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A trunk line simply a phone line available to connect to the
abela2006 ...
A trunk line simply a phone line available to connect to the outside world from an phone system. A typical office has a ratio of about 1 trunk per 3 users, so an office of 60 people would have 20 inbound/outbound lines available to use for the 60 staff.
A typical business T1/PRI (i.e. digital) has 24 channels, 23 of which carry voice and the 24th carries data (caller ID etc.), so if you've got T1 for voice you've effectively got 23 lines available for outbound/inbound calls.
We've got a T1, but our LD rates are relatively high ($0.068 interstate) compared to Vonage. Started experimenting with Vonage using a separate trunk 'group' (3 lines with "all you can eat" domestic LD) on our phone switch. Once we got it programmed correctly, it automatically grabs one of these 3 lines for LD calls. If all 3 are being used, it grabs a channel on the T1/PRI.
On top of all this we're running site to site Voip with our phone switch. I'm currently on a military base on the other side of the world but I'm able to make phone calls to the U.S. by connecting directly to our phone switch in the U.S. via Voip, which then places outbound calls on either the LD trunk, or the PRI.
Not the most elegent solution, but so far it's worked great and this will literally save us +$1k/month.
That said, I'm wondering if/when some of these larger PBX providers (Cisco, Nortel, ShoreTel, Avaya, etc.) are going to start forming partnerships with Voip providers so this is built into their systems. I see that Linksys already has a SoHO system that does this (though it doesn't connect to vonage).
Given that Linksys is owned by Cisco, and Linksys provides the hardware for Vonage, it would seem that there might be an interesting marriage there. Gotta wonder if some exec at Cisco isn't looking at acquiring Vonage (for the connection to the CLECs, etc.) and begin building this into the routers/phone systems they already sell.
With Cisco powering a large % of the internet, seems they could immediately become a major competing force not only with the Baby Bells in the U.S., but with telco providers all over the world.
Read The Full Thread: Vonage for Business Trunks ... How to set QoS
• We're using a vonage box to provide two trunks lines that are connected to our PBX
• I expect your firewall is more sophisticated than anything I've used, but there
• sorry- but could u tell me what a "trunk line" is?
• http://www.vonage-forum.com/ftopic10794.html
• uccprince: Very insightful. Thank you.
• dgtrask
Thanks for the link to the other thread. I hadn't seen that one. Unfortunately
• >>>Can I use a packet sniffer or something to determine if this is really
uccprince posted "abela2006 ...
A trunk line simply a phone line available to connect to the" on 04/27/2006 |
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