May 2013 - VoiceOps - lists.voiceops.org

Maintenance for Performance Technologies SEGway
by scott＠socket.net May 17, 2017

May 17, 2017

We have been using a set of PTI SEGway x201s with point code emulation for a number of years now. We also have an unlicensed spare in stock. The maintenance contract renewals are due and the two quotes I've received are quite high. I know of at least one other company that has chosen to drop the vendor maintenance and take care of that in-house. I would like to hear from anyone that is currently using SEGways and find out what they chose to do for maintenance. I would also be very interested to hear of any bad experiences from chosing the in-house option. Thanks. Scott Stratman Network Facilities Manager SOCKET 573-999-4376 scott at socket.net 1-800-SOCKET-3 www.socket.net

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Catching alot of attempts at fraud to Israel....
by dthompson＠esi-estech.com May 29, 2013

May 29, 2013

I?m catching a lot of attempts at fraud to Israel has anyone else out there been catching any? Country code is 972. David Thompson Network Services Support Technician (O) 858.357.8794 (F) 858-225-1882 (E) dthompson at esi-estech.com (W) www.esi-estech.com

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Odd "TOS violation" op intercept?
by april＠teliax.com May 26, 2013

May 26, 2013

No, none of my vendors shared the information nor did I find a common thread on my own. The reports subsided mid-week as everyone slowly routed away. The suspects were Google Voice, MagicJack (Ymax), and apparently CenturyLink though that last one would really surprise me. It's issues like these that can make or break my trust with vendors and determine which routing groups, if any, they are placed in. I have some customers who would pull traffic immediately upon receiving such an intercept message, and I can't really fault them for doing so. At the same time, the trouble seemed to be so widespread that the nonchalance some customers and vendors exhibited in dealing with it was kind of refreshing. It was treated as more of a "yup, telecom" moment than Verizon outages.

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Odd "TOS violation" op intercept?
by april＠teliax.com May 25, 2013

May 25, 2013

Hi voiceops, I've had a rash of tickets since Friday from various customers, to varied destinations over multiple vendors where I'm getting a terrible operator intercept/recording, and I'm wondering if anyone else has heard it or knows who is playing it. Recording plays "This call was routed in violation of our terms of service" then asks to record the orig/term and advises to report it to "your phone provider." I haven't found anything definitive, but I also haven't had a lot of time to really dig in... april j.

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Looking for a SIP 48 port FXS gateway&In-Reply-To=<E3318B7A-4C32-44C1-B5BB-C826A4441AD3@gmail.com>
by BillD＠fltg.com May 25, 2013

May 25, 2013

I haven't tried one, but you might check the Grandstream GXW-4248. It seems more reasonably priced than a couple of 24-port units. If you do test it out, please let us know how you like it. -- Bill Doran -- billd at fltg.com

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verizon trouble, eastern region
by David.Hiers＠adp.com May 22, 2013

May 22, 2013

Is anyone having trouble with Verizon dropping SIP packets in the eastern region? We're seeing problems in PA, WV, and VA. Thanks, David This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system.

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Voice performance testing and simulation software
by bmx1955＠gmail.com May 16, 2013

May 16, 2013

Hello Anyone can recommend me a software-based SIP solution to enable automated periodic voice quality testing (RTP) through a VoIP network ? In short, the solution would replicate the customer experience by placing calls on-net from "TEST STATION A" to different DIDs that would each leave through different upstream TSPs and all of the DIDs would ring the same "TEST STATION B". Station "B" can either be on-net or outside and will automatically answer the call and then spit out audio (i.e.: a continuous tone), or it may also enter in a loopback mode and station "A" would simultaneously generate and also detect the presence and integrity of the tone. The solution should log every performance aspects from each test run and also send an alarm on repeated failures for either no-answers or degraded RTP quality like packet loss, jitter or even problems with the expected payload. So far I have seen products from GL communications "RTP Toolbox" that could possibly do it. : http://www.gl.com/rtptoolbox.html I would also be interested in other ways like using open source projects like Freeswitch : http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Misc._Dialplan_Tools_tone_detect I'd appreciate if you can share your experiences for those who have already done that, or simply ideas from anyone else. Thank you, M.B.

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Global Crossing Auto Funds Management (AFM) system
by stagg＠vocalcloud.com May 16, 2013

May 16, 2013

Does anyone have any specific experiences with the Global Crossing now Level 3 Auto Funds Management (AFM) system failing to reject calls when you hit the lower financial limit? Wondering how many people out there have relied on the system to perform as a fail safe mechanism, only to find out that the AFM system failed to reject calls when the balance reached the minimum. I have the vibe that the system either doesn't really exist, doesn't perform as described, or the implementation teams of the past may have failed to implement new accounts using the system correctly. Thanks in advance Stagg

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Parsing VoIP attacker Twitter feed
by joquendo＠e-fensive.net May 15, 2013

May 15, 2013

Sorry had to start a new thread (Thunderbird filters via MS + FreeBSD aren't playing nicely). For those wanting to parse out, this is what I would do if I had to/wanted to capture from the feed: (one liner) wget -qO - http://www.twitter.com/efensive |\ awk '/VoIP/{print $3}'|sed 's:>: :g'|awk '{print $2}' If you wanted to add to say iptables: wget -qO - http://www.twitter.com/efensive |\ awk '/VoIP/{print $3}'|sed 's:>: :g'|sort -u |\ awk '{print "iptables -A INPUT -s "$2" -j DROP"}' Which is a simple iptable rule: iptables -A INPUT -s x.x.x.x -j DROP I run something similar out of my crontabs @ 15 on the hou to parse out unique addresses. I would never bother to use REJECT since it wastes time/resources telling an attacker: "I'm REJECTING this packet" YMMV. The reasoning for grep'ing ('/VoIP/' in awk) is that every once in a while I may babble on, or post say APT (the big bad Chinese/German/Russian boogeyman) threats in my stream as well as malware related hosts/domains as well. This ensures that you only get information pertaining to VoIP based attackers. -- =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ J. Oquendo SGFA, SGFE, C|EH, CNDA, CHFI, OSCP, CPT, RWSP, GREM "Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace" - Dalai Lama 42B0 5A53 6505 6638 44BB 3943 2BF7 D83F 210A 95AF http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x2BF7D83F210A95AF

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Looking for a SIP 48 port FXS gateway
by ssrinivasan＠telesphere.com May 15, 2013

May 15, 2013

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