[ale] covad VoIP down...

[Christopher Fowler]

On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 09:55 -0500, Rob Fauls wrote:
> not sure if anyone else is running VoIP with covad, but our company
> is 
> in the process of testing their solution and it seems that their NOC
> in 
> chicago has gone down.  I was under the impression that everyone uses 
> multiple nocs for the simple reason that if one goes down they dont
> want 
> all their customers out of business.  does anyone else run covad 
> business VoIP and if so, is anyone else suffering today?

I know I'm going to start a flame war.  IMO I believe that data ppl and
voice ppl are different.  Data people are used to windows and accept
downtime.  Voice people do not.  This is why Covad is down.  I help the
PBX world do active monitoring of their switches and the mentality in
that world is totally different than the data world.  Its okay to
experience downtime in a NOC but in a phone room it is unacceptable. 

I love SIP and think it would work great on a LAN for your company.  I
still believe that the POTs conversion should take place onsite.  I have
VOIP at home and would never consider it my primary communications link.

You can still have problems with telephone lines but I would rather
place my money in that system to deliver my voice calls and in the phone
room I would deploy VOIP for my internal extensions.