Business Class VOIP termination

clarkie666 — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:24:43 -0800

Can anyone recommend business class VOIP termination that is not a fully hosted solution by the terminating company? So I am pretty new to this area but boy have I learned a lot in the last month. Our small business (50 users, 3 sites) was previously going with a fully hosted VOIP solution but following a full cost analysis the price difference between this and hosting our own was huge which is leading us down the Switchvox route.

We are planning on initially maintaining our 7 inbound analog lines for origination, however the missing link is VOIP termination to the PSTN for our outbound calls. Unfortunately it is difficult to evaluate VOIP service providers since the heavyweight ones provide their own hosted VOIP solutions (and don't seem to offer wholesale termination without using their hardware) and the wholesale providers range from fly-by-nights to what I am sure are reliable companies - but it is hard to tell the difference. Posts to VOIP forums are peppered with sales reps giving glowing recommendations of their own companies.

Can anyone recommend one? How much influence does the service provider have on overall quality and is it possible to buy termination over a private network? Bonus if you are working with a Switchvox or Astrisk system. Bonus bonus for reliable international calling.

Thanks much!

Who is your usenet provider, and do you like them?

squirrel — Mon, 05 Jul 2004 21:29:26 -0800

Who is your usenet provider, and do you like them? Retention, uptime, number of groups, logless access... I know that milage varies according to what one is looking for in a news server, but what usenet providers have you had good and bad experiences with? (More) I used 100proofnews for a year because they had a good price ($8.95/mo), had no download limit(!) and lots of groups. Their problems, predictably, were poor uptime and retention.

I use usenet mostly for the mp3 binaries groups (strictly for evaluation purposes, of course), and nothing burns my biscuits like finding a great album posted with just a few of each song's parts missing because the server expired them.

I'm looking for a news server that has a reasonable download limit, access to many groups, and has a good history of uptime. A provider that doesn't keep logs is a plus, (*adjusts tinfoil hat*).

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Business Class VOIP termination

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