December 2015 - VoiceOps - lists.voiceops.org

Reliable Virtual Fax Provider Wholesale
by beckman＠angryox.com Dec. 7, 2015

Dec. 7, 2015

I'm looking for recommendations for a Virtual Fax Wholesale provider who owns their own systems (not a reseller of someone else's service), is reliable, responsive and smashingly brilliant, and has an API so I can resell their services. And has a pay-per-page model, not a X number of pages included per month. Beckman --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Beckman Internet Guy beckman at angryox.com http://www.angryox.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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HPBX over ADSL
by avorlando＠yahoo.com Dec. 6, 2015

Dec. 6, 2015

Is anyone having success deploying HPBX over DSL? ?Not service providers that own the plant but those of you using another providers DSL. ?Have you been successful? ?If so what were the engineering guidelines you used? ?What were the tolerances you used? ?Any feedback would be very welcomed.

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USF and Minimum Billing
by beckman＠angryox.com Dec. 5, 2015

Dec. 5, 2015

Hey Folks -- I've got a carrier to which I've made a minimum commitment. I didn't get around to getting my spend up to the commit, and when my contract renewed, they billed me a minimum commit fee. Understandable, and I'm fine paying it. I didn't get anything for it -- zero telecom-related services. However, they also charged the USF percentage on the minimum fee. The Language from the FCC leads me to believe that this carrier's assessment of the USF on minimum billing is incorrect and illegal, as that fee is not interstate nor international end-user revenues. For specific detail, FCC Form 499-Q item 115 clearly states that the USF is to be taxed on: "Telecommunications provided to other universal service contributors for resale as telecommunications or as interconnected VoIP" The minimum fee is not telecommunications. Additionally Form 499-A for Line 418 states: "Line 418. ? Other revenues that should not be reported in the contribution bases; Non-interconnected VoIP Revenues. Line 418 should include all non-telecommunications service revenues on the filer?s books, as well as some revenues that are derived from telecommunications-related functions, but that should not be included in the universal service or other fund contribution bases. For example, information services offering a capability for generating, acquiring, storing, transforming, processing, retrieving, utilizing, or making available information via telecommunications are not included in the universal service or other fund contribution bases." Anyone else experience this? Or have any background? I do not believe the carrier should charge me nor pay the FCC the USF on non-telecom fees. Any Telecom lawyers out there? Beckman --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Beckman Internet Guy beckman at angryox.com http://www.angryox.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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"West" (humor)
by paul＠timmins.net Dec. 4, 2015

Dec. 4, 2015

Intrado announced they are rebranding to "West" today: http://www.intrado.com/events/OneWest/911Enable/?utm_source=iContact&utm_me… <http://www.intrado.com/events/OneWest/911Enable/?utm_source=iContact&utm_me…> I made this fake marketing poster for them in honor of their new brand: http://www.telcodata.us/~paul/911enable-intrado-west.jpg <http://www.telcodata.us/~paul/911enable-intrado-west.jpg> -Paul

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VoIP Service Providers Market Research report
by shripald＠gmail.com Dec. 3, 2015

Dec. 3, 2015

Hello all, I recently downloaded a market research report from Voiplogic. I'm sure that some of you know that they are a wholesale application service provider that sells class 4 and 5 services to service providers. I found the report pretty enlightening (and free). You just need to take a survey to get it. I would be interested to see what others in this group think about the state of Hosted PBX, UC, UCaaS, etc. Some of the major bullet points are listed in VoipLogic's press release: http://www.voiplogic.com/dec-1-2015-2015-voip-service-providers-market-rese… along with the link to the survey. I would like to actually see what Peter Rad, thinks of the sales stuff in the report. In particular this statement: *"Low touch sales methods ? primarily web-based selling ? are dropping while high touch sales methods such as Direct and through Value-Added Resellers ? are growing. This is, in turn, increases the cost of customer acquisition. That Service Providers appear to perceive value from the personal assistance of direct sales and customer service support may be explained by the increasing complexity of Unified Communication and Collaboration."* I'm wondering if others see the same trend? it just seems to go against another figure in the report that states that price is the most important factor in sales and marketing success. I don't see how you can be a solution sales organization and still think that price is the most important thing. anyway, it was by and large good read with a lot of information. Shri

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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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SIP provider that will route to free conference services
by evan＠corpwest.com Dec. 3, 2015

Dec. 3, 2015

We have a few customers who need to reach free conference call services and none of our current carriers will route the calls. Are there any providers out there that will take these calls via SIP? We are happy to pay a fair price per minute if somebody will take it. -Evan

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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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