[182506] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SIP trunking providers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Mon Jul 20 09:38:50 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <201507201321.t6KDLHx0007944@aurora.sol.net>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 06:38:43 -0700
To: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> On Jul 20, 2015, at 06:21 , Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> wrote:
>=20
>> Why not set up a small Asterisk box in a local datacenter and only =
trunk =3D
>> out the non-local calls?
>=20
> And do what with the local calls, then? You're still left with the
> problem of getting calls to and from the PSTN.
>=20
> Not everyone wants to deal with the hassle of dealing with POTS or T1
> gatewaying. In general, it isn't practical to do on a small scale any
> more, especially as one looks forward a few years to the inevitable
> dismantling of the legacy POTS network.
If you=E2=80=99re going to the PSTN, who gives a shit where you do the =
interconnect as
long as its within 100ms.
If most of your calls are VOIP<->VOIP within Chicago, then it makes some =
sense
to set up a box and just send the external calls out to the trunking =
provider where
you no longer really care where they are.
Absent significant network suckage, there=E2=80=99s no place in the =
contiguous US that
isn=E2=80=99t within 100 ms of any other place in the contiguous US =
these days.
Owen
