[cisco-voip] Providing phone service in Mumbai and Johannesburg

[Matthew Saskin]

Aman - sounds like my setup exactly...

To answer your question Robert, I'm under the impression that the rules 
are still as Aman states - can't have local PSTN connected to an IP 
network that extends outside the local area.

-matt

Aman Chugh wrote:
> CM cluster in Texas, Remote office in Chennai, India . We have ipsec vpn 
> on which we do voice and RTT is around 280 - 325 ms. We have never had 
> delayed dial tone. In India You can not to interconnect between PSTN and 
> IP so we can not have local PSTN connection drop on the same ip network 
> to Texas. IP phones in chennai do not have the ablitiy to call local 
> PSTN ,it more of Closed User group, and 90 % of the support offices use 
> this with calls queued in US.
>  
> Aman
>  
> On 7/16/07, *Robert Kulagowski* <bob at smalltime.com 
> <mailto:bob at smalltime.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Matthew Saskin wrote:
>      > I should clarify - in both of my previous examples there were quite 
> 
>      > bit of calls traversing the WAN, hence the quality reference.
>      >
>      > If you have local dial-tone in all these cases, I have yet to see
>     any
>      > issues in my experience other than the aformentioned delayed dial
>     tone -
>      > all sites are totally usable with local dial being provided.
> 
>     Yes, I'll be providing local dial tone at each site; as far as legally,
>     I remember that India used to be a big deal with telecomms, going so far
>     as to "two phones on the desk".  I read a white paper on cisco.com
>     <http://cisco.com>
>     talking about how they managed to do away with that, but since we're
>     not
>     a multi-billion dollar organization, I don't know that _we'd_ be allowed
>     to just have a single phone on the desk.  Anyone know for sure what the
>     landscape out there looks like now?
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