[cisco-voip] Wait, what? Are SIP trunk prices really that low now?

[Robert Kulagowski]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Scott Voll <svoll.voip at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm guessing that's per concurrent call.
> for me... it's still a little spendy  $720 for 24 sip sessions vs $500 for a
> t1 PRI.  and then I have to have the bandwidth also.

Sure, but that's $720 for 24 SIP sessions that don't have usage
charges on top of it.  Are you paying $0.00 for your $500 PRI for the
local and LD calls that traverse it?  Because that's what they're
offering.  I talked to one of the guys there, and after taxes, etc,
the monthly cost comes out to be about $35 per session.

As far as QoS, I remember being scared, thinking that our IP video
calls (which we run at 2Mbps) over the internet were going to be crap,
because of no QoS.  And then we actually started _doing_ video calls
over the non-QoS Internet, and didn't have any issues.

I can see the point of bandwidth-constrained locations requiring QoS,
but with multiple providers in our data center that's not going to be
an issue.

But that's me.