asterisk users - Sep 2005 - goiax expanded with free us domestic calling

I launched www.goiax.com last week, which is intended to promote the use 
of IAX as a free and open source alternative to products like skype. 
There is no charge for the service.  Right now I have free outbound to 
united states toll-free and us domestic numbers working.

Currently the site hands out a virtual 87820-xxxxxxx number but I intend 
to add the ability to get a free United States DID [possibly other 
countries as well] as well.

Please test it out.  You can use an IAXy, asterisk, or an IAX softphone 
like iaxcomm.

I intend to also modify asterisk to allow some QoS checking to avoid the 
problems IaxTel had with scalability.  I would like some developer input 
on this.  My idea right now is to add an app to asterisk that listens on 
a port for a status packet that will be sent from a softphone or 
IAX-compatible device.  Asterisk would then reply with a packet that 
would contain current CPU load, current mem load, and number of channels 
up at that point.  I would also like to have the asterisk app know the 
status of other IAX servers on that "network" and be able to reply
with
the IP address of the "best" available server at that time.

Can I ask how you are providing calls to us domestic numbers for free?

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Steven

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"Matthew Simpson" <matthew@txlink.net> wrote in message 
news:43344588.4030305@txlink.net...
>I launched www.goiax.com last week, which is intended to promote the use of 
>IAX as a free and open source alternative to products like skype. There is 
>no charge for the service.  Right now I have free outbound to united states 
>toll-free and us domestic numbers working.
>
> Currently the site hands out a virtual 87820-xxxxxxx number but I intend 
> to add the ability to get a free United States DID [possibly other 
> countries as well] as well.
>
> Please test it out.  You can use an IAXy, asterisk, or an IAX softphone 
> like iaxcomm.
>
> I intend to also modify asterisk to allow some QoS checking to avoid the 
> problems IaxTel had with scalability.  I would like some developer input 
> on this.  My idea right now is to add an app to asterisk that listens on a 
> port for a status packet that will be sent from a softphone or 
> IAX-compatible device.  Asterisk would then reply with a packet that would 
> contain current CPU load, current mem load, and number of channels up at 
> that point.  I would also like to have the asterisk app know the status of 
> other IAX servers on that "network" and be able to reply with the
IP
> address of the "best" available server at that time.
>
>
>
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Steven wrote:
> Can I ask how you are providing calls to us domestic numbers for free?
> 
goiax.com is backed by TxLink [www.txlink.net].  We terminate a lot of 
minutes.

> > Can I ask how you are providing calls to us domestic numbers for free?
> >
>
> goiax.com is backed by TxLink [www.txlink.net].  We terminate a lot of
> minutes.
Matt:

That first logo ( companylogo / www.webaddresshere.com ) on the
website could use some work :) but the service works great!! Thanks!

-Andy

Joe Stewart wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 11:12:24AM -0700, Matthew Simpson wrote:
> 
>>I launched www.goiax.com last week, which is intended to promote the use
>>of IAX as a free and open source alternative to products like skype. 
>>There is no charge for the service.  Right now I have free outbound to 
>>united states toll-free and us domestic numbers working.
>>
> 
> 
> Thank you very much for setting up this service.
> 
> I've successfully made calls, but unlike my other iax trunks the 
> callerid isn't passed on so the call comes in from areacode 202.
> Any hints to get this working?
The caller ID thing is intended behavior.  Passing the 87820-xxxxxxx 
number doesn't usually show up so it will come up as the 202 number.
> 
> 
>>Currently the site hands out a virtual 87820-xxxxxxx number but I intend
>>to add the ability to get a free United States DID [possibly other 
>>countries as well] as well.
>>
>>Please test it out.  You can use an IAXy, asterisk, or an IAX softphone 
>>like iaxcomm.
>>
> 
> 
> I've only used asterisk.  If I have a chance I'll try a softphone.
> 
> 
> Any chance of g729?  I know that since this is iax your options would be 
> more limited as far as licensing.
GSM is available. It takes up far less CPU than G729 and is about equal 
in quality and bandwidth usage.
> 
> just wanted to send you a note and say thanks,
> 
> Joe
> 
>