[cisco-voip] opting out of local trunks in lieu of low cost long distance

[Simon, Bill]

I know there are regulations involved with doing toll-bypass over IP but 
this is the first time I've heard of someone wanting to purposefully 
incur tolls by way of VoIP...

Lelio Fulgenzi wrote:
>  
> Just wondering if anyone out there with remote sites in different 
> calling areas have opted out of local trunks in liue of low cost long 
> distance? That is, route calls local to the remote office over the WAN 
> and out the HQ trunks.
>  
> Granted this is really only available in those areas that have high 
> bandwidth to the remote site, but many educational institutions have 
> high b/w links due to research networks. 100Mbps to remote sites is not 
> unheard of and now 1Gpbs are also available.