[voip] Sip Trunk Providers

[glennda]

Anybody got any recommendations for SIP trunk providers? Currently looking at setting up an Asterix PBX and using SIP trunks (with PSTN failover).

 

Anybody people have used and would recommend?

[glennda]

*BUMP*

[DT2]

I've worked with Tempura in the past......

 

Tempura Communications | Networks | Videoconferencing | Voice

 

DT

[glennda]

Will contact them - i have already contacted a few people

[benjie]

Voicehost might be worth a look at, there is no inbuilt failover but you can set custom destinations via a web interface.

UK VoIP Internet Phone Service - Free VoIP Calls, Virtual PBX

[glennda]

Voicehost might be worth a look at, there is no inbuilt failover but you can set custom destinations via a web interface.

UK VoIP Internet Phone Service - Free VoIP Calls, Virtual PBX

 

That looks more like hosted VOIP then just sip trunks to our on-site pbx.

 

Unless i'm being think and missing it (which is highly likely today!)

[Willott]

We use Gradwell (for IAX2 trunks - but they also do SIP). Not had a massive amount of issues.

[glennda]

We use Gradwell (for IAX2 trunks - but they also do SIP). Not had a massive amount of issues.

 

Have contacted them.

 

Toby

[benjie]

Voicehost, they do hosted PBX but you have to pay for it. They do give you SIP trunks, to link to your PBX.

[glennda]

Have spoken with a few various suppliers

 

Cheers guys!

[Geoff]

I use OrbTalk, and I run a call centre

 

SIP Trunks | Orbtalk VoIP

[glennda]

Will give them a call aswell!

 

Out of interest what PBX do you use?

[Geoff]

Two Asterisk based servers. One running FreePBX for day to day office stuff. The other runs the call centre on VICIDial

[glennda]

Ah cool - I'm currently building an astrisk box to play with - do you use any wireless Dect handsets?

 

http://www.edugeek.net/forums/netbooks-pda-phones/90114-wireless-handsets.html

[Geoff]

Telesales use Xlite 3 with usb headsets. Offices have Polycom Soundpoint IP550 desk phones.

[glennda]

Ok thats cool. I did look at the IP 550 but they are a touch to much for us - we are looking at some Cisco SPA 501G For the department offices and Still undecided on the offices possibly Yealink T28P but not 100% sure.

[Geoff]

Mine are all second user

[glennda]

Mine are all second user

 

Hmm didn't think it that - will investigate!

[MatthewL]

Just to bump this topic, has anyone found a good SIP provider?

[glennda]

Intrinsic technology where very helpful when i spoke with them - although I never fully finished the setup as I left before I finished it!

[Millgate]

Just to bump this topic, has anyone found a good SIP provider?

 

I can help you out with this Matt. We partner with Intrinsic technology so if you let me have the details, I'll give you a quote

[MatthewL]

Thanks Luke. I was just curious to see if there were any good ones out there.

[glennda]

I can help you out with this Matt. We partner with Intrinsic technology so if you let me have the details, I'll give you a quote

 

I've only just seen this! I got mine through Millgate when i did it! Should have mentioned that! Sorry Luke

[CAWJames]

We use a company called Dalycom, they resell Gamma trunks. We started with 5 lines plus around 20 DDI's plus CLI flexibility, so we can present pretty much any number on the outgoing call. Each DDI was 69p, and the rental on the lines wasn't a lot. In our first production month for one of our satellite centres, running 6 phones, our first bill was a shade over £100, as there was a one time fee for the connection for the endpoint(ie where the incoming calls point to) and the couple of months after that barely push £50 a month including calls. No brainer really, and we are planning to push it out over all 5 centres during this year.

 

For phones we hit a popular auction site, and got some cheap grandstream budgetones for a tenner each for classrooms(think cheap nasty, but good enough for a incidental phone) and £30 each for a load of Cisco 7940G phones with psu's for the desks(we bought 30).

 

As we phase out our ISDN systems, this system will be brought in, and we can get rid of our non geographic 0844 numbers too, as the sip DDI's are portable, where BT DDI's are usually tied to an exchange(we moved 2 centres into one, 2 miles from one, and 15 from the other, all the same std code, but 3 different exchanges, no chance to keep any range of numbers, hence the 0844). Also thinking of tying it into Exchange and Lync, for a truly awesome internal conferencing/communication system. Got to love EES and the enterprise cal pack!

 

Oh and make sure you have the bandwidth and the stability for multiple phones, we have 10/10 leased lines at most of the centres, and 100/100 at the main one, so not really a problem for us.

 

If you have any questions let me know.

 

James