[VoiceOps] GLBX soft switch

[Howard Hart]

And I do so love those 3 AM troubleshooting calls.

Me: "You guys aren't responding to our SIP messages, can we get a 
trouble ticket opened"
Carrier Tech Support: "Sure, what's your main trunk number?"
Me: "It's a SIP trunk, there is no main number. We have thousands of 
numbers with you guys"
CTS: "SIP, what's SIP?"
Me: "It's a VoIP connection"
CTS: "Ahh, OK. So where do I send the repairman to fix your T1 line?"
Me: "Vint Cerf's house?"

Sigh......

Hiers, David wrote:
> I like the terms "SIP Trunk" and "Virtual PRI" because:
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> 1.  It gives me mercifully short meetings with management
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> 2.  Our sales force knows how to sell those things
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> Sure, all of us here know that we deal in multimedia sessions ("A 
> multimedia session is a set of multimedia senders and receivers and 
> the data streams flowing from senders to receivers.  A multimedia 
> conference is an example of a multimedia session."), but we killed 
> entire crops of sales guys trying get those words to come out of their 
> mouths in the right order.
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> David Hiers
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> CCIE (R/S, V), CISSP
> ADP Dealer Services
> 2525 SW 1st Ave.
> Suite 300W
> Portland, OR 97201
> o: 503-205-4467
> f: 503-402-3277
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org 
> [_mailto:voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org_] On Behalf Of Ric Messier
> Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 7:05 AM
> To: Alex Balashov
> Cc: voiceops at voiceops.org
> Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] GLBX soft switch
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> On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Alex Balashov wrote:
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> > SIP trunking simply refers to a static arrangement of IP endpoints for
> > the purpose of setting up multiple sessions between them in order to
> > pass traffic.  It can either be access (for a customer) or traffic of
> > an intra-industrial nature, such as private SIP peering between
> > carriers or ITSPs.
> >
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> I'm familiar with what SIP trunking is. You're right that it's imprecise.
> However, the carrier/service provider I used to work for did make a 
> distinction, as I recall. Ultimately, the mechanism is the same or at 
> least similar (different facilities may be used).
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> Ric
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