[VoiceOps] New to VoIP

[Jonathan Jones]

Hello all and pardon the naive question. I'm looking to start my own small
town based ITSP (mini vonage) with approximately 2,000 concurrencies. What
I'd like to know is, do I or don't I need a session border controller to get
this working. I was told I don't need any hardware and I could get this up
and running with software only. I don't know how true this is therefore I
decided to ask the experts.

Furthermore, would a large provider be willing to trunk my connection if it
is software only? What do you fancy? If you had to guess a cost to get
something like this up and running, would it be under $50,000.00 I don't
have much money to work with at the moment and I'm looking for someone with
more experience might do. I'm guessing I could get it all running without an
SBC and without heavy hardware or am I wrong because of DSP encoding and the
likes.

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
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