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We have established trunks directly from one or more of our carriers
directly into our office phone system and now do not run much of our
own office systems over our own network explicitly to prevent this
sort of nightmare scenario from playing out. <br>
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Obviously at that point your selection in origination carriers may
become the trouble point, so I would make sure the origination
carrier is truly carrier grade, or you can publish multiple support
contact numbers which come through different carriers. <br>
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Also consider leveraging out of band communications for that
nightmare scenario where the infrastructure has experienced some
kind of critical failure and realistically your poor support team
will be unable to do anything save for act as customer punching
bags. Twitter, livechat systems and announcement webpages can all be
excellent for communicating with your customers in these scenarios.
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/12/2012 10:25 AM, Carlos Alvarez
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cite="mid:CAFn1dUHuXpbCfJ=e5gj8az0-jLxaXW1snC7X7eVi6DGasJVMCw@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">I'm curious how other small VoIP providers handle
having a fail-over for their main (support) phone number in case
their entire infrastructure is unable to take calls. I know we
all build in redundancy, but for the big what-if scenario where
nothing is available and the calls fail, you still need to take
your customer support calls.
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<div>We have one carrier who does PSTN failover, but they're far
from our primary or an ideal carrier for us. None of our major
origination providers do this.<br clear="all">
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<div>Carlos Alvarez</div>
<div>TelEvolve</div>
<div>602-889-3003</div>
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