As a local supplier of Voip equipment here in Calgary, we typically do
not keep stock on hand as the local market is not large enough to
support and sustain it.
What we do offer though are reasonable prices, a live person to speak to
about your needs/requirements and excellent service.
If pricing is your only concern, then as with most things, online
ordering is the way to go...
When you refer to 30 - 70 lines are you referring to incoming landlines
(PRI), incoming lines via SIP or internal extensions?
We have deployed quite a number of Asterisk based solutions here in
Calgary and haven't run into any issues with number of lines - the
biggest challenge is the network itself. If your network is flawless
then no problem, but you would be amazed how many "perfect" networks
aren't all that perfect once a realtime application such as VoIP is
introduced.
Martin
Chris q wrote:
Just a heads up: The canadian voip store is still shipping from the
states as of two months ago. Even after all the fees, they were
cheaper than anywhere else for the six polycom ip 550's and the
soundstation ip 6000 I bought. They were a couple hundred dollars cheaper.
When I was looking I was looking for specific polycom stuff and I
couldn't find it here in Calgary for a reasonable price. The other
annoying thing about the two or three companies I tried was that they
all didn't have stock in Calgary, so it was basically like ordering
from an online store that happened to have a person in your
neighbourhood. you still had to wait. I wish I could remember the
company names, but it has been a couple months now.
I've used les.net <http://les.net> (sound was ok, but prepaid payment
method is annoying when you're doing it for a company) and
vocalocity.com <http://vocalocity.com> and I really like vocalocity
(they are american though). using vocalocity would kind of defeat the
purpose of using voicebuntu though, since they host the pbx system
themselves and you just point your phones at their servers.
Cheers,
Chris
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Dana Harding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
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
<http://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 <http://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?
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