppose Joe is at home in Ottawa and dials a number in Calgary... don't >we want the Calgary gateway to be used in this case anyway? > >I think that the multi-site location-based gateway selection should not >override any least-cost routing rules: essentially it is for local >calling in the area of the home site. The goal is to allow both Ottawa >and Calgary to each use their own local gateway (to minimize WAN traffic >and dependencies) _when_no_cost_ is incurred by doing so. >
No, I disagree. We talked about this and this defeats the whole purpose of the requested feature. Cost is not the driving factor, at least not for domestic calls anymore. The purpose is to give the admin a choice to either use least-cost routing based on destination called (we do that today), or to use source routing based on where the call originates to save WAN bandwidth. --martin _______________________________________________ sipx-dev mailing list [email protected] List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-dev Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-dev
