[Serusers] VoIP Server's Phone Number Range

[Iqbal]

Yeah, I have been swinging (not literally :-)) both ways on this, and 
enum if my preference, the short digits within networks are a stop gap, 
and will be dropped if enum gets moving, however for now I guess the 3/4 
digit prefixes for each network are okay, having said that I cant see 
users really using it, in fact how many people here have interconnects, 
and actually have cross-network traffic (i.e calls/min) I know I have 
zero, and never had a request :-)

Iqbal

Daniel-Constantin Mierla wrote:

> On 04/12/05 17:36, Klaus Darilion wrote:
>
>> Daniel-Constantin Mierla wrote:
>>
>>> There is a list with some VoIP service providers, but for sure it is 
>>> not complete:
>>> http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-VOIP+Service+Providers
>>>
>>> Anyhow, some of them may not accept calls from foreign networks so 
>>> you should check if you can interconnect. Prefix routing is your 
>>> solution and I guess each provider implements its own numbering and 
>>> prefix allocation policy - I have not heard about any 
>>> standardization in this direction.
>>
>>
>>
>> The routing protocol is ENUM, but only few service providers have 
>> ENUM entries for their number ranges. The problem is that most 
>> countries are still in a "trial" state. There are also private ENUM 
>> trees to benefit from ENUM without paying for the ENUM domains (like 
>> e164.info...)
>
>
> That will be sometime in future, if ever -- depending on who and how 
> is going to control it -- there are VoIP communities across many 
> countries and would be rather complicated/expensive for the provider 
> to buy numbers from each country. Anyhow, I was talking about current 
> interconnection method, based on prefix, that none has regulated and 
> nobody had tried (afaik) to make kind of agreements to use same prefix 
> for same domain. The bad things is that the business cannot wait until 
> ENUM is adopted in all countries, so you have to live without for a 
> while and then will be pretty hard to teach your customers to adopt 
> new contact numbers and so on.
>
>>
>>
>> IMO using prefixes is PITA. You need a prefix for every SIP domain 
>> (there will be thousands soon). User has to remember all the 
>> prefixes. That does not scale. This remembers the beginning of the 
>> Internet without DNS where you had to edit the hosts file of your PC.
>>
>> Their are also other mechanisms (like Dundi for asterisk). But ENUM 
>> is the only method where the association between Internet phone 
>> numbers and E.164 phone numbers is validated by a public authority.
>
>
> Of course ENUM would be an ideal solution to this, let's see when it 
> will be globally adopted.
>
> Daniel
>
>>
>> regards,
>> klaus
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Daniel
>>>
>>>
>>> On 04/12/05 14:58, Felipe Martins wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>
>>>> I've made my first full operational SER Server, in fact there are 
>>>> too server talking to each other. When the call is not to another 
>>>> SER server, it forwards to another external server, when the 
>>>> requested number belongs to my other SER Server it go there and 
>>>> close the voip tunnel, just as usual. So, at the moment, I'm 
>>>> implementing my routing logic, in order to implement it well, i 
>>>> need all the phone ranges and their server names or IP to route all 
>>>> the calls to the right server, for example, if a user calls a 
>>>> "1213..." begging phone number, it goes to Go2Call, and so on the 
>>>> all other Phone numbers. Do anybody know where can I find a list of 
>>>> phone number ranges all over the world, I mean, every VoIP server 
>>>> has a certain range, without it my calls will be lost, and they 
>>>> will not end where they were meant to.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in Advance.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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