[ale] covad VoIP down...

[Rob Fauls]

Christopher Fowler wrote:

>On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 10:16 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:
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>>On Mon March 27 2006 10:05 am, Christopher Fowler wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>when we lived in Conyers, I had my phone through the cable. First it 
>>was MediaOne, then AT&T, then Comcast.. I only remember 2 outages, and 
>>neither one was very long, and we did have cell phones as backup.
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>I've lived in Buford since 1999.  Not one outage on POTs.  I'm not
>against VOIP.  I'm against VOIP as a primary means of communication.   I
>think it can be used as a cost effective PBX system but I believe that
>the "soft switch" needs to be on the premises of the business.  VOIP
>could be used to link other offices together but they still need a soft
>switch on their end too for regular communications.
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>A PBX is not a cheap item.  I've looked at using * in our facility but
>when I add a 4 port T1 card or whatever to the system I'm now at a price
>that is equivalent to something Nortel sells in the BCM line.  However
>if you scale the PBX the * system becomes a better value.  I think
>Nortel charges a license fee for each extra VOIP extension past a
>certain number.  This is free in *
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system is back up now...waiting on word as to what the cause of the 
problem exactly was. as far as voip goes, our system was still 
"working". while our t's went down, our phones were still going to 
voicemail or being redirected to a secondary number. so as far as the 
voip side goes, everything was fine.  for some reason, our data 
connection itself was lost, and took a long time to get it back.  when i 
know more, ill post.
-Rob