More than 60% of our outbound calls are now to mobiles, so the time has come to whack in a gsm channel bank. Does anyone have any preference of bank ? Do you use a PRI or VOIP connection from the bank to asterisk ? Real-world experiences are sooooo much better than marketing blurb ;) We currently have a TE412P with a free socket, so we have a choice either way. I am looking for up to 30 sims to be connected, and we are based in the UK. Any advice is gratefully received. Thanks Julian ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________
Portech has an excellent line of SIP-CDMA/GSM gateway products. We use their MV-378 for GSM and MV-372 for CDMA. We also have deployed them to quite a number of our customers with no issues. Jeff Johnson Director of Operations NeturallySpeaking, LLC (813) 774-3570 Direct (866) 448-0038 Toll Free (813) 569-2366 Fax sip://jjohnson at neturallyspeaking.com http://www.neturallyspeaking.com -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Julian Lyndon-Smith Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 7:54 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: [asterisk-users] GSM / 3g channel bank More than 60% of our outbound calls are now to mobiles, so the time has come to whack in a gsm channel bank. Does anyone have any preference of bank ? Do you use a PRI or VOIP connection from the bank to asterisk ? Real-world experiences are sooooo much better than marketing blurb ;) We currently have a TE412P with a free socket, so we have a choice either way. I am looking for up to 30 sims to be connected, and we are based in the UK. Any advice is gratefully received. Thanks Julian ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.173 / Virus Database: 270.7.5/1700 - Release Date: 9/30/2008 11:03 AM
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 12:53:41PM +0100, Julian Lyndon-Smith wrote:> More than 60% of our outbound calls are now to mobiles, so the time has > come to whack in a gsm channel bank. > Does anyone have any preference of bank ? Do you use a PRI or VOIP > connection from the bank to asterisk ? Real-world experiences are sooooo > much better than marketing blurb ;) > We currently have a TE412P with a free socket, so we have a choice > either way. I am looking for up to 30 sims to be connected, and we are > based in the UK. > Any advice is gratefully received.Are you providing any kind of service to 3rd parties? If so you are NOT allowed to run a GSM gateway. If it's purely your own traffic i.e. say company PBX to mobile traffic then it is allowed. Ofcom ruled on this a while back. Saying that I've used a Portech GSM gateway on SIP and it works well. Steve -- NetTek Ltd UK mob +44 7775 755503 UK +44 20 7993 2612 / US +1 310 857 7715 / Fax +44 20 7483 2455 Skype/GoogleTalk/AIM/Gizmo/Mac stevekennedyuk / MSN steve at gbnet.net Euro Tech News Blog http://eurotechnews.blogspot.com
If you are after something budget type we got a 32 SIM with only 8 active sims at anyone time so you can use each sim in term and effectively use up all the free miuntes, If you are interested please visit cyber-telecom.net -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Julian Lyndon-Smith Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 7:54 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: [asterisk-users] GSM / 3g channel bank More than 60% of our outbound calls are now to mobiles, so the time has come to whack in a gsm channel bank. Does anyone have any preference of bank ? Do you use a PRI or VOIP connection from the bank to asterisk ? Real-world experiences are sooooo much better than marketing blurb ;) We currently have a TE412P with a free socket, so we have a choice either way. I am looking for up to 30 sims to be connected, and we are based in the UK. Any advice is gratefully received. Thanks Julian ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users