November 2015 - 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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Upcoming Fees for Text Enabled Telephone Numbers (Bandwidth.com)
by beckman＠angryox.com Dec. 15, 2015

Dec. 15, 2015

So I got this today from Bandwidth.com. A quick Google search yields no announcements or news that I can see. A call to Bandwidth got me zero information about how much this new "fee" will be on each number. Anybody have any more in-depth information about this? Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 14:43:24 Subject: Upcoming Fees for Text Enabled Telephone Numbers Valued Bandwidth SMS / Messaging Customers, We want to take this opportunity to inform you of some changes taking place in the SMS messaging industry. These changes will impact the fees associated with your account. The messaging industry is implementing a new monthly subscription fee for each text-enabled number. These fees will be issued by central registries (NetNumber and Somos (formerly SMS/800)) to which carriers and messaging providers (including Bandwidth) send records for message routing purposes. We anticipate that these central registries will begin invoicing Bandwidth for these monthly fees as soon as January 2016. Bandwidth is developing tools (GUI and API) to empower our customers to manage these costs by enabling or disabling messaging based upon individual telephone numbers. When Bandwidth deploys these tools, we will also begin to apply the appropriate monthly fee associated with messaging services. In preparation for these changes, please contact Bandwidth at xxx-xxx-xxxx by 11/20/2015, so we can provide you additional information and applicable paperwork, if any, for this new service. Thank you for your business,Bandwidth --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Beckman Internet Guy beckman at angryox.com http://www.angryox.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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White Label Metaswitch
by colton.conor＠gmail.com Dec. 3, 2015

Dec. 3, 2015

Who provides a white labeled hosted Metaswitch offering? I know there are tons of wholesale Broadsoft shops, but I am not aware of an established Metaswitch shop that has an white label program.

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Homer vs VoIPMonitor
by lorenzo.mangani＠gmail.com Dec. 2, 2015

Dec. 2, 2015

Interesting thread! I'm one of the authors of Homer and PCAPture, just dropping in to extend the subject with more details for those interested and by invite of some of our users on the list. First of all Homer is free and fully open-source, while VoipMonitor is a paid application and should be best compared with our commercial product PCAPture (http://pcapture.com) which provides advanced features and support for multiple signaling protocols with programmable correlation, passive RTP Analysis agents with pseudo-MOS, RTCP-XT and RTP-Stats collection, Injection of arbitrary rows (read syslog or CDRs, QoS) with a correlation IDs, Geo-Location, Fraud Detection with LCR/ENUM backend, Lawful Interception and much more in terms of scalability and geo-redundancy - All while retaining full compatibility with agents using the encapsulation protocol HEP/EEP which is natively supported in Kamailio, OpenSIPS, Asterisk, Freeswitch as well as tools such as sipgrep, sngrep and nprobe making our solution quite transparent to integrate with or without port spanning/mirroring when needed (read cloud) and able to fetch key internal data from the platforms it taps natively. This being said - Homer delivers plenty of value and simply addresses media monitoring differently without storing and analyzing pcap files, instead relying on external light-weight analyzers sending customizable QoS reports at a fraction of the bandwidth, storage and capex cost, with full recording being an on-demand feature instead of a default. Also our user interfaces and user experiences are radically different in approach and I'm sure each satisfies a different audience, without prejudice. I suggest to give both a try before making a decision ;) I hope this (inevitably biased) extension helps anyone evaluating their options more clearly, our team is always available to answer any questions! Kind Regards, Lorenzo Mangani HOMER DEV TEAM QXIP - Network Engineering http://qxip.net

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Homer vs VoIPMonitor
by colton.conor＠gmail.com Nov. 26, 2015

Nov. 26, 2015

What are the differences between these two applications? I know homer is free and opensource, and VoIPMonitor is a paid application. Besides that what is the difference? Is there anything else out there for monitoring VoIP?

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Wholesale MMS Providers
by colton.conor＠gmail.com Nov. 24, 2015

Nov. 24, 2015

Who provides DID's that are SMS AND MMS enabled? What is the standard protocol for receiving and sending MMS messages? I know for SMS the protocol is SMPP. It looks like bandwidth.com lists MMS on their website, but I am not sure if that is available yet.

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White Label VOIP Platform, Broadsoft, Meta, etc
by colton.conor＠gmail.com Nov. 23, 2015

Nov. 23, 2015

I was not impressed with Alianza. They did not support newer features from what I remembered. On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Daniel Corbe <dcorbe at hammerfiber.com> wrote: > > I'm actually in the same boat as the OP. We *almost* signed a deal with > Alianza until they told us what their interconnect costs are. > > Our billing system is a hodgepodge of crap. Long story short, we'd be > looking to take a billing feed in RADIUS or Diamater format. If that's > not possible, we'd take an API-exported billing feed of some sort as > well. > > I'd be interested in hearing a sales pitch any time this week. > > -Daniel > > Colton Conor <colton.conor at gmail.com> writes: > > > What billing system are you using and wish to integrate with? > > > > On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Jeremy Swiler < > jswiler at rcibroadband.com> wrote: > > > > We are searching for a new wholesale Broadworks provider and I am > reaching out to this list for > > suggestions. One requirement that we have is that we can retain > control of at least the Origination > > provider, we have many DID numbers and believe it would be too > costly to port the numbers, it would be > > nice to also be able to control E911 providers and Termination, but > it is not required. Another > > requirement is native API access for provisioning from our billing > system. We do a mixture of residential > > and commercial HPBX. We are not completely tied to Broadsoft at this > time, but it must be a solution that > > meets our basic requirements and supports both residential and > business/enterprise customers on HPBX. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > VoiceOps mailing list > > VoiceOps at voiceops.org > > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops > > > > _______________________________________________ > > VoiceOps mailing list > > VoiceOps at voiceops.org > > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops >

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White Label VOIP Platform, Broadsoft, Meta, etc
by jswiler＠rcibroadband.com Nov. 23, 2015

Nov. 23, 2015

We are searching for a new wholesale Broadworks provider and I am reaching out to this list for suggestions. One requirement that we have is that we can retain control of at least the Origination provider, we have many DID numbers and believe it would be too costly to port the numbers, it would be nice to also be able to control E911 providers and Termination, but it is not required. Another requirement is native API access for provisioning from our billing system. We do a mixture of residential and commercial HPBX. We are not completely tied to Broadsoft at this time, but it must be a solution that meets our basic requirements and supports both residential and business/enterprise customers on HPBX.

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2015 Softswitch
by colton.conor＠gmail.com Nov. 21, 2015

Nov. 21, 2015

I am still on the search for a 2015 grade multi-tenant soft-switch. Something that can compete with Vonage Business, Switch.co, and other newer innovative phone services. Here are the requirements I am looking for, so if anyone knows of something that fits this bill please let me know: 1. Has the ability to support SMS and MMS already. I am tired of so many softswitch vendors saying they are adding SMS or MMS as a coming soon item. It is 2015 people. SMS has been around since as long as I can remember. Most of the large wholesalers (bandwidth.com, Level3) support SMS, and some are supporting MMS. Not only should the softswitch support it, but they should have some way to allow the user to send and view these messages. 2. Supports call recording on both the inbound and outbound side. Should be able to see call recording through the web interface. Web interface for overall platform should be user friendly, and hopefully HTML5 based. 3. Supports Music on hold where you can upload multiple files. It can play these files in random order like a radio station. 4. Supports the OPUS codec and VP8 for WebRTC capabilities. Hopefully already has WebRTC capabilities. 5. Has a device provisioner where we can modify the XML files for each device at the global, group, or seat level. So many of our customers have special needs, and a one size fits all device template simply will not cut it. We should be able to reboot phones remotely, and push firmware. 6. Built in faxing support. 7. Voice Quality Monitoring built in. Should show MOS scores, Jitter, Packet Loss, for each call through the platform. 8. Busy Lamp field integration. 9. Some sort for mobile integration (beyond just call forwarding) for mobile employees who don't want a desk phone. This can be apps for smartphones, or something else. Most vendors say well our softswitch is SIP compliant so you can use the 1000's of apps that support SIP already. That will not cut it. 10. All the advanced features one would expect out of any modern hosted PBX offering. Auto attendants, call forwarding, time of day rules, voicemail to email, etc.. Does this simply not exist and I am asking for too much? Each of these are things my clients are requesting for.

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Preventing random SIP connections to handsets
by caalvarez＠gmail.com Nov. 21, 2015

Nov. 21, 2015

We're starting to see customers who get random arbitrary ringing caused by a random connection attempt from the internet. Most of our customers have Cisco routers with full-cone NAT, so it's easy to do that. We don't reinvite handsets, we proxy the media, so we've considered using restricted NAT instead. If we can figure out how, we can't find any documentation on how to do it, and don't have a response to our Cisco TAC case on it yet. But I figured I'd ask if others have come up with better solutions. I know there are a few authentication options in the phones themselves, but they seem to vary greatly by vendor and even by model. I like to do things as simply and system-wide as possible. We primarily sell Grandstream, and we support Cisco/Linksys SPA as well as Polycom IP series (not VVX). We're an Asterisk-based hosted service provider.

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