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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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