Canadian SIP provider

Posted by: dr_dos

Canadian SIP provider - 04/07/2012 11:33

A Canadian acquaintance would like to run his own SIP-based PBX in his company. He's apparently having a hard time finding a good SIP provider, as most of them offer only hosted solutions or virtual PBXs. Since he'd like to run his own hardware in-house, that's not what he needs.

I found http://voicenetwork.ca/voip/voip.php?page=3
Are they any good, or are there others out there someone could recommend?

Cheers,

-Peter
Posted by: hybrid8

Re: Canadian SIP provider - 04/07/2012 12:09

Has he looked at http://voip.ms yet?
Posted by: dr_dos

Re: Canadian SIP provider - 05/07/2012 10:25

Originally Posted By: hybrid8
Has he looked at http://voip.ms yet?


I don't know. Do you have any experience with this provider?
Is it feasible to use an US SIP provider or are there any restrictions?
Posted by: hybrid8

Re: Canadian SIP provider - 05/07/2012 12:30

Both Mark and myself are using voip.ms - I also have a few friends using their services, however none of us are using our own PBX. I don't imagine it's any more difficult setting up using voip.ms versus most anyone else in that regard however. And they do have wikis available for a number of different setups, as well as a somewhat active customer base.
Posted by: robricc

Re: Canadian SIP provider - 05/07/2012 12:34

We have used voip.ms (in New York) as a failover for our T1 in the past. They work when Verizon doesn't and nobody in my office was able to detect a difference in call quality.

We were using an in-house Asterisk server. Setup with voip.ms was as painless as can be.
Posted by: mlord

Re: Canadian SIP provider - 07/07/2012 23:26

Yup, voip.ms is the defacto standard for us Canucks! Despite the exotic domain suffix, they're based in Montreal, Canada, with servers in lots of more useful locales (including London, England).

They claim very good interworking with customer SIP-based PBXs, and it's pretty easy to sign up and try them out for just a few dollars.

Cheers
Posted by: dr_dos

Re: Canadian SIP provider - 21/07/2012 17:27

The PBX is up and running, thanks for the info guys.

-Peter