VOIP companies
Jargon
- SIP trunking
- siptrunk.org: What Is SIP Trunking?
- - PBX with SIP-enabled trunk side
- - enterprise edge device understanding SIP
- - Internet telephony of SIP trunking service provider (Internet Telephone Service Provider [ITSP])
- PSTN
- Public switched telephone network
- SBC
- NATed LAN
- NAT is short for Network Address Translation, an Internet standard that enables a local-area network (LAN) to use one set of IP addresses for internal traffic and a second set of addresses for external traffic. A NAT box located where the LAN meets the Internet makes all necessary IP address translations.
Buffalo VOIP
- Many brands. Lots of hardware.
- I-Evolve Technology Services® provides VoIP consulting and support for businesses primarily in and around Buffalo, NY, but I-Evolve can also provide VoIP services anywhere in North America.
- Great Lakes IT Services VoIP packages offer solutions to replace or improve your current business phone system with Voice-over-IP.
Long list
- 1TouchTone
- 8x8, Inc
- AllDigitalVoice
- AT&T
- BroadVoice, Inc
- Broadvox, Ltd
- Cable One
- Cebridge Communications
- Centric Voice
- Cinergy Communications
- Clarity Telecommunications
- Comcast Phone of Kansas LLC, d/b/a Comcast Digital Phone
- CommPartners
- Convergent Networks
- Cox Kansas Telecom, LLC d/b/a Cox Communications, Inc
- DIECA Communications, Inc, d/b/a Covad Communications Company
- Eagle Communications, Inc
- Earthlink, Inc
- FonVantage
- Google, Inc.
- iConnectHere
- Level 3 Communications, LLC (wholesale service provider)
- Lightyear Network Solutions
- Maximus Telecom
- Mediacom Cable
- Midwest Connections
- My Phone Company
- Nuvio Coporation
- NuVox Communictions of Kansas, Inc
- Opex Communications, Inc
- Packet 8
- Primus Telecommunications
- Qwest Communications Corporation
- rocketVoIP
- SKT, Inc
- Skype Technologies
- SunRocket, Inc
- TelCove Investment
- Time Warner
- Verizon (Voicewing)
- ViaTalk, Inc
- VoicePulse, Inc
- VoIP Incorporated
- Vonage America, Inc
- Yahoo!, Inc
System requirements
- Provide international service (Canada) for all toll-free numbers.
- Connect to mixers in Studio A and Studio B.
- - 1-877-888-6279
- - 1-877-511-5483
- Work with RX (?) fund-drive system.
- Act as PBX for three businesses (Station of the Cross, Orthodent, Holy Family).
- Fault tolerant.
- Good support. [May need a "value-added reseller."]
Post mortem
- Talk with unsatisfactory provider. What went wrong? Has it been fixed? Can it be fixed?
Present hardware setup
Some VOIP service working already
- phone bank for fund drive (except Canada)
- Station phones?
Some things tied to PBX
- Studio A
- Studio B
- Orthodent