Hi Peter, Asterisk - The Future of Telephony (http://www.asteriskdocs.org/) and http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/ are good general resources. I'm not aware of any newsgroups, but the mailing lists hosted by Digium (http://www.asterisk.org/support/mailing-lists) are usually pretty good - and some of the participants have experience with setups larger than the size you are looking at.
There are a few references suggesting that freeswitch is more stable with more simultaneous calls than Asterisk - if this is the case you might be able to use fewer servers to host 50-70 lines. http://www.freeswitch.org/node/117 If your implementation will be working with a lot of SIP traffic - some SIP Proxies might be desired. Not sure who in Calgary is happy to sell hardware directly to end-users, for online shopping Voip Supply (http://www.voipsupply.com/home.php) has a good selection. I was pretty annoyed a couple years ago when I ordered some phones from their "Canadian" version (http://www.canadianvoipstore.com/home.php) and they shipped the product from the states. This meant an extra long delay at the border plus the requsite fees (thank you CBSA). Lesson learned: My mistake to assume "Canadian" in the name means assets are actually in country. This may or may not still be the case. My few transactions with www.voipdepot.ca have been excellent. (haven't had to RMA anything - so can't speak on how they handle that yet) Not sure about local SIP-based providers - let me know if you find any (edit: check out broadconnect.ca as per below). My understanding of exactly how the process works is fuzzy - but you should be able to choose your number from the entire selection of what a provider has in stock, and they might be able to find and purchase a desired number for you on demand if it's available. You will probably have to talk/e-mail a human to do it. Some services let you pick from a limited selection of numbers with no human intervention. Providers I came across when trying to find Canadian ones are below. (some are American, I don't remember seeing any European ones. Locations are based on contact address: can't really trust an area code with a company who makes a living by having phone numbers in multiple locations) http://www.voicenetwork.ca/voipservice.html (Ontario) http://billing.atlasvoice.com/billing/index.php (Toronto) http://www.unlimitel.ca/temp/services/voip_services/voip_ala_carte.html (Ontario) http://les.net/products/product_ipdidcanada.php (Manitoba?) http://www.inphonex.com/rates/ http://fonosip.com/english/plan-numeros.html http://www.vitelity.com/index.php?p=retailserv http://www.digitalcon.ca/ http://www.iristel.ca/pricing.php (Ontario) http://www.easyofficephone.com/pricing (Ontario) http://www.voicemeup.com/services.html (Quebec) http://www.broadconnect.ca/contact_us.html (Says they have an office in Calgary) http://www.voipinvite.com/ (Ontario) http://www.acanac.ca/ http://www.didww.com/ http://www.bbvoice.ca/rateplans_business.php https://www.nexvortex.com/PublicPages/services.aspx http://www.nufone.net/pre-paid-voip/ http://www.voicemailtel.com/products-services/virtual-phone-service/virtual-phone-service.html#tollfreerates (ontario) Regards, Dana Harding ----- Original Message ----- > I would like to learn more about VOIP and I am planning on setting up an > Asterisk box ( VoiceBuntu ) > Any suggestions regarding Canadian/Calgary based providers? > ( I am looking at link2voip - suggested on this list earlier this week) > > Does anyone know a provider were you can pick your last 4 digits? > > Anyone deployed a VOIP system for 50 to 70 lines? _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
