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Subject: Becoming a VoIP / DID provider
Category: Computers > Hardware
Asked by: rblackstone-ga
List Price: $30.00
Posted: 23 Mar 2005 17:00 PST
Expires: 22 Apr 2005 18:00 PDT
Question ID: 499433
I am looking to build a new VoIP service that requires me to allocate
one phone number to each user, similarly to how many companies in the
"unified inbox" space do today (e.g. ureach.com, efax.com,
ringcentral.com). In order to allocate one phone number for each
customer, I obviously need to acquire phone lines, "provision" them in
some fashion, and connect them to my VoIP system, so that any caller
in the PSTN can reach that number.  I have learned that I can "rent"
pre-provisioned phone lines from VoIP providers such as VoicePulse.com
(who call themselves "DID providers"), who not only acquire the lines
directly from the source, but also take care of connecting those lines
to a SIP or IAX device on my end (such as an Asterisx VoIP PBX).

What I would like to know is how to bypass a DID provider, and in
essence become a DID provider myself, so I don't have to pay somebody
like VoicePulse for this provisioning service.

My questions are: 

1) Who do I go to in order to "purchase" or "rent" phone numbers
directly from the source (whoever the source is)?

2) What does the process of provisioning these phone lines (i.e.
connect them to the PSTN and effectively become a DID provider) entail
in terms of infrastructure?
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Subject: Re: Becoming a VoIP / DID provider
From: noeledge-ga on 26 Mar 2005 02:45 PST
 
Maybe this will help you, infromation I found on
http://teamtelco.com/internetphonevoip/eng/ you can click on Providers
Names and browse.
Subject: Re: Becoming a VoIP / DID provider
From: kevindscott-ga on 03 Apr 2005 20:56 PDT
 
Get a T1 for 21 lines, or a T3 for 600 lines (I believe its 600 or
close to it) from your local Telco.
Go to the following website for hardware to hookup the lines to Asterisk
http://www.digium.com/

Hope this helps.
Subject: Re: Becoming a VoIP / DID provider
From: kevindscott-ga on 06 Apr 2005 05:41 PDT
 
What I forgot to mention, is that you can provision more DID's then
you have lines, you can for example, have 50 DID's on a single T1.

This is how I did itwhen setting up VOIP service for another company I
was working for.

One more thing, I had a case of bad typing, and entered 21 instead of
24 for the number of lines on a T1,  should be 24.

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