10 thoughts on “Good VOIP forums”

1. I have a question

   I am in the very early stages of convergence. We are discussing IP Telephony. We have deployed an Avaya 8300 in china and so far so good.

   The Global network is a mix of mostly Avaya with some Nortel, Alcatel, Mitel PBXs

   The question I have is how are companies determining which solution to go with.
   Is the goal to go with a Single Vendor soltuion (either all Avaya/all Cisco etc) or are you seeing a combination of Avaya/Cisco/Nortel IP Telephony soltuons in a network. We basically have 5 regions (ASPAC, Mexico, CALA, EMEA & NA) and for the most part EMEA is Alcatel, NA & ASPAC is Avaya. Does this mean EMEA should use Alcatel IP Telephony and ASPAC & NA should use Avaya as well?

   What are the disadvantage/Advantages of a Sigle Vendor or Multi Vendoer solution

   Our Guy in China told us the reason he went with Avaya is the Integration costs for Octel/Cisco was much higher then Avaya/Octel

   Comments/Past Experiences please

   Thansk in advance……On a side not I personally think from a investment standpoint Avaya & Cisco Might now look like a good long term investment. Exspecially Cisco…They have saturated the Data/Router market and now they are entering a LARGER market which is Voice PBXs……If they are a sucessful I think this could be bigger then the Data router market for them…Comments on this welcome too.

   Tom Falsetta
   CCIE (wr), CCNA, MCSE
   http://www.ttaknetworking.com/
   V 845-497-3193

   tfalsetta@yahoo.com

2. Actually, Call Termination.com (http://www.calltermination.com) is probably the most active of all the forums with a fastest growth among all the VoIP Sites.

3. Marty-

   Thanks for the (slightly self-promoting) tip!

4. Actually, you can also take a look on the http://www.voice-over-ip-forum.com

5. Visit http://www.voipproviderslist.com. More than 1000 registered forum members.

6. Did someone ever get on VoIP the disconnect reason of 23 (decimal)? What does it mean?
   Thanx

7. Our VoIP code works fine, if we tried it from a PC directly accessing the internet using a dialup modem! But the same code doesn’t work on a machine which is on LAN and having internet access through leaseline. We have port restricted NAT. Even the register request gets Time Out!!! Our KEEP_ALIVE_PORT_TIME is 5 sec. Is that bothering the VoIP working? We tried a lot on this matter, by changing that time (0.5 sec to 5 sec), but the result was the same! Is there any special precaution to be taken why making the VOIP code run from LAN? Can anybody help me out? Thanks in advance!

8. If you go to this VoIP forum link below you can also sign-up for a free subscription to Internet
   Telephony Magazine – the leading VoIP magazine covering VoIP news and reviews since 1999.
   http://voip-forum.tmcnet.com/voip-forum/forum/
   

9. The VoIP Troubleshooter web site (www.voiptroubleshooter.com) provides information and online diagnosis tools related to VoIP, and also provides a (newly added) forum.

10. Is anybody interested in building a world wide Network of small gateways, connected on one side to the Internet and on the other to the PSTN?

    Every member could share/sell termination.

    It is feasable and the investment is quite low, while the revenues could be quite high.

    Please write to me

    patrizia@worldonip.com