asterisk users - Sep 2007 - Another State Of The Punctuation Mark question - Vonage

There was a flurry of "Vonage is going to unlock SIP" activity last
year; did anything productive ever come of it?

Are *you* using your Vonage lines directly into Asterisk?

In lieu of that, for a 4 line small business that doesn't need to pay
Vonage $150 a month, who?  Broadvoice?  Someone else?

I'm a touch unimpressed with the fact that BV's website *won't quote
you BYOD pricing* until you actually place the damn order -- or so it
appears to my eyes.

727.

Cheers,
-- jra
-- 
Jay R. Ashworth                   Baylink                      jra at
baylink.com
Designer                     The Things I Think                       RFC 2100
Ashworth & Associates     http://baylink.pitas.com                    
'87 e24
St Petersburg FL USA      http://photo.imageinc.us             +1 727 647 1274

Vonage has a "business" offering, but they aren't really
structured to provide business quality support.  I wouldn't use them for a
business.

For several years now, we've used VoicePulse Connect
<http://connect.voicepulse.com/> for our Asterisk IAX and SIP trunks. 
Ravi and KP are both technical guys and know Asterisk extremely well.

--
Eric Chamberlain, CISSP
Chief Technical Officer
Voxilla - http://voxilla.com/
> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
> bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Jay R. Ashworth
> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 5:57 AM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: [asterisk-users] Another State Of The Punctuation Mark question -
> Vonage
> 
> There was a flurry of "Vonage is going to unlock SIP" activity
last
> year; did anything productive ever come of it?
> 
> Are *you* using your Vonage lines directly into Asterisk?
> 
> In lieu of that, for a 4 line small business that doesn't need to pay
> Vonage $150 a month, who?  Broadvoice?  Someone else?
> 
> I'm a touch unimpressed with the fact that BV's website *won't
quote
> you BYOD pricing* until you actually place the damn order -- or so it
> appears to my eyes.
> 
> 727.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- jra
> --
> Jay R. Ashworth                   Baylink
> jra at baylink.com
> Designer                     The Things I Think                       RFC
> 2100
> Ashworth & Associates     http://baylink.pitas.com                    
'87
> e24
> St Petersburg FL USA      http://photo.imageinc.us             +1 727 647
> 1274
> 
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On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 08:56:53AM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth
wrote:
> There was a flurry of "Vonage is going to unlock SIP" activity
last
> year; did anything productive ever come of it?
> 
> Are *you* using your Vonage lines directly into Asterisk?
> 
> In lieu of that, for a 4 line small business that doesn't need to pay
> Vonage $150 a month, who?  Broadvoice?  Someone else?
> 
> I'm a touch unimpressed with the fact that BV's website *won't
quote
> you BYOD pricing* until you actually place the damn order -- or so it
> appears to my eyes.
Broadvoice can't handle multiple lines being billed to the same
account and using the same SIP credentials, which is probably not too
large a deal for a 4 line install, but would quickly become
unmanageable for anything larger.

jeff
> 
> 727.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- jra
> -- 
> Jay R. Ashworth                   Baylink                      jra at
baylink.com
> Designer                     The Things I Think                       RFC
2100
> Ashworth & Associates     http://baylink.pitas.com                    
'87 e24
> St Petersburg FL USA      http://photo.imageinc.us             +1 727 647
1274
> 
-- 
Jeff Bachtel  (root at VPR,TAMU)     http://www.cepheid.org/~jeff
"The sciences, each straining in  [finger jeff at cepheid.org for PGP key]
its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little;" - HPL, TCoC