[TriLUG] VOIP Providers

[Kevin J.]

Moral of the story...never ever move back to Bellsouth. We are in the process of getting off of our Nortel BCM400 that we pay BS $2000/yr. to *ahem* "support". Of course, when I actually needed support, they immediately found 5 different reasons why they couldn't do it today, next week, or even next month. They finally closed the ticket without even letting me know. IF they were to actually try to fix my issue, they assured me, I would need to pay an hourly rate to have the system upgraded to the latest version (about a six-hour process on average they said), throw away my current Juniper Firewall/VPN router because they only supported a specific Cisco VPN router, and pay for "Professional Services" to come out and set up our little BCM400 to do VOIP calls over a VPN. Hhmmm....

Oh, ok, so I guess if I just add a static route to the BCM so it knows where to send the voice packets over the VPN then I can bypass that $5,000 bill then? Gee folks, thanks for nothing. 

So we're now in the process of trading our proprietary Nortel PBX equipment for a non-proprietary full-VOIP solution that will cost less, add more functionality, requires no maintenance...AND we'll get a 4.5Mb MPLS for $500/mo. LESS than what we're currently paying for a dual T1 Frame Relay. Thanks Bellsouth! :)

Kevin
 
Have you F/LOSSed today?



----- Original Message ----
From: Matt Pusateri <mpusateri at wickedtrails.com>
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Friday, June 8, 2007 10:48:03 AM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] VOIP Providers


Be careful of using a voip provider as your main number.  We had an 
issue @work where we had a voip line and later wanted to move it back to 
Bellsouth.  Bellsouth could not or would not port the number over.

Matt P.

OlsonE at aosa.army.mil wrote:
> Wow. I had to let this marinate for a few minutes after I read the
> article. A few questions based off this:
>
> - Does anyone do something like this at home now?
> - Who's your ISP?
> - Do you have any bandwidth issues? (I'm a huge fan of downloading
> ....just for the sake of downloading).
>
> ...I have a huge project for myself once I've moved into my new house
> (around the end of this month). I have this ultimate plan of digitizing
> everything as much as humanly possible... 
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eric
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
> Behalf Of Ron Joffe
> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 9:04 PM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] VOIP Providers
>
> Vitelity.com
>
> Very easy to set up, and they provide the asterisk configuration for
> you. I would recommend utilizing iax versus sip for easier nat, and
> firewall traversal.
>
> On Wednesday 06 June 2007 11:25, Chess Griffin wrote:
>   
>> I am not that knowledgable about voip and sip stuff, but this 
>> discussion of voip and asterisk leads me to a question:  what voip 
>> providers are people using?  Are there any recommendations for 
>> providers that are friendly to those that want to use asterisk or a
>>     
> softphone like Ekiga?
>   
>> Thanks-
>> Chess
>>     

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