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I'm wondering if any other Asterisk users have a recommendation for a reliable SIP Trunk provider that supports Asterisk and offers decent support. I've worked with Coredial, Broadvox, and Broadvoice and have had some bad experiences with each of these providers. Broadvoice offers low cost service, however I have constant issues with Broadvoice blocking my customers due to Asterisk

The ISP giving net access at our office has installed a 24 port CISCO 2950 switch in our server room. I can buy 24 connections from them and get 12Mbps of Upload but each individual connection is restricted to 512Kbps. Currently we have requirement of 20 simulataneous calls so we purchased 4 connections from the ISP. Giving us a total of 2 Mbps of upload b/w but spread over 4 different connections

I need to provide a 80 people office with VOIP. I want to commit to one vendor Polycom or Aastra. Price of the phones is not a factor in the decision. The quality of the phones is the factor. Some of the features that I am evaluating on are: (arranged in order of priority) 1. Sound quality 2. complete product line with conference phone and receptionist phone (not on Aastra) 3. cordless (not on

I called bandwidth.com to buy a sip line from them for $30 a month. But they said they will not sell me a sip line since the address on the account is Citrus Heights CA and they can not provide services in that area. On asking further the person clarified that there is no e911 service available in the 916 area code for bandwidth.com But other providers like www.broadvoice.com are able to provide

I'm pretty new to this whole Asterisk system & VoIP thing, but being a programmer by trade the complexity didn't scare me off (at least not yet)... I have setup an Asterisk system for my home & home office. My wife & I run two separate businesses from home, and we have a general family home phone line as well. The cost of all these lines with analog carriers was getting

I need to setup incoming (over an 800 number and some local DID's) and outgoing phone calls (all over the country) with an Asterisk server. This asterisk server has 20 Polycom 430 phones connecting to it. I need the best possible SIP provider out there. I have tried http://www.nufone.net and http://www.broadvoice.com and they do not even come close to the expected quality. Does AT&T

Asterisk Users, Has anybody use Voicepulse Connect for Asterisk? I am trying to cover all my bases because in the past, I got burned with poor quality of service, along with failed DTMF tones with 3 different SIP Providers (Vitelity, Broadvoice, and Teliax). I am running Asterisk 1.2.13 on the Debian Etch system, using the SIP protocol. Any insights would be great. Thanks. -John

Perhaps someone else has had this issue. I currently have BroadVoice as my SIP provider with two phone numbers. The first number is my primary local number; the second is an 877 toll-free number. The issue is with the IVR abilities. When calling the primary number you can press 200 at the main menu and receive my extension. When calling the 877 number, 200 will result in ?that option is invalid?

I had my asterisk configuration working very well with broadvoice, but it stopped working this afternoon. I plugged the Cisco 7960 phone I used for my origional signup (just a few days before they offered generic BYOD) and it works fine. I did notice it seems to do all of its comunication through proxy.broadvoice.com (I used tcpdump). I have never contacted broadvoice about using asterisk

I've been looking for a good iax or sip <==> ptsn provider. Someone with very low cost usa calling and can offer incoming ptsn connections in most markets. The only decent providers I could find were iconnecthere and nufone. Has anyone found someone that really stood out? Matt Hohman New Heights Church http://www.newheights.org 7913 NE 58th Ave. Vancouver, WA 98665 Office:

Thanks for the reply. Forgive me for being na?ve, however have jumped in to this asterisk project at work due to some circumstances beyond my control and I don't know a lot about carriers and how this all works. I am figuring it out, but it's a lot of trial by fire. As far as I know, we only use 1 carrier for our system. We have a PRI from NuVox and we use 7 channels for our asterisk

Does anyone have any useful contact information for Broadvoice? I've been unable to call Argentina from my Broadvoice line for almost a month now. Their techs keep telling me they're "looking into it" but I get no real information. I've had several other tickets open for almost 8 months now. I called their PR company this morning and apparently they dropped Broadvoice

Has anybody ever integrated Skype with Asterisk? If you have, which software would you recommend to accomplish such a task? ChanSkype? And how reliable are the calls? Did the DTMF tones work? Thanks in advance. _________________________________________________________________ Discover sweet stuff waiting for you at the Messenger Cafe.? Claim your treat today!

Whenever we call IBM, the call counter on the phone never starts and in the CLI the zap channel never gets the answered signal from the PRI. See below. -- Executing Dial("SIP/5933-645d", "Zap/g1/18004267378") in new stack -- Requested transfer capability: 0x00 - SPEECH -- Called g1/18004267378 At this point, I am in IBM's menu system. However the call never

Hi I believe this is due to the way US phone systems work, however I'm going to ask anyway. In the UK there are several providers who provide national rate PSTN => Voip gateways which are free to receive calls on, (for the recipient), the caller pays the cost of calling. E.g 0844 0870 etc. I am looking for a US provier who offers the same sort of system. I don't call the US but I

Hello, I have been researching Asterisk and have a few questions. Is it possible to allow users to only call certain area codes? Reason for this is that the plan from BroadVoice allows unlimited calling to certain countries. Any country outside of this plan would be charged on a per minute basis and I am trying to avoid that. Another question is if there is a way to distinguish a land line

When I call meetme: exten => 1000,1,Answer exten => 1000,n,Meetme(|||d) Asterisk is complaing with: -- Executing Answer("IAX2/xxx.yyy.142.204:4569-2", "") in new stack -- Executing MeetMe("IAX2/xxx.yyy.142.204:4569-2", "|||d") in new stack -- Playing 'conf-getconfno' (language 'en') Warning, flexible rate not

Hello, I'm running Asterisk and using VoicePulse for IAX termination. I would like to have toll-free number assigned to my asterisk, any hints where I can get this number? VoicePulse does not offer toll-free numbers. Thanks, David

Hi List I need a quality US 800 DID over IAX for my Asterisk server, preferably one that doesn't cost the earth. Any suggestions please? Thanks -- Chris Blunt Entropy IT Ltd -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20061220/4919f3cb/attachment.htm

Hi, Do the callers in USA dialling from USA Telco lines always have to prefix the CITY/AREA code with "1" in order To successfully make a call to other USA destinations? ---- I have not been to USA (yet) :) Ta SJ