30 Oct
2008
30 Oct
'08
5:22 p.m.
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Graham Wooden <graham(a)g-rock.net> wrote:
Yep, just making sure.
Quoting Kristian Kielhofner
<kkielhofner(a)star2star.com>om>:
+1 to never being a CLEC... :)
I bet if you were to look at those that have received subpoenas the
commonality would be CLEC status + owning/operating the gateway.
Have you ever actually received a subpoena? Are
you a CLEC? What
is your interconnection to the PSTN?
I have not directly received one, but know of folks that have. No, I am not
a CLEC (nor plan to ever be one). My connection to the PSTN is SIP directly
to the provider's SONUS switch. Isn't
your bandwidth symmetric/full duplex? How is 170kbps valid?
Client -->[~85kbps] -->device proxying audio -->[~85kbps] -->PSTN
If both of those legs come in and out on your same Internet provider leg,
well, that call is going to cost you 170kbps. Since I do run BGP across
multiple providers, I do have a fair bit of asymmetric routing, where the
client may come in on my Tier2 and then sholve the call back out on my
Tier1. Still adds up to 170kbps no matter how you slice it. But again,
since I don't run full-time audio proxing, I don't have to worry about the
bandwidth being absorbed like this anymore. Why tack on another N amout of router hops and ms to
the call if you don't
need to?
Amen!
In which case, all my customers are under 120ms (all
broadband or higher and
not all are local), pretty much all under 12 hops to me and to the PSTN.
Works fine for me and I pay a fair bit of money to have my solid internet
connections ;-)
If you are setting up media directly between your customers and your
providers media gateways, how do you know what path it takes (in
either direction)?
--
Kristian Kielhofner
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