I'm looking for a SIP carrier that will provide reliable termination of toll free traffic and pass ANI info correctly (this part is important). Also I want it to be free :) Several companies claim to provide this, who's actually using what and are you happy with it? Low volume--currently about 3500 minutes per month. Thanks!
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Robert Johnson <fasterfourier at gmail.com>wrote:
I'm looking for a SIP carrier that will provide reliable termination of toll free traffic and pass ANI info correctly (this part is important). Also I want it to be free :)
Several companies claim to provide this, who's actually using what and are you happy with it?
Low volume--currently about 3500 minutes per month.
I've found that Alcazar Networks free toll free ( tollfree.alcazarnetworks.com) works very reliably for DTMF and ANI. They had 2 outages lately though so the backup routes I've used are free.tollfree4free.com and sip.denetron.com. Both of the others also have reliable DTMF and ANI. Regards, Jared Geiger
+1 to Alcazar Networks as well. They are very responsive and easy to work with. -- This message was painstakingly thumbed out on my mobile, so apologies for brevity, errors, and general sloppiness. Alex Balashov - Principal Evariste Systems LLC 260 Peachtree Street NW Suite 2200 Atlanta, GA 30303 Tel: +1-678-954-0670 Fax: +1-404-961-1892 Web: http://www.evaristesys.com/ On Sep 29, 2011, at 3:02 PM, Jared Geiger <jared at compuwizz.net> wrote:
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Robert Johnson <fasterfourier at gmail.com> wrote: I'm looking for a SIP carrier that will provide reliable termination of toll free traffic and pass ANI info correctly (this part is important). Also I want it to be free :)
Several companies claim to provide this, who's actually using what and are you happy with it?
Low volume--currently about 3500 minutes per month.
I've found that Alcazar Networks free toll free (tollfree.alcazarnetworks.com) works very reliably for DTMF and ANI. They had 2 outages lately though so the backup routes I've used are free.tollfree4free.com and sip.denetron.com. Both of the others also have reliable DTMF and ANI.
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Thanks for the on and offlist responses. I'm giving Alcazar a try. Despite the appearance of their website, their service seems to work quite well so far. Hopefully it continues to do so. On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Alex Balashov <abalashov at evaristesys.com> wrote:
+1 to Alcazar Networks as well. ?They are very responsive and easy to work with.
-- This message was painstakingly thumbed out on my mobile, so apologies for brevity, errors, and general sloppiness. Alex Balashov - Principal Evariste Systems LLC 260 Peachtree Street NW Suite 2200 Atlanta, GA 30303 Tel: +1-678-954-0670 Fax: +1-404-961-1892 Web: http://www.evaristesys.com/ On Sep 29, 2011, at 3:02 PM, Jared Geiger <jared at compuwizz.net> wrote:
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Robert Johnson <fasterfourier at gmail.com> wrote:
I'm looking for a SIP carrier that will provide reliable termination of toll free traffic and pass ANI info correctly (this part is important). Also I want it to be free :)
Several companies claim to provide this, who's actually using what and are you happy with it?
Low volume--currently about 3500 minutes per month.
?I've found that Alcazar Networks free toll free (tollfree.alcazarnetworks.com) works very reliably for DTMF and ANI. They had 2 outages lately though so the backup routes I've used are free.tollfree4free.com and sip.denetron.com. Both of the others also have reliable DTMF and ANI.
Regards, Jared Geiger
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On 09/30/2011 09:47 AM, Robert Johnson wrote:
Thanks for the on and offlist responses. I'm giving Alcazar a try. Despite the appearance of their website, their service seems to work quite well so far. Hopefully it continues to do so.
This may seem self-serving given the appearance of our web site, but I've found that some of the best companies in this industry lack the core competency or inclination to have a great web site. But they write good copy; bad copy is highly correlated with fly-by-nights. Those of you who do any kind of retail or mass-market product marketing may rightly disagree. But I think the cost-benefit isn't there to spend a lot of money and time on a cutting-edge web site for those selling extremely niche B2B products to a very small audience. The people who know exactly what they want will find them anyway, probably by other channels, and the vendors don't have massive funnels of eyeballs for which to optimise The best example I can think of in the lack of correlation between web site polish and quality is the case of Fred Goldstein - www.ionary.com. The site is plain, straightforward and informative, but it is not web 2.0, it doesn't have AJAXian bells and whistles, and there is no danger of CSS3 or HTML5 lurking nearby. Yet Fred needs no introduction, and is widely recognised to be one of the premier experts in this industry on all matters ILEC interconnection, PSTN regulatory, etc, etc. I think that often goes for other types of vendors, as well. Alcazar has a total addressable market of maybe a few thousand companies in the US at best. I don't think it makes any sense for them to spend a lot of time on a sexy, fetching web site, as long as the information is there. -- Alex Balashov - Principal Evariste Systems LLC 260 Peachtree Street NW Suite 2200 Atlanta, GA 30303 Tel: +1-678-954-0670 Fax: +1-404-961-1892 Web: http://www.evaristesys.com/
Alex, It's 2011. For less than thousand dollars any company can have an updated looking website - mostly based on wordpress. The website is your door to commerce. "Company websites, not social media, top source of new leads." http://www.techjournalsouth.com/2011/09/company-websites-not-social-media-to... I'm not saying you need bells and whistles, but it does need to be clean, neat and relevant. Would you shop in a run down, dirty store? - Peter On 9/30/2011 9:58 AM, Alex Balashov wrote:
On 09/30/2011 09:47 AM, Robert Johnson wrote:
Thanks for the on and offlist responses. I'm giving Alcazar a try. Despite the appearance of their website, their service seems to work quite well so far. Hopefully it continues to do so.
This may seem self-serving given the appearance of our web site, but I've found that some of the best companies in this industry lack the core competency or inclination to have a great web site. But they write good copy; bad copy is highly correlated with fly-by-nights.
Those of you who do any kind of retail or mass-market product marketing may rightly disagree. But I think the cost-benefit isn't there to spend a lot of money and time on a cutting-edge web site for those selling extremely niche B2B products to a very small audience. The people who know exactly what they want will find them anyway, probably by other channels, and the vendors don't have massive funnels of eyeballs for which to optimise
The best example I can think of in the lack of correlation between web site polish and quality is the case of Fred Goldstein - www.ionary.com. The site is plain, straightforward and informative, but it is not web 2.0, it doesn't have AJAXian bells and whistles, and there is no danger of CSS3 or HTML5 lurking nearby. Yet Fred needs no introduction, and is widely recognised to be one of the premier experts in this industry on all matters ILEC interconnection, PSTN regulatory, etc, etc.
I think that often goes for other types of vendors, as well. Alcazar has a total addressable market of maybe a few thousand companies in the US at best. I don't think it makes any sense for them to spend a lot of time on a sexy, fetching web site, as long as the information is there.
You or anybody else interested may want to have Gafachi as a backup. You can deposit $20 in your account and send only the traffic that you need to them (TF). In this case it will be free. Good luck. Oren On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Robert Johnson <fasterfourier at gmail.com>wrote:
Thanks for the on and offlist responses. I'm giving Alcazar a try. Despite the appearance of their website, their service seems to work quite well so far. Hopefully it continues to do so.
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Alex Balashov <abalashov at evaristesys.com> wrote:
+1 to Alcazar Networks as well. They are very responsive and easy to work with.
-- This message was painstakingly thumbed out on my mobile, so apologies for brevity, errors, and general sloppiness. Alex Balashov - Principal Evariste Systems LLC 260 Peachtree Street NW Suite 2200 Atlanta, GA 30303 Tel: +1-678-954-0670 Fax: +1-404-961-1892 Web: http://www.evaristesys.com/ On Sep 29, 2011, at 3:02 PM, Jared Geiger <jared at compuwizz.net> wrote:
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Robert Johnson <fasterfourier at gmail.com
wrote:
I'm looking for a SIP carrier that will provide reliable termination of toll free traffic and pass ANI info correctly (this part is important). Also I want it to be free :)
Several companies claim to provide this, who's actually using what and are you happy with it?
Low volume--currently about 3500 minutes per month.
I've found that Alcazar Networks free toll free (tollfree.alcazarnetworks.com) works very reliably for DTMF and ANI. They had 2 outages lately though so the backup routes I've used are free.tollfree4free.com and sip.denetron.com. Both of the others also have reliable DTMF and ANI.
Regards, Jared Geiger
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Thought I'd provide a follow-up for this. I've been using Alcazar for a few weeks now and have no complaints. They're about 40ms away from me via Global Crossing. No bells and whistles, but good voice quality and reliability. Our monitoring system did report a short interruption in the middle of the night last week, was probably just some sort of maintenance. I'm using my current toll termination providers as backup if Alcazar doesn't set the call up within 1.5 sec. On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Oren Yehezkely <orenyny at gmail.com> wrote:
You or anybody else interested may want to have Gafachi as a backup.
You can deposit $20 in your account and send only the traffic that you need to them (TF). In this case it will be free.
Good luck.
Oren
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Robert Johnson <fasterfourier at gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for the on and offlist responses. I'm giving Alcazar a try. Despite the appearance of their website, their service seems to work quite well so far. Hopefully it continues to do so.
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Alex Balashov <abalashov at evaristesys.com> wrote:
+1 to Alcazar Networks as well. ?They are very responsive and easy to work with.
-- This message was painstakingly thumbed out on my mobile, so apologies for brevity, errors, and general sloppiness. Alex Balashov - Principal Evariste Systems LLC 260 Peachtree Street NW Suite 2200 Atlanta, GA 30303 Tel: +1-678-954-0670 Fax: +1-404-961-1892 Web: http://www.evaristesys.com/ On Sep 29, 2011, at 3:02 PM, Jared Geiger <jared at compuwizz.net> wrote:
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Robert Johnson <fasterfourier at gmail.com> wrote:
I'm looking for a SIP carrier that will provide reliable termination of toll free traffic and pass ANI info correctly (this part is important). Also I want it to be free :)
Several companies claim to provide this, who's actually using what and are you happy with it?
Low volume--currently about 3500 minutes per month.
?I've found that Alcazar Networks free toll free (tollfree.alcazarnetworks.com) works very reliably for DTMF and ANI. They had 2 outages lately though so the backup routes I've used are free.tollfree4free.com and sip.denetron.com. Both of the others also have reliable DTMF and ANI.
Regards, Jared Geiger
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