John, We're a small business and we use Burlington Telecom<http://www.burlingtontelecom.net/>(municipal fiber). Our current plan is 2 Mbps symmetrical but they offer up to 8 Mbps symmetrical. We only have one public IP address but my guess is you could get more. I have no complaints with Burlington Telecom, the service has worked great. We run our VoIP phones over this connection as well. We get our SIP hosting, PSTN gateway, and hosted PBX through Junction Networks <http://www.junctionnetworks.com/> (for any other small business out there I'd highly recommend checking them out). Burlington Telecom offers VoIP but they're more interested in offering POTS (it ends up running digitally over fiber but your interface is POTS) and they simply can't match the range of services and flexibility that Junction Networks provides. One of the nice things about Junction Networks is that, unlike other VoIP providers, you get unlimited lines. I've done the math and we could run somewhere between 20 and 30 simultaneous phone calls on our bandwidth if we ever wanted to (not that we'd ever have a reason to do that).
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:02 AM, John Gratton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Everybody, > > I read a lot on the VAGUE list, but have not actually posted in a very long > time. > > In light of the Level 3 issues that have been occurring for the past couple > of months I have been asked to informally ask people I know in the IT world > their opinion of different local ISP's. I thought I may be able to do some > one stop shopping here @ VAGUE to see what ISP's people are using at the > companies they work for and what their opinions are. If any of you would > like to recommend an ISP, I will take that as well. > > Here is some info about our current service at the company that I work for: > > Current ISP: Level 3 > Type of Service: Fractional T1 > Number of Public IP's: 32 but only using 3 > Data Bandwidth: 768Kbps > Phone: 16 lines (Part of the T1) > We have long distance through them as well > > > I appreciate any responses that any of you can provide to my inquiry. > > Thank you, > > John Gratton > -- http://bradley-holt.blogspot.com/
